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Yeah I actually stopped allowing YouTube and YouTube Kids. YouTube has inappropriate ads, and YouTube Kids content is basically half ads in disguise (just peopl
by tcfunk 7y ago
Yeah I actually stopped allowing YouTube and YouTube Kids. YouTube has inappropriate ads, and YouTube Kids content is basically half ads in disguise (just people advertising toys and how they work).
- braythwayt 7y agoWhy can't things be like the Good Old Days when Raganwald was young. We watched Saturday Morning Cartoons, not played with apps. Hmmm... Now that I think about it, Saturday Morning Cartoons were filled with advertising for sugar and violent toys, some of which was clearly labeled as advertising.
- robryan 7y agoGuess the experience varies country to country but at least they generally reserved selling for the ad breaks. Unlike say a paid unboxing video.
- darkpuma 7y agoBy the 80s to 90s, a lot of popular kids shows were glorified ads for toy lines. For instance, 'Transformers' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers.
- soulofmischief 7y agoI get the feeling, but you must realize that preventing your children from using YouTube is like being the parent who prevented their children from watching television. You're teaching your children about censorship. It's easier, sure, but maybe it's worth the effort to have a mature conversation with them instead of wholesale preventing access to their generation's largest media platform.
- mc32 7y agoHow do you have a mature conversation with children who are unable to process (due to age) certain advanced concepts like marketing, advertising, monetization, irrelevancy, deception, exploitation, etc? I don’t think they’re talking adolescents but rather toddlers and young children.
- CamperBob2 7y agoSimple. Tell your child, "Don't worry. Nothing you see on a screen is real." That will immunize them from everything from zombies to pornography to Fox News.
- mc32 7y agoThat doesn’t sound mature and also is dismissive of psychological manipulation, etc. It’ll be as effective as saying, “don’t be afraid of the dark, there are no monsters, that’s just your imagination.”
- CamperBob2 7y agoThat doesn’t sound mature (Shrug) Don't tell me, tell Plato. He came up with the notion. It’ll be as effective as saying, “don’t be afraid of the dark, there are no monsters, that’s just your imagination.” That's pretty effective, and something almost every parent has to tell their child at one point or another. What do you recommend saying instead?
- soulofmischief 7y agoSomewhat fitting, because Plato presented the Cave Allegory specifically to illustrate "the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature". However, the Allegory was about how our senses and perceptions limit our full understanding of the world, not the fact that things we see on a television or stage are not real. The former is a philosophical concept, the latter is just good advice.
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- petre 7y agoYoutube is mainly just ads and advertorials. I now get a "breaking news" "recommendation" as well for some reason although I never watch news.