I think my child would grow up with a dumb internetless TV just like I did, just with a media collection on hard drives instead of DVDs.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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YouTube is poison for children, no matter how they try to present it. There's plenty of good content, but no way is my son watching anything on there without me sitting right there with him
That was my thought several years back when YouTube kids was introduced. There was no way to keep trash videos (like unboxing videos) from playing next so we uninstalled.
This. I'm glad they are getting rid of the sham of a kids client. It's a joke that anyone should think the content is kid safe. No more lulling parents into a false sense of security.
I was supervising my son watch this one day and had to step away for a few minutes to answer the door. When I was gone a new video came on with Peppa Pig murdering her family and all the characters from the show. Actually bleeding and all.
I reported the video, didn't get taken off the kids platform. So I contacted support - they said it was kid safe.
Kid safe?! Dafuq? I had his account set to under 6 and this is what they consider kid safe?
My sisters gives her son (4yo almost 5) free reign on YouTube and thr child is an absolute monster. It's probably not entirely youtubes fault as my sister isn't a good parent but I'm sure it's partially at fault.
Anyone giving their 4 year old unrestricted and unsupervised access to YouTube is probably also lacking structure in lots of other realms of parenting
She is absolutely.
Yeah, there's tonnes of good content on there, but as you allude to, there's even more shitty or zero effort content... And the algorithm has a way of serving up absolute trash. And the parental controls are pretty much non existent...
Youtube happily serves up videos to an 8 year old (on a supervised children's account) that contain topics like abuse, sex, racism, horror, radical religious indoctrination, Chinese propaganda, and human centipede... This isn't as rampant in the YouTube Kids app... But at least half the stuff on YouTube Kids is ASMR content or unboxing "surprise" toys...
YouTube allows you to block channels, but will happily continue serving the 9000 other accounts that simply reupload the same exact videos.
It's not like YouTube kids was able to serve its purpose anyway.
just add it to the pile
This sucks. YT kids does not have ads, the main client does!
It doesn’t have ads if you use a kids profile, even on the main client. I’ve been using the unified interface on Apple TV for almost a year now. Nothing is really changing.
YT Kids avsolutely has ads.
Honestly this one kind of makes sense. Why have two separate apps when you could just put a lock on one of the apps?
It worked for our family. The kids can use YT kids to have access to their videos and I can use the YT app to have access to mine without having to worry about switching profiles. Switching profiles is a little bit above the level of understanding for a 6 year old. If it prompts you to select a profile every time you launch the YT app i guess its probably not a problem.
Yeah now that everyone’s used to multiple profiles in streaming apps, having a separate kid-friendly version is kinda redundant
Can you actually put a pin on an adult account in the TV app though? They got shot of the kids app on TV, so now the kids use the main app, but their isn't away to stop them from just going into an adult profile.
I don't know, maybe, check up on what your kids are watching from time to time? We survived the 90s just fine this way. Now we expect technology to supervise and raise them...
Haha, yeah, I do actually keep an eye on what they are watching, they just get up early and bang out a sneaky TV session. I trust them to select the right profile, and they always do, it's just a feature I would have thought that Google would have added. You look at all the other apps, netflix/Disney and they all do it.