Re: Issues
Parental controls on fire TV are just as big a joke.
As a parent I have 3 options for limiting kids on the device:
1 - Dont limit, just full access to all purchases and all age ratings
2 - limit purchases, but still give full access to all prime content and paid for content is mixed in (but requires pin)
3 - require a pin for everything. Even kids TV.
I sent them countless suggestions a year ago, kids only mode ala Netflix, at the very least add a 4th option to require pin for anything rated 12 and over.
After a year of "improvements" what do we get instead? They add banners at the top (for bloody shows like Vikings and walking dead). They add in trailers at the start of some videos now too. Oh, and they banned firestarter this month... So the solution I had found to at least steer kids away from mature content (auto load into Netflix on boot) now doesn't work.
They've taken a very slick and promising product, made it less family friendly, more annoying, and more expensive.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
