2026-09-20 23:15 UTC
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@cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-09-21 02:30
depending on your router, couldn’t you do this at that level? a combination of public dns (dns4eu) or adguard filter lists? you could create two wifi networks, one controlled one not; most routers let you block whole services too like tiktok, etc
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@q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 2026-09-21 06:58
Not a perfect solution, but I use NextDNS which has profiles, and can set allowed services and times of day for them, Online Games, Video Streaming etc. This is set in the phone’s DNS setting so works via WiFi or cellular. I’ve started to use the excellent DNS Toggle on my phone to quickly enable/disable it for the really annoying sites that block ad blockers etc. In terms of app control itself, I still use Family Link begrudgingly as well like you for Android phones. I access it via the web page which thankfully still works so I don’t have to have the Google app installed.
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@ag10n@lemmy.world 2026-09-21 00:20
Overkill, otherwise there’s parental controls built-in to iOS/Android github.com/fleetdm/fleet
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@useless007@lemmy.zip 2026-09-22 03:25
For straight up app control, timelimit does a far bit of what your asking.
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@Mio@feddit.nu 2026-09-21 21:53
What is family link? Active directory control for Android?
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@altphoto@lemmy.today 2026-09-22 03:36
OMG you gotta look at this: And Nah, man. The answer is kids don’t need to be on the internet. They need to not be on the internet or on a data plan until they go to college and they gotta pay for that service.
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@philpo@feddit.org 2026-09-22 05:55
I am not 100% sure it is available in English, but have a look at KiSi (Salfeld). Imho the best parental control app - while it is not free it is run by a small German company (I had very delightful contact with the founder), falls under the GDPR, offers very flexible scenarios, a windows client that offers roaming, various options to lock down the internet (whitelist/blacklist both manually or curated), reporting (what webpages are consumed, which are blocked, what apps are used how long). Times can be set per group and both by the time of the day and by usages times (e.g. this group can always be used, this can only be used during the day and this group can only be used weekday afternoons and weekend all day but only for 2h per week across the PC and the smartphone). It also allows requesting access/more usage times via a “parents Version” of the app. It’s not self hosted, it currently does not support Linux, but after testing basically everything on the market I accepted that one. Funny enough now eldest has asked for the already massively reduced access(no social media, only limited Youtube, mainly wikipedia and similar sites whitelisted) to be blocked during certain hours of the day (and their PC access blocked as well - which is a different beast as we use FreeIPA and Fedora) so they have 90min of focus time for homework.