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Same goes in Youtube. It is next to impossible to actively "block" a specific channel on Youtube. I recently tried to do it after noticing #ElsaGate videos popp
by zo1 9y ago
Same goes in Youtube. It is next to impossible to actively "block" a specific channel on Youtube. I recently tried to do it after noticing #ElsaGate videos popping up in my son's recommended videos, and I just couldn't find anything. It's done by about a dozen channels, and I figured it'd be trivial to just identify them all because Google conveniently marks them all as "related" on each other's channels. But no luck.
The secondary sneaky part is sure they let you "block" a channel, but all that means is that that "Channel" can't comment on your videos. WTF? A gigantic site, with arguably thousands of developers and employees, and a simple function such as "block channel's videos" can't be implemented? Oh, and thanks to HTTPS, you can't even write a proxy to fix the incoming HTTP responses to filter stuff out (unless you install CA certs on all your clients), which is impossible for locked-in devices such as ChromeCasts, Rokus, and all other "Smart" viewing devices.
The conspiracy-theorist in me thinks that the whole "HTTPS the whole web" was just a sneaky way of gaining control over how your clients view your content, and not really privacy.
- tauchunfall 9y ago>It is next to impossible to actively "block" a specific channel on Youtube. I recently tried to do it after noticing #ElsaGate videos popping up in my son's recommended videos, and I just couldn't find anything. I never heard about #ElsaGate before. There is obviously a pedagogic message in the videos. The main problem seems that leaving the kids unattended watching these videos doesn't work here. Similar to Grimms' Fairy Tales or children stories from Shockheaded Peter. Parents need to read these books to their children in order to give them feedback. I've read some texts by Prof. Dr. Stefan Aufenanger from University of Mainz about this topic. EDIT: Of course, in order to explain things to kids they need to be in a certain age. The videos seem to be targeted to children in pre-school age.