Amazon’s FreeTime service provides parents with firm controls over the content their kids consume. The company approves books, videos, websites, and YouTube videos and groups them according to how age-appropriate they are. Parents can then define what age their kids are and how mature of content they should be able to access. Up until now, the controls were only available on Fire Tablets, Kindles, and Fire TV, but today, the company is launching a FreeTime Android app. This is the first time FreeTime is available on non-Amazon devices.
Parents can select the books, videos, apps, and games that are added to the FreeTime Android app, while kids can browse age-appropriate YouTube videos and websites, which again, are whitelisted by Amazon’s...
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