I absolutely love the new Interference for parental controls and I’m glad I’ll be able to have more safety controls over my younger siblings accounts but i have a few questions.
Chat Settings
Will we be able to restrict access to in game chat to Friends only in the future? Chatting is a key and needed feature to play easily with friends on Roblox. I personally manage every single friend request. and it would be nice to allow my siblings to connect with friends from school on chat because currently i have it turned Off because i do not want strangers to be able to talk to them.
Experiences
Will there be a way to block certain experiences on an account in the future? There are a few games that i believe don’t have the best playerbases and i would not want them to play.
Ingame Audio
Will there ever be a way to block audio played by other users inside an experience? Many games have a external boombox game pass and while unfortunately Roblox try’s their best to moderate inappropriate content on the platform sometimes inappropriate audios can slip through moderation and unfortunately make their way into public experiences.
you should separate the content into categories so that parents can choose, for example, some may blacklist crude humor or blood but allow violence etc.
a pin is very easy to crack eventually, similar to pass guessing
it’s also very weak by a security standpoint, and most features already require a proper authentication app instead of the pin. the only place the pin is used is when changing parental control related settings, and those pose almost 0 security risk.
True. I was pretty much making a very simplified argument to explain why we should have at least the option to use a pin. Probably falls flat in a non simple subject.
Yes please require 2FA for any purchases, my account has been hacked before and the hacker spent all my robux on items which required me to revert my inventory… This is annoying because now if i ever get hacked again and i need an inventory revert, the request is going to get denied…
Good updates for parents who actually care, eventhough I know roblox is international and majority of non english speaking player’s parents don’t even speak English to understand this. But have you at least fixed or changed the thing that anyone who gets the player’s cookie can easily access their profile yet? Removing the PIN without fixing those issues would just make anyone who accidentally clicks on a logger link unable to stop the logger from entering their account. Almost everyone who plays roblox uses PIN for security reasons and not because their parents understand how that works so I hope you all reconsider that.
Website / app chat outside of experiences was beneficial during the pandemic, but I honestly think it’s better if it remains available with parental consent, and the ability for parents to monitor chat at any time.
I started Roblox when I was 11 and did not use Discord as an alternative until I was 16, so being able to chat on the website / app while under 13 was very convenient for my friends and I to spend more time together, but unfortunately, creeps out there decided to ruin it with their disgusting behavior. No matter how hard the filter tried, I’ve seen stories about them able to convince their “friends” to switch to Discord or something else, and many parents didn’t know about it.
ah yes, because no parent in the world is concerned about their privacy and will gladly hand over their credit card information and/or ID to some random company (that has several controversies surrounding it, might i add.)
removing the PIN wasn’t necessary, and this just makes it even harder for parents to set up parental controls.
so, like many other roblox updates, this is a pointless update that does nothing but make things worse. (except for the content policy thing regarding accounts for children under 9 years old, that’s fine i guess but still a bit redundant since children could just make a new account)
good job, roblox.
That was a Really smart move on your guys end eh? My account is probely less secure espesily when my email is full of spam rn and i cant even get emails INBOUND
The parent PIN was a decent security feature for protecting accounts. In contrast, 2FA is always inconvenient. I really hope they plan to bring back a PIN system that everyone can use.
Is there a policy that developers can use to see if an account has direct messaging turned off? I know about CanUsersDirectChatAsync, but this returns if specific players can chat with each other.
Also, 2-factor is easily bypassable with cookie logging, and I use Parent Pin as a 3rd factor protection.
This is not only a huge security risk, but as a developer, makes it harder to trust the platforms overall security of my assets. The parent pin was one of the only great defenses against cookie loggers, or other forms of exploitation and takeover of accounts. Sure, 2-step works for your password, but people have found workarounds to this.
Please revert this decision as you are risking everyone’s accounts by removing this very important protection on accounts.
Nice move roblox, make our vital account settings more vulnerable to hackers etc by taking away pins, sure we have 2 authentication but still that’s just for the account, the pin provided an extra layer, especially one for like mentioned above, vital settings.
Definitely disappointed in this change.
For me personally I’m in my 20s and obviously don’t need the parent stuff but it’s good for them, but I do like knowing I have an extra layer of security
