https://www.visorcraft.com/news/tags/kids/Recent content in Kids on VisorCraft NewsHugoen-USTue, 04 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/08/spidertypes-typing-game-for-kids-that-doesnt-call-home/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/08/spidertypes-typing-game-for-kids-that-doesnt-call-home/<p>Children&rsquo;s software became one of the most surveilled categories of software ever sold, and it happened quietly enough that most parents never noticed the trade, because the free typing game on the school portal and the free phonics app on the tablet are not free at all, they are telemetry endpoints with a cartoon mascot on the front, collecting session lengths, device identifiers, and behavioral profiles on an audience that cannot legally consent to any of it, and the occasional COPPA fine that makes the news is just the cost of doing business for the ones who got caught. We grew up in a different regime, where Mavis Beacon came in a cardboard box and the only things she knew about you were your words per minute and which lessons you had finished, all of it stored on the same disk as the program, and the interesting question for us was not how to build a typing game but whether that older deal, software that works and knows nothing, was still possible to ship in 2026 without it reading as nostalgia bait.</p>