I wanted to review the parentals control of the Amazon Fire Tablet.

The product can be paid by months, but be advised I review the free version, which still allow some parental's control.

The first step is to register the tablet under your own amazon account as a parent.

The second step is to go on the dashboard; https://www.amazon.com/parentdashboard

After that, we are presented with that page, which we can skip;

From here we can go see the settings and content we want to allow on each kids device.

We are presented with a resumy of the tablet use;

We can click to see like the schedule and settings;

I recommend to turn off the web browser, as it's a way to bypass the restriction;

After that we can see the content;

We click to see owned content;

Be advised, a paid game can be installed on all devices, BUT in-games purchase NO so watch for in-games purchases, as it cna be tricky to re-import.

For my review, I found the parental control really nice, only drawback are the ingame purchase mode, which are hard to transfert, like if your kid broke is tablet, the ID dont fit, so you have to contact all game to reactivate.

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Hi !

Today I will share some parental control possible if you own a Meraki firewall at home.

First of all, you must know to have the control, you need the Advanced suite licence for the device. Enterprise licence does not cover that. For a strange reason Meraki's enterprise licence is the basic's one, without Content Filtering.

In a nutshell, it exist only 3 way to make it possible;

1. Block Adult Content. That method will block for everyone in the house.

   • Go to the Meraki Dashboard.Navigate to Security & SD-WAN (or Wireless for AP-specific settings) > Configure > Content Filtering.
   • Check the option to Block adult content using the built-in database of objectionable websites.
   • Add custom blocked or allowed URL patterns/categories if needed.

2. Create a Dedicated Kids' SSID. This method is more flexible that #1, as it block adult category on a SSID that the kid device will use.

   • Create a separate wireless network or SSID specifically for children's devices.
   • Apply strict content filtering and traffic shaping rules exclusively to that SSID.

3. Set Access Schedules. This settings would go over the method #2, to make sure no device are left after bed time to naviguate or use the Internet.

   • Configure availability schedules on the specific kids' SSID to turn off internet access during bedtime or study hours.

I suggest those categories to block;

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