Another nail in the coffin for free parental controls

Checking on the instructions earlier today, I stumbled across this:

 

The Live Parental Control service based on OpenDNS will no longer be supported on Netgear devices as of December 31, 2021.

Effective April 1st, 2021, Netgear will remove support for Live Parental Controls from the Netgear genie app and from updated versions of their firmware. Customers can continue to use OpenDNS for content and security filtering by directly setting up an account at https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security.

 

That message appears on the entry page for OpenDNS and Parental Controls:

 

https://netgear.opendns.com/sign_in.php

 

Netgear has made it harder and harder to find, set up and use Parental Controls – it wants people to pay for Circle –  so this isn't unexpected news. You have been warned.