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Agreed and YouTube could do a lot better, my child does not need a library of 30 million videos, I would rather have a well curated whitelist of 10000.

by tudorw 9y ago

Steko 9y ago
> YouTube says it typically takes at least a few days for content to make its way from YouTube proper to YouTube Kids, and the hope is that within that window, users will flag anything potentially disturbing to children They’ll use the computing power of a small nation to train their Go-Bot and can instantly identify anything that might belong to Big Content ... but when it comes to basic decency Google throw up their hands.
worldsayshi 9y ago
Yeah, they could solve this problem in a heartbeat by having a mode where you can only look at your subscribed content.
- setzer22 9y ago
  This can even be done without google. In fact, this would require minimal work. For example, Kodi's youtube plugin, which lacks the recommendations and autoplay features (which is a feature in this case), could be easily restricted to only show the "Subscriptions" folder. On the other hand, a user-maintained curated list of channels for children is not something that unthinkable (think of GitHub model, with pull requests and that sort of thing). Join both things and you get a better alternative to Youtube Kids for concerned parents. I'm even surprised nobody has done something like this, it would be a nice project.
  - worldsayshi 9y ago
    However, as krapp pointed out, the main argument against limiting to subscribed content would be that it undermines youtube's business model. If such project got a lot of users youtube might start to work against it.
  - GFischer 9y ago
    That's one of my favourite ideas to submit whenever people ask for startup ideas :) I absolutely believe there's a need for curated content for online video. I'd love a tv-channel-like browsing experience, with seamless switching (maybe some clever caching behind the scenes).
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  This would not help their business.
bigbugbag 9y ago
This is not about your child, this is about making the most profit through collecting personal data and advertising while keeping the target engaged. you know, google.

Agreed and YouTube could do a lot better, my child does not need a library of 30 million videos, I would rather have a well curated whitelist of 10000.

by tudorw 9y ago

Agreed and YouTube could do a lot better, my child does not need a library of 30 million videos, I would rather have a well curated whitelist of 10000.

Steko 9y ago

> YouTube says it typically takes at least a few days for content to make its way from YouTube proper to YouTube Kids, and the hope is that within that window, users will flag anything potentially disturbing to children They’ll use the computing power of a small nation to train their Go-Bot and can instantly identify anything that might belong to Big Content ... but when it comes to basic decency Google throw up their hands.

worldsayshi 9y ago

Yeah, they could solve this problem in a heartbeat by having a mode where you can only look at your subscribed content.

setzer22 9y ago
This can even be done without google. In fact, this would require minimal work. For example, Kodi's youtube plugin, which lacks the recommendations and autoplay features (which is a feature in this case), could be easily restricted to only show the "Subscriptions" folder. On the other hand, a user-maintained curated list of channels for children is not something that unthinkable (think of GitHub model, with pull requests and that sort of thing). Join both things and you get a better alternative to Youtube Kids for concerned parents. I'm even surprised nobody has done something like this, it would be a nice project.
- worldsayshi 9y ago
  However, as krapp pointed out, the main argument against limiting to subscribed content would be that it undermines youtube's business model. If such project got a lot of users youtube might start to work against it.
- GFischer 9y ago
  That's one of my favourite ideas to submit whenever people ask for startup ideas :) I absolutely believe there's a need for curated content for online video. I'd love a tv-channel-like browsing experience, with seamless switching (maybe some clever caching behind the scenes).
bigbugbag 9y ago
This would not help their business.

bigbugbag 9y ago

This is not about your child, this is about making the most profit through collecting personal data and advertising while keeping the target engaged. you know, google.