Limitations of Family View

[yaveshtolethien]

I have Covenant Eyes on my computer. It's a great program, hard to circumvent, and it keeps everyone honest. You guys don't get along with them, so they stopped supporting steam. It was okay, on the surface, because you have your own parental controls.... family view. However, you made them with an extremely enormous, easily exploited hole: If you start a new account, you can easily use Steam to access a browser, without verifying the new account email. That means you are one gibberish, invalid email address away from having access to a browser no matter what you do with the parental blocks. Easy fix.... make a person verify the email before they can use the new account. Another easy fix, allow a password control for starting a new account, or block the create new account feature with password protection available. Done. I can't believe no one has fixed this. I am a Steam user, and enjoy the platform. I love the games I have, and now I have the money to buy more, but I had to delete Steam! Fix this please!!!

[Hextravert]

And I can't believe you had to delete Steam.

yaveshtolethien の投稿を引用：

I have Covenant Eyes on my computer. It's a great program, hard to circumvent, and it keeps everyone honest. You guys don't get along with them, so they stopped supporting steam. It was okay, on the surface, because you have your own parental controls.... family view. However, you made them with an extremely enormous, easily exploited hole: If you start a new account, you can easily use Steam to access a browser, without verifying the new account email. That means you are one gibberish, invalid email address away from having access to a browser no matter what you do with the parental blocks. Easy fix.... make a person verify the email before they can use the new account. Another easy fix, allow a password control for starting a new account, or block the create new account feature with password protection available. Done. I can't believe no one has fixed this. I am a Steam user, and enjoy the platform. I love the games I have, and now I have the money to buy more, but I had to delete Steam! Fix this please!!!

[yaveshtolethien]

I hear you. Apparently, helping me childproof my PC isn't a priority at Steam. I had to buy a hard copy of a game I want to play.

[76561198001062896]

yaveshtolethien の投稿を引用：

I hear you. Apparently, helping me childproof my PC isn't a priority at Steam. I had to buy a hard copy of a game I want to play.

No offence intended but Valve isnt there to do the babysitting for you.


Imho its already bad enough when instead of actually having a real dialogue with your kid you want to put up artificial barriers to do the parenting for you. (ever heard of the phrase about the forbidden fruit?) but then again thats just me *shrugs* not gonna get into a debate about this.


Personally I grew up playing quake 3 and other so called mature games, yet I managed to have a decent and happy childhood, because my parents spent time with me instead of istting me down in front of a computer.

The more you want to bar away a child from playing something, the harder they will try and find their way around it, but I would think this is painfully obvious for anyone for anyone with kids

PS: in order to register a steam account you "officially" need to be 13+ year old, so yes, they indeed arent exactly catering to kids as is rather than starting from young teenagers.

[yaveshtolethien]

Steam has an unmitigatable browser. There is no way to filter or block the Steam browser. No child has any business being able to surf for porn unsupervised. You made a lot of assumptions, and aren't speaking with wisdom. A child of 7 is not given a gun to take to school, or allowed to drive a car. They aren't capable of handling either situation, and shouldn't be expected to. It was never about the games.

[76561198001062896]

yaveshtolethien の投稿を引用：

Steam has an unmitigatable browser. There is no way to filter or block the Steam browser. No child has any business being able to surf for porn unsupervised. You made a lot of assumptions, and aren't speaking with wisdom. A child of 7 is not given a gun to take to school, or allowed to drive a car. They aren't capable of handling either situation, and shouldn't be expected to. It was never about the games.

Once again

YOU are the parent, not Steam. YOU are the on in control of such, not them

[yaveshtolethien]

Trouble was resolved. Steam is now compatible with my software. And there was much rejoicing.