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I see so many of these complaints about YT having lots of good family-friendly content but at the same time being terrible at curation even in the kids mode. S
by Nextgrid 5y ago
I see so many of these complaints about YT having lots of good family-friendly content but at the same time being terrible at curation even in the kids mode.
Seems like the problem can be solved with a crowdsourced list of family-friendly videos (on GitHub?) managed by trusted collaborators and then a simple page that embeds only these videos?
Over time I assume it should work given enough people contributing. It's not like the content needs to be kept continuously up to date either (unless old videos disappear faster than new ones are added).
- vorpalhex 5y agoYoutube tries to "hook" you. Between autoplay and recommended thumbnails (that can't be disabled) it's easy to get "hijacked". The worst part is that recommendations aren't in line with the content level of what you are viewing.
- jannes 5y agoDon’t even try. You would basically have to rewrite the entire YouTube client to get rid of all the dark patterns.
- Nextgrid 5y agoIt's already done though: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
- spanktheuser 5y agoThe problem is that the business model of YT kids contact creators contains incentives similar to those of SEO farms operating in the Google keyword ecosystem. Good content is shouldered aside by low effort, low value, high profit messaging.