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by ilidur 17 days ago
Settings -> time management -> short feed limits -> 0 minutes
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It took some digging but I found that setting on browser. Thank you. I'd love a big toggle for "brain fucking" that you could just set to off.
And of course these settings do nothing if he just opens any browser and watches YouTube logged off.
New Commodore flip phone - has google maps and whatsapp for calls and video, otherwise a dumb phone.

Hard to argue below 18 actually needs more. Wants, sure, but then whole cancerous can of worms is opened and good luck there.

He has a Lightphone which he hates. That's how I know it is working. He built a gaming PC last year, so I am aware that Pandora's box is open there. But look, it has been thirteen years of playing whackamole with YouTube. I can't keep him off it. They watch it at school. They give him chromebooks that I have no control over. And the stuff I do have control over the control is tenuous. I have largely given up. He is pretty much grown now. But man, has it felt like gaslighting when people are like, "Do parenting. Use the settings. Get a dumb phone. Problem solved."
And have you ever tried to find or access parental settings on a school Chromebook?
Is this mobile app only? I don't see "time management" on the website.
I tried on both phone and desktop and couldn't find that alleged setting either.