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Parental Control in Linux?
So.. I came here to ask what kind of genius goes and develops a Parental Control platform for iCrap (Apple) products, which is built on Linux... without releasing said Parental Control platform on Li...
JTLong wrote:
SO.. now I'm digging around the forum here, and seeing a lot of people saying that Parental Control is busted anyway. Is it busted?Parental controls are not "busted". They still work as they always have. What has changed is the way you get at them.
Netgear has moved away from using the Netgear Genie on mobile devices to manage routers and has "updated" firmware so that you now have to use the Nighthawk App.
This was part of a shift to sell things like Circle and Armor to customers. These cost money and offer much finer control over what a router does. That includes more sophisticated parental controls in Circle.
To use the older style of Parental controls you can use the router's graphical user interface (GUI) or the desktop genie app for your operating system. Windows or Mac. Other controls take you to here:
But don't expect much. Parental controls are, and always have been, basic. Anyone who is nerdy enough to be into Linux is likely to be disappointed.
JTLong wrote:
SO.. now I'm digging around the forum here, and seeing a lot of people saying that Parental Control is busted anyway. Is it busted?
Parental controls are not "busted". They still work as they always have. What has changed is the way you get at them.
Netgear has moved away from using the Netgear Genie on mobile devices to manage routers and has "updated" firmware so that you now have to use the Nighthawk App.
This was part of a shift to sell things like Circle and Armor to customers. These cost money and offer much finer control over what a router does. That includes more sophisticated parental controls in Circle.
To use the older style of Parental controls you can use the router's graphical user interface (GUI) or the desktop genie app for your operating system. Windows or Mac. Other controls take you to here:
But don't expect much. Parental controls are, and always have been, basic. Anyone who is nerdy enough to be into Linux is likely to be disappointed.
THANK YOU! That is a clear and succinct answer, and I appreciate it! ..especially these days.
I'm sure lots and lots of people would argue that having Netgear muck around and pull their tools out of the router is 'breaking them'.
Personally, I've got zero interest in paying Netgear for services. They're actually trying to convince me that the router I just bought off of Amazon new.. was pre-owned, and my warranty was expired before I got it. ..but they'll happily support it for $230 for 3 years!
NOPE.
I was considering hacking it and adding one of the open source GUIs due to that fact. I actually already use OpenDNS to filter stuff for my kids, so.. I don't see ANY sense in paying the clowns at Netgear for the priviledge. ACTUALLY.. somebody should tell Cisco what they're doing. I've got a funnty feeling that Cisco would be more than happy to sue Netgear out of existence once and for all.
I think you've tipped the scales for me. I'm going to go ahead and start figuring out which FOSS GUI is more stable on this exact router and just get all of the network services I could ever want, WITHOUT the clowns at Netgear trying to charge me and log my activities.
Thanks again, really appreciate it!
JTLong wrote:
Personally, I've got zero interest in paying Netgear for services.
That makes at least two of us. But it does seem to be the way the industry wants to go. It doesn't sell hardware any more, it charges a subscription for a service that runs on that hardware.
With software suppliers doing the same thing, you and I will soon be seen as dinosaurs.
Then again, some people need protecting from themselves.