"At some point, my sweet, darling children discovered that they could get funny results by asking Alexa to play songs, through Spotify, that had various potty words. Expanding on this, one of my enterprising children recently asked, 'Hey Alexa, play mommy farted,' and indeed, a silly song about farts played. My parenting philosophy is to not deny the universal truth that farts are funny, but instead try to impart judgment and awareness of when and where to wield this powerful knowledge."
"Next came a request for 'daddy farted' and 'brother farted,' all with silly, PG-rated songs. But then came 'Alexa, play sister farted.' And it announced a song title that was unexpectedly NSFW. I will not type out the song name here, but let's just say the Alexa device was unplugged and put away for a while. I know what you're thinking: This is an Alexa problem, not a Spotify one. Well, sure, this is partially true. I'll save you the details, but it is incredibly maddening and inconsistent to turn on/off explicit content on Spotify via Alexa."
Spotify is introducing parental controls for Family Account plans that allow a parent to block videos, podcasts, and explicit content on a child’s account. The new controls aim to resolve a long-standing problem for parents who could not reliably prevent children from encountering NSFW tracks, especially when using voice assistants such as Alexa. The controls will let parents manage content filters on kids’ profiles and restrict specific media types. The feature is intended to provide safer listening for elementary-aged children who access music and audio through shared devices and family-managed accounts.
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