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YouTube Kids is awful It locks up regularly, such that I have to kill the app and restart it. They helpfully put a parental lock button right where a child wo

by influx 4y ago

YouTube Kids is awful It locks up regularly, such that I have to kill the app and restart it. They helpfully put a parental lock button right where a child would hold a phone, so they are constantly hitting the button, and bringing up a bright red screen interrupting the video. Seems like no one really gives a shit about it, I don’t know?

taeric 4y ago
This seems endemic to all parental things in tech. I swear most of them seem to be done with no user acceptance testing at all. Worse, I think most of them are built by people that don't use them. The general attitude seems to be that they can take the "build it, and they will come" approach. Who cares what people want, when you can build what you want them to want?
- irrational 4y ago
  I do wonder if they are being built by developers who have never had kids of their own.
  - taeric 4y ago
    Had this complaint with kindle's time limits. They have it by "weekend" and "weeknight." But... as a parent, I want "school night" versus "non-school night." And those aren't the same thing at all.
- jchw 4y ago
  After that whole debacle with YouTube and the COPPA, I sort-of wonder if YouTube Kids has to do with anything anyone actually wants, or if it's pretty much just there to serve some kind of purpose for their optics.
  - taeric 4y ago
    My take is that it is what they want. That is, they want parents to put in a fair bit of effort to get their kids engaged. This is backwards from what parents typically want, as managing another stream of content is obnoxious.
jedberg 4y ago
I won't let my kids use YTKids anymore. Besides the app issues, people have figured out how to game their algorithm, and you end up on either an unboxing video or some gore-scare in the middle of a kids video. My kids only get to use curated experiences where a human has actually picked the content (ie. pretty much every other Kids video app).

by influx 4y ago

taeric 4y ago

This seems endemic to all parental things in tech. I swear most of them seem to be done with no user acceptance testing at all. Worse, I think most of them are built by people that don't use them. The general attitude seems to be that they can take the "build it, and they will come" approach. Who cares what people want, when you can build what you want them to want?

irrational 4y ago
I do wonder if they are being built by developers who have never had kids of their own.
- taeric 4y ago
  Had this complaint with kindle's time limits. They have it by "weekend" and "weeknight." But... as a parent, I want "school night" versus "non-school night." And those aren't the same thing at all.
jchw 4y ago
After that whole debacle with YouTube and the COPPA, I sort-of wonder if YouTube Kids has to do with anything anyone actually wants, or if it's pretty much just there to serve some kind of purpose for their optics.
- taeric 4y ago
  My take is that it is what they want. That is, they want parents to put in a fair bit of effort to get their kids engaged. This is backwards from what parents typically want, as managing another stream of content is obnoxious.

jedberg 4y ago

I won't let my kids use YTKids anymore. Besides the app issues, people have figured out how to game their algorithm, and you end up on either an unboxing video or some gore-scare in the middle of a kids video. My kids only get to use curated experiences where a human has actually picked the content (ie. pretty much every other Kids video app).