Contrary to what some may think about parents control, it does not solve all problems. It is true that it makes it possible to impose limits in terms of use to prevent children from spending too much time on their smartphone, but is far from being a perfect solution. Because as with other devices, they manage to avoid them. Tech & Co explains how to know if your child avoids the limitations of the screens that has established it.
Various derivation methods
Young people resort to various tools and stratagems to overcome parents’ control, as indicated by the APPANT, the site that provides “reference points to help their children” in their use of screens.
To start, they can simply change the time of your smartphone to frustrate the limits in terms of time, which are based on the time. Just looking at the moment on your child’s phone, you can know if you have chosen it.
Minors can also create other user accounts to escape restrictions and use your smartest phone. Therefore, it can be useful to verify if they do not have a second direction of Gmail, so as not to supervise in the family link, for example.
Another problem: the limitations that are generally solved by application or type of applications, it is enough for your child to find another capable of omitting a specific block. If you cannot install a game on Google Play Store, you may be able to access it through a browser, for example, which often serves as the main door. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to what the child does in the browser he uses.
Even more complicated, children can a virtual private network (VPN) to access websites or other services that their parents have blocked because it allows them to avoid geographical restrictions and content filters by masking the IP address. It may be more difficult to know if your child uses a VPN, but some signs can put the chip in your ear, such as the fact that unexpected applications appear on your smartphone, says the Internet NGO matters.
Source: BFM TV
