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I saw a post on r/parentalcontrols a while ago stating that Family Link used up a lot of mobile data while a family was on a trip whose data was capped at a hard limit.

Also, if the Dom uses their dashboard to delete the sub's profile, instead of following the intended procedure for uninstalling, it completely makes the device unusable until the parent password is provided.

And for some more experiences lately:

• On August 15, the first username mentioned in the body of this post started using my Samsung child account again, after backing up important information following someone else's app unexpectedly resetting the phone. Also, Samsung Browser blocked the state lottery site, which isn't a huge deal because other browsers aren't affected.
• On the 17th, I got to block someone's porn who I hadn't talked to in three months. To save a real-life relationship on the sub's next meetup, which happened on the 19th, I provided an uninstallation password for Salfeld when I woke up that day. Luckily, the account only had two people on it, so the risk of account misuse was lower.
• Past midnight today, I did the opposite: force-feeding someone else with porn. This one was the most interesting one to me because I reused old code that was saved in my private GitLab commit history and I remembered the code ran an XML query that resulted in porn unexpectedly; the image files are seemingly random uploads and the output is deterministic, meaning it's the same every time.
  • Ironically, when I wrote the code originally, I expected 10–20% of the output to be NSFW and not 80–100%, and I wasn't old enough to see such back then so I quickly reverted back to the previous version.
  • I didn't add parental controls to the computer because they've told me they reset the PC before and weren't too into it, although I was thinking of running reagentc /disable in an elevated command prompt, but I also mentioned reinstalling in the same conversation which would've made the controls ineffective anyway. However, I also got to play around with the account for a bit and send a chat message to myself; that felt nice.
• Shortly afterward, the person controlling my PC asked me to grab an output from the browser console to send back. I did so, then I went to sleep, noticed EduGuard updated itself later today, and outlook.cloud.microsoft no longer had important images censored randomly. I also thank the controller for increasing the time limit for YouTube from 30 minutes to 3 hours, as I needed it for my studies. Speaking of code, for my part, I offered to review it should the extension that comes with EduGuard get rejected.
• Later today, within the last couple of hours as I'm writing this, I blocked the porn with the first person again, but with Canopy this time, because the VPN Mode on Salfeld filtered every image in Reddit, including our own chats, for some reason.

Remember u/Paraculus455's 'Building my "Parental control" app !'?

I can't share the exe I'm testing with any of you, and it's only been less than two hours so this isn't a comprehensive review, but I noticed I can immediately remove the controls after entering the pairing code in, pressing close, and clicking the tiny text saying something along the lines of "Yes, quit EduGuard" 😅

Also, every image in outlook.office365.com that's larger than an icon is blocked, even non-NSFW ones.

Mine was an app glitching or my finger skipping the screen like a rock in the water, and accidentally enabling forced location to someone who didn't want it. To make matters worse, the app I tried didn't let me disable it afterward, and a screenshot of the coordinates were saved in Reddit's Persistent Messaging.

I think it gave me a different login screen, either they upgraded the servers and then quickly rolled back, or thought I was a scraper bot and gave me a sign-in with Google button and some text that didn't load (might be due to requesting desktop site and then back to mobile). It's been fast lately.

Edit: It turns out I was connected to 2.4g and not 5g the whole time lol

Please send me an unblock request for the apps you need if this is affecting you!

• 8 Ball Pool (Android)
• Amazon Alexa (iOS)
• Amazon Prime Video (iOS)
• AnyDesk Remote Desktop (iOS)
• Apple Music (Android)
• Bank of America Mobile Banking (Android)
• Brawl Stars (Android)
• Call of Duty®: Mobile - Day of Reckoning (Android)
• Disney+ (Android)
• Duo Mobile (iOS)
• eufy (iOS)
• FIFA Soccer (Android)
• Find My (iOS)
• Google Authenticator (Android)
• Google Drive (Android)
• Google Home (Android)
• Google Play Movies & TV (Android)
• Google Sheets (Android)
• Hulu: Stream TV shows & movies (iOS)
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary (iOS)
• Meta AI - Vibes & AI Glasses (Android)
• Moonlight Game Streaming (Android)
• My Verizon (Android)
• Netflix (iOS & Android)
• Photomath (iOS)
• Roblox (iOS)
• Samsung Pass (Android)
• Samsung Pay Stub (Android)
• Samsung Smart Switch Mobile (Android)
• Schwab Mobile (iOS)
• Shipt Shopper (Android)
• Square Point of Sale: Payment (Android)
• Strava: Run, Bike, Walk (iOS)
• Voice Mail (Android)
• Wells Fargo Mobile® (iOS)

Disclaimer: I am aware that most of us here are not lawyers and are not qualified to provide legal advice. This would've gone in r/legal, but I don't want to accidentally expose non-consenting people.

As Murphy's law states, "anything that can go wrong will go wrong." How was I supposed to know it would apply here?

To clarify, Google Cloud was never used to host the email infrastructure; AI Mode misinterpreted that part. (Also, please ignore the part about the Salfeld Terms of Service, support didn't seem to mind.) The Mail eXchanger (MX) records in the domain's DNS were set to SimpleLogin at the time of password reset. The records were changed to ImprovMX to preserve email header integrity when forwarding using the Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) and to support the correct pointer (PTR) records needed for the Hurricane Electric IPv6 Sage t-shirt. They changed again - this time, to Forward Email - to allow mistyped emails from any sender to redirect to the most likely recipient for a cheaper price. It would've been free, but payment was required because the domain registration was last updated less than 90 days ago (why?).

If you're the one who paid for Forward Email and something happens, I'll do my best to refund you. (My original plan was to go on a different Reddit account and astroturf a generic community with an undisclosed advertisement by asking a question as to how my email provider autocorrected a misspelled domain knowing that computers operate under exact string matches, but I decided not to do that because I know Reddit Support has a specialized form to report astroturfing, after that person had paid.)

The issue is that data protection and other legal frameworks can be strict and they don't always understand your intentions. I used WhereGoes to follow the redirect chain for the link in this post because the share[.]google domain is banned sitewide. These issues have not been enforced against me yet, and no policymaker has contacted me about this ever, but I feel like transferring domain ownership to Mail.com eventually. They should be the rightful owners of a brand protection asset, and that has been my plan ever since the time right after I finished installing Salfeld that day.

In other words, as far as I'm aware, email services based in the European Union generally don't want a misspelled domain being forwarded to a server where the assigned data controller is an unauthorized entity.

I've noticed and quickly enabled it on one account, not on the other yet. They were both in my real country when the feature rolled out, which may or may not be the country in my last post about the same topic.

So now lockdown will be even tighter as I assume we'll both have to communicate in real time to uninstall, considering the uninstalling process requires me to retype in the login form.

Ignore the flair, apparently I had to provide one.

To clarify, the title refers to flags by programs like Windows Defender, Malwarebytes, etc.

Throughout the times I was chatting about parental controls, I've always wanted to ensure I was talking to the same person when something sounded too unreasonable or suspicious, especially when many of you here also do account play/blackmail. If someone has to sift back through chats to answer basic questions like their phone model and time zone, I can understand they're busy once, but many times? That can sound more suspicious unless you're really busy, such as moving out, where prior communication helps with that. When I ask these questions, I try to avoid confirmation bias, although I've once asked "Are we still in the same time zone?" because I was confident the other side would know their own time zone. Communicating across time zones is useful for scheduling international meetings and "It's 10:49 PM for (this person)" often shows in DMs of an unrelated Slack workspace I'm in, which is quite helpful.

Another example of avoiding confirmation bias was a time when a sub logged into their phone before taking it to the repair shop to get it fixed. In case the session cookies were extracted from memory and forwarded to a remote scammer who doesn't have physical access to the phone, I asked for the last three characters of the serial number, which was on my Samsung child account and the funny thing is, that person didn't realize I had it even though I specified I was given device information previously. Was I too vague? Maybe. Detectives use the same skills during investigations, too.

Also, digital literacy and programming skills tie into logical thinking and deduction.