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TIL mobile JavaScript console https://eruda.liriliri.io/
I found that really interesting too. I've often wanted something like that!
Parental control bypass is the bigger issue here, kids will do anything to get around parental controls and Google made a promise when they set up parental controls that it was secure and would prevent your children from accessing things you didn’t want them to. This breaks that promise.
I found out that (I'm sure this is a known exploit at this point, but at the time it felt awesome figuring it out) if I went into Microsoft Word (or maybe Works?), went to "help" on the menu bar, and clicked on "About Microsoft Works" it took you to an instance of Internet Explorer that you could then use to visit any website you like.
I had a really cool teacher for those classes though, and I'm pretty sure he was amused (and maybe even proud) when he saw high schoolers in 2001 or whatever, finding clever ways around restrictions set up by the school. We may not have been doing what he had explicitly asked us for, but clearly we were learning something.
Parental control bypass is the bigger issue here, kids will do anything to get around parental controls and Google made a promise when they set up parental controls that it was secure and would prevent your children from accessing things you didn’t want them to. This breaks that promise.
When a child is powerful enough to start taking control from you it might be time to start giving it away.
TIL mobile JavaScript console https://eruda.liriliri.io/
Parental control bypass is the bigger issue here, kids will do anything to get around parental controls and Google made a promise when they set up parental controls that it was secure and would prevent your children from accessing things you didn’t want them to. This breaks that promise.
While I can see your hesitations, I think the solution is rather straight forward: block the Google Account settings behind parental controls. I don't think you'll want your kids logging out of their parental controlled accounts so they can create new ones anyway, so that's probably a good idea regardless of the we webview they can trick into opening Google.com.
You'll find webviews inside most apps because your average weather app developer isn't really interested in preventing kids from using their privacy policy webview to access porn.
I don't get it myself (why not just launch the default browser instead of adding a webview?) but I hope you'll see that these types of workarounds are not unique to Google's settings.
Is this different than any other embedded webview? Doesn't nearly every app somewhere have an embedded webview somewhere for things like "view privacy policy", where it is often much easier to display html than sending the whole privacy policy to your app developer?