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Even if you locked them down to YT for kids, do you honestly trust Google to accurately decide what is acceptable for kids? Yeah, no. I don't. (Remember when th
by jtbayly 5y ago
Even if you locked them down to YT for kids, do you honestly trust Google to accurately decide what is acceptable for kids? Yeah, no. I don't. (Remember when they had porn in there?)
So how does this help, anyway?
- sp332 5y agoLately, they have been good. I don't blame you for mistrusting them because it took at least 4 scandals (I lost track), but they seem to have sorted it out.
- handrous 5y agoStill much worse than just letting parents create an allow-list of channels or videos from any part of YT, including the non-"YouTube Kids" part :-/ It'd be nice to be able to turn them loose on a YouTube that was just educational videos I've curated, no weird toy unboxing shit, without having to, like, maintain my own file server and streaming service.
- account42 5y ago> without having to, like, maintain my own file server and streaming service. Why not? Doesn't take that much to downlod the videos and let them watch locally - we are in a thread about youtube-dl after all.