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Same here. Also all the big streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu) have kids sections with quality children's programming. I don't understand wh

• spraak 7y ago
  > I don't understand why parents let loose their kids on YouTube when these alternatives exist. Yes, especially with all the horror stories of weird videos that I've read about even here in HN.
• dragonwriter 7y ago
  > Also all the big streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu) have kids sections with quality children's programming. All of them are absolutely swamped with hypercommercial psychologically manipulative selling-toys-to-kids programming, though it's from big corps so I guess that makes it okay. > I don't understand why parents let loose their kids on YouTube when these alternatives exist. Because YouTube, for all it's real problems, is both cheaper (free with ads) than the others and has a huge trove of excellent kid-appropriate content (including professionally produced stuff like the National Geographic Science 101 series) that isn't (AFAIK) on any of the other platforms and because most people aren't familiar with the horror stories, or if they are (accurately or not) interpret then as extreme edge cases, not likely events.