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Google Family Link mentions (16)

• Need help tracing a phone number to get its exact location.

  Install google family link app in your father mobile. You can enable GPS and view your father live location. Https://families.google.com/familylink/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• A device to help kids control their screen time?

  Use parental controls on the device: https://families.google.com/familylink/ . If you prefer to give the kid a visual reminder of how much time there is left then pair it with an egg timer or a set of hourglass timers. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Mom wants for our daughter to have a phone when she starts middle school. I don't.

  What I did was we started with an android phone, upon set up I created her own gmail account and with her being a minor it automatically asked for parent gmail and it linked together There was an app that was automatically installed called “Family Link”. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Parental Software Advice: Kids GPS location PLUS online safety/screen-time management?

  Doesn't the googles family link already do all of those and is free? Source: almost 2 years ago

• A way to limit and monitor kids iPad app usage

  Have you tried the Family Link app by Google? It does most of that from what I'm reading. Source: about 2 years ago

Pi-hole mentions (1185)

• Ask HN: For what purposes do you use a Raspberry Pi?

  Pi-hole to block ads and tracking for my less technically savvy relatives https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide blocking ads and tracking

  I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS. Note: This... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• YouTube Says It Has More Than 100M Premium and Music Subscribers

  Can the piHole help us eliminate bandwidth wasting ads on TV's? https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV

  It definitely IS an option, but at the network level. https://pi-hole.net/ It runs on damn near everything, and is a DNS level adblocker for the whole network. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• In 2024, please switch to Firefox

  I recently switched to Wipr [0]. It’s dead simple to use, and will auto update its filter lists in the background. Adguard [1] is a decent free option. I also use a Pi-hole [2] on my network. [0] https://kaylees.site/wipr.html [1] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html [2] https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago