It would be really interesting if they could integrate some form of parental controls along with this whole caching/prefetching/data crunching process.
Say you logged into your Amazon account and set the rating level for content available in Fire and then Amazon's servers would block your kid from accessing freepr0n4all.com. You could add exceptions, specific sites to block, etc. and there would be a known, ever-evolving database of "unsafe" sites by rating.
The ability to filter content in a mobile browser isn't something that exists as of yet, I don't believe.
If I could do this, I'd buy one for my 9yr old today.
Of course, this could then be combined with other tools to "lock down" the fire, e.g. disabling the ability to exit "cloud mode" and thus bypass the filters, password protection for app/movie purchases, like iOS parental controls do, and so on.
Honest question from someone who grew up in the era of web content controls: Do you really think you -- or any of us -- have the technical capability to stop another person from seeing something on the Internet if they want to?
It makes sense to try to help a young child keep from accidentally stumbling across that kind of crap, but I'm highly skeptical of the idea that you can prevent your child from looking at porn full stop-- or would really want to.
No, not at all. I'm going with (hopefully) good parenting and crossing my fingers on that one. ;) It's preventing the "accidentally wandering into questionable content" that I'm interested in, in search results, etc.
I'm not so much even worried about protecting her from the "questionable content" because I think that's something she needs to learn to deal with (though we do of course have rules about what is and isn't allowed). I just don't want her stumbling across it on a tablet in her bedroom, where we won't notice and can't offer guidance or discussion.
We have a computer in the living room that she uses for internet access and we don't have any filtering software, etc. on it. It's just out in the open, so generally supervised.
Say you logged into your Amazon account and set the rating level for content available in Fire and then Amazon's servers would block your kid from accessing freepr0n4all.com. You could add exceptions, specific sites to block, etc. and there would be a known, ever-evolving database of "unsafe" sites by rating.
The ability to filter content in a mobile browser isn't something that exists as of yet, I don't believe.
If I could do this, I'd buy one for my 9yr old today.
Of course, this could then be combined with other tools to "lock down" the fire, e.g. disabling the ability to exit "cloud mode" and thus bypass the filters, password protection for app/movie purchases, like iOS parental controls do, and so on.