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>> Apps that include children in their target audience need to adhere to our new policy requirements including appropriate content, showing suitable ads (learn

>> Apps that include children in their target audience need to adhere to our new policy requirements including appropriate content, showing suitable ads (learn more), and disclosing personally identifiable information correctly. so youtube kids would be a flagrant violation of their new policy. why do they keep recommending this app to me? shouldn't it just be demonitized like they do to countless devs for unstated reasons. Google has less than zero trust stored and they should probably learn that this means they will lose money (sooner or later).

Simon_says 7y ago
Youtube Kids is videos OF kids, not videos FOR kids.
- reificator 7y ago
  From Wikipedia: > YouTube Kids is a video app developed by YouTube. The app provides a version of the service oriented towards children, with curated selections of content, parental control features, and filtering of videos not deemed to be appropriate to the target audience.
  - gambiting 7y ago
    I mean, yes, they say that, but there's plenty of videos(on YouTube, lol) showing how to get to child-inappropriate videos on YouTube Kids(Jake Paul videos for instance, they don't show if you search for Jake Paul but there are other terms you can search for and they will show up).
    - reificator 7y ago
      And physically[0], Jake Paul is not a child, further debunking the post I was replying to initially. [0]: I'm sure there's a ton of controversy because this is the internet and that's what you people do for a living, so I'm sure I'll get some posts claiming he's as mature as a 5 year old or whatever. But Google says born in 1997, which I'm sorry to tell you means he's not a child.
      - Simon_says 7y ago
        Jake Paul is mature, FOR a 5 year old.
electriclove 7y ago
YouTube kids has issues, no doubt. But I'm happy to see this post and their attempt to improve things in the Play Store. I think there are people at Google that want to do the right thing. Hope they can do so against motivation to blindly increase "engagement", clicks, users, monetization.
jfoster 7y ago
How dare they try to improve Google Play whilst YouTube Kids has an issue. By the way, how dare they try to improve YouTube Kids whilst Google Play has an issue. Deadlock.

Simon_says 7y ago

Youtube Kids is videos OF kids, not videos FOR kids.

reificator 7y ago
From Wikipedia: > YouTube Kids is a video app developed by YouTube. The app provides a version of the service oriented towards children, with curated selections of content, parental control features, and filtering of videos not deemed to be appropriate to the target audience.
- gambiting 7y ago
  I mean, yes, they say that, but there's plenty of videos(on YouTube, lol) showing how to get to child-inappropriate videos on YouTube Kids(Jake Paul videos for instance, they don't show if you search for Jake Paul but there are other terms you can search for and they will show up).
  - reificator 7y ago
    And physically[0], Jake Paul is not a child, further debunking the post I was replying to initially. [0]: I'm sure there's a ton of controversy because this is the internet and that's what you people do for a living, so I'm sure I'll get some posts claiming he's as mature as a 5 year old or whatever. But Google says born in 1997, which I'm sorry to tell you means he's not a child.
    - Simon_says 7y ago
      Jake Paul is mature, FOR a 5 year old.

electriclove 7y ago

YouTube kids has issues, no doubt. But I'm happy to see this post and their attempt to improve things in the Play Store. I think there are people at Google that want to do the right thing. Hope they can do so against motivation to blindly increase "engagement", clicks, users, monetization.

jfoster 7y ago

How dare they try to improve Google Play whilst YouTube Kids has an issue. By the way, how dare they try to improve YouTube Kids whilst Google Play has an issue. Deadlock.