Parents Due $100M Back From Kids In-App Spending Sprees

[spenser.d]

Freemium games are immoral and dangerous.

 

So is not password-protecting your account/credit card.

[ILikeTobacco]

Lift all passwords then and let everything be free and open. Manage your own stuff lets see how far that goes.

... you make no sense what so ever. Why would you get rid of the password protection that keeps your kid from installing and buying anything they want? That is just moronic. You are making a problem where one doesn't exist. The software works exactly as intended and as long as you are not a lazy parent, your kids won't be able to charge anything to your account. At this point I can't help but think you are trolling. Everyone else in this thread is saying useful things on how to secure a device from a child and you are saying the responsible thing to do is get rid of all protections and let them have at it. All this because you apparently don't have the occasional 2 minutes to spend parenting your child. It really only takes 2 minutes to look at a game and figure out if it is a freemium game or not. Problem solved. Go troll somewhere else please or better yet, instead of wasting two minutes of your time trolling, go be a parent to your child that you say you don't have 2 minutes for and thus everything they do isn't your responsibility.

[Skiver Veteran]

Lift all passwords then and let everything be free and open. Manage your own stuff lets see how far that goes.

 

My Daughters Nexus doesn't have a password, nor does the other half's Ipad and like I said, we have never had an issue. I will grant you to a point that kids at a young age may struggle with this but then I also don't think that kids too young to understand are possibly too young to be playing on it in the first place.

 

You sir are one of the few with a brain. All too often its...

Here child, play with this ?300 piece of kit, im just going to go into the other room.......

 

 

 

Thank you...

Don't get me wrong there are times where it is used as a "baby sitting" device, Early weekend mornings for example, however it is a weekend thing during term time and she is only allowed a few hours when she is on.