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Peep_Show said:
The Sandia Mountains acted as a barrier for the great cold wave and it whooshed off east to the plains, thusly avoiding the ABQ area. This side of the mountains it is clear and 38 at present. On the other side of the hill, Santa Rosa, NM is 10 degrees and Tucumcari is a mere 5 degrees. Brrr....
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Well aren’t you the lucky one! That’s interesting and we’ll have coffee on your porch today! :gig
 
As you know, I've been complaining about how invasive the phone apps are. I'm not just concerned about him having, and using his phone for everything, when he's away from his computer. In addition, I've been concerned about the kids downloading, and playing games on our "last year's model" phones. No, they're not hooked into our plan, so they don't make calls, but they ARE hooked into wi-fi, so the "smart" part of it works. Yes, the parental controls are on, but nowadays the parental controls are more limited than they used to be.

Yesterday, the youngest grand was playing one of her games, and she began yelling for mama. There were naked people on her phone. Yes, parental controls do tend to work for content, but not for ads. It was an ad for a porn site. Dh wasn't here at the time, so he didn't see it with his own eyes, so when we told him, he pooh poohed it off. He made it sound like there probably wasn't any nudity, and we're just prudes, OR making it all up. Dd # 1 played the game for awhile, but couldn't get it to duplicate. Aha! It may have some face type recognition. We got the oldest grand to play the game. Suddenly, a gruesome ad popped up regarding suicide, and killing oneself. Grandpa cleared the ad, then played the game. Nothing. Ok, get oldest grand. Yup, shortly the suicide ad popped up again. While the ads may be random, or it was coincidence, they do seem to be triggered more by a facial recognition software, at least enough to distinguish children from adults. Yes, it seems to be targeting children on purpose.

Dh witnessed the suicidal ad, so he began working to find out what was going on. 1. Our Ubiquity antennae system just updated. Through it, there were strict parental controls, which blocked this type content, even in ads. With the update, they removed the parental controls. They have a multitude of customers complaining about it. 2. Ticktock was loading, even though it was supposed to be blocked. There was another app, The Galaxy Store, that was bypassing the block, and installing it. Even after deleting Ticktock, it would re-load. Took out The Galaxy Store app. Put a block, then deleted Ticktock. Dh thinks it was trying to re-load itself again, SO he activated another parental control protocol.

The other protocol means the youngest grand has to log into it, to access any of her games, then a message for permission is sent to the parent's phone. It gives the details on which apps are active. When he initialized the other protocol, he permanently blocked Ticktock. All of a sudden, it blocked all apps on both phones. He had to plug it into his computer, and fix it, to get the phones working again. He thinks it's fixed now, and the child is safe to play her games. I told him to keep an eye out, and be sure to go through EVERYTHING again in a month. It's been my experience, that when you try to shut off, or delete things that the phone doesn't want you to, it will do an update, and restore everything to how it was before.

He's not objecting to the kids playing on their laptops, and leaving the phones, and tablets alone for now, until we can ensure their online safety. Yes, we have more knowledge, and more control over their laptops, so their laptops ARE much safer.
 
getaclue said:
As you know, I've been complaining about how invasive the phone apps are. I'm not just concerned about him having, and using his phone for everything, when he's away from his computer. In addition, I've been concerned about the kids downloading, and playing games on our "last year's model" phones. No, they're not hooked into our plan, so they don't make calls, but they ARE hooked into wi-fi, so the "smart" part of it works. Yes, the parental controls are on, but nowadays the parental controls are more limited than they used to be.

Yesterday, the youngest grand was playing one of her games, and she began yelling for mama. There were naked people on her phone. Yes, parental controls do tend to work for content, but not for ads. It was an ad for a porn site. Dh wasn't here at the time, so he didn't see it with his own eyes, so when we told him, he pooh poohed it off. He made it sound like there probably wasn't any nudity, and we're just prudes, OR making it all up. Dd # 1 played the game for awhile, but couldn't get it to duplicate. Aha! It may have some face type recognition. We got the oldest grand to play the game. Suddenly, a gruesome ad popped up regarding suicide, and killing oneself. Grandpa cleared the ad, then played the game. Nothing. Ok, get oldest grand. Yup, shortly the suicide ad popped up again. While the ads may be random, or it was coincidence, they do seem to be triggered more by a facial recognition software, at least enough to distinguish children from adults. Yes, it seems to be targeting children on purpose.

Dh witnessed the suicidal ad, so he began working to find out what was going on. 1. Our Ubiquity antennae system just updated. Through it, there were strict parental controls, which blocked this type content, even in ads. With the update, they removed the parental controls. They have a multitude of customers complaining about it. 2. Ticktock was loading, even though it was supposed to be blocked. There was another app, The Galaxy Store, that was bypassing the block, and installing it. Even after deleting Ticktock, it would re-load. Took out The Galaxy Store app. Put a block, then deleted Ticktock. Dh thinks it was trying to re-load itself again, SO he activated another parental control protocol.

The other protocol means the youngest grand has to log into it, to access any of her games, then a message for permission is sent to the parent's phone. It gives the details on which apps are active. When he initialized the other protocol, he permanently blocked Ticktock. All of a sudden, it blocked all apps on both phones. He had to plug it into his computer, and fix it, to get the phones working again. He thinks it's fixed now, and the child is safe to play her games. I told him to keep an eye out, and be sure to go through EVERYTHING again in a month. It's been my experience, that when you try to shut off, or delete things that the phone doesn't want you to, it will do an update, and restore everything to how it was before.

He's not objecting to the kids playing on their laptops, and leaving the phones, and tablets alone for now, until we can ensure their online safety. Yes, we have more knowledge, and more control over their laptops, so their laptops ARE much safer.
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Those kids are lucky to have you guys that know how to keep them safe. I have grandkids and I appreciate the heads up. I may not know how to fix it but I could pull the plug until someone can.
 

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