I am finding some of my aging family members are increasingly in need of guardrails where their Android phones and tablets are concerned as they keep downloading shady apps and falling for fake virus ads and fake shopify hosted stores that pollute Facebook and Google search results.

So the the ability to lock down the Google Play store, block malicious and scammy URLs and force their devices to use dns0.eu is appealing to me.

However I have only approached MDMs before from a enterprise perspective and the vendor my former employer preferred would not be suitable for six to eight devices.

I know there are some roll your own open-source alternatives but I don't think keeping a cloud server updated and patched for the next decade or more for the sake of just a handful of devices is practical.

So I would be curious to know if anyone here has had to address this use case before and what platform they chose.