My two daughters play Roblox.[1] Their parental control has improved a lot. However, I find that it is more about training and helping your kid understand how to be careful online than interacting with a 'better' Online Entity. Today, it is Roblox; there will be a lot of others. I know it will never be a solved problem, but help them understand very early on what to do and what not to do.

We usually do routines - while in the car, at home - "What are our online protocols?", "What if someone, even if they seem like a tiny kid, asks you for anything personal?" "If someone told you that it is one of our family or relatives, what are the challenge words and codes?" etc.

1. https://story.oinam.com/2017/date-roblox/

> being built to extract microtransactions.

Right. Company's finance is based off on 1) letting game devs sell loot boxes freely to children. It's a legal slot machine for kids 2) paying developers with their own currency which then can be converted to tangible currency

These should be illegal

While true this statement generalizes to any internet connected service. 2000s internet had loads of wild content, anyone remember LiveLeaks?

And Roblox has decent parental controls. You can disable any chat outside a curated group of friends, and not sign up for micro transactions.

> You can disable any chat outside a curated group of friends

IMO public chat should be disabled by default for U13 accounts, not the other way.

Idk, I play with them, and it seems the usual online game activities, not anything crazy.

The games are pretty additive though, and the fake money becomes real money pretty fast.