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Incidentally I’ve been working on a parental controls app, which has some YouTube specific functionality. Currently it only gives you the ability to block YouTu

Incidentally I’ve been working on a parental controls app, which has some YouTube specific functionality. Currently it only gives you the ability to block YouTube shorts, but more channel-specific functionality is coming https://www.parentcontrols.win/ https://www.parentcontrols.win/ Admittedly I think it'll be hard for youtube (and similar sites) to build proper child filters and habits. Not because they're bad people or anything, just because it's too opposed to their incentives

feoren 2y ago
> Not because they're bad people or anything, just because it's too opposed to their incentives What a ridiculous turn of phrase. "I kill and eat other human beings, not because I'm a bad person or anything, just because it is my incentive to do so." Those incentives are self-imposed. Having self-created incentives to do bad things is what makes you a bad person.
- snapplebobapple 2y ago
  i dont know how you can have such a strong opinion on cannibalism without trying it first. If attending a liberal arts college has taught me anything its that morality is relative and you shouldn't judge anything (except white people) without experiencing it.
philips 2y ago
I have thought about building something like this but it felt like building an ad blocking business: constantly doing wack a mole or fighting lawsuits. How are you thinking about those problems?
- guywithahat 2y ago
  COPPA regulations are certainly a concern; right now we save no child data and have a COPPA compliant terms of use/etc. In the future we'll have to save data (if only so parents know when their kid is using their computer), but we're in talks with lawyers and will hopefully have more custom and thorough processes for it. We also only operate in the US which simplifies things.
squigz 2y ago
I'm glad the response to your post didn't dissuade you from protecting our children from the plight of atheism and /r/antiwork

feoren 2y ago

> Not because they're bad people or anything, just because it's too opposed to their incentives What a ridiculous turn of phrase. "I kill and eat other human beings, not because I'm a bad person or anything, just because it is my incentive to do so." Those incentives are self-imposed. Having self-created incentives to do bad things is what makes you a bad person.

snapplebobapple 2y ago
i dont know how you can have such a strong opinion on cannibalism without trying it first. If attending a liberal arts college has taught me anything its that morality is relative and you shouldn't judge anything (except white people) without experiencing it.

philips 2y ago

I have thought about building something like this but it felt like building an ad blocking business: constantly doing wack a mole or fighting lawsuits. How are you thinking about those problems?

guywithahat 2y ago
COPPA regulations are certainly a concern; right now we save no child data and have a COPPA compliant terms of use/etc. In the future we'll have to save data (if only so parents know when their kid is using their computer), but we're in talks with lawyers and will hopefully have more custom and thorough processes for it. We also only operate in the US which simplifies things.

squigz 2y ago

I'm glad the response to your post didn't dissuade you from protecting our children from the plight of atheism and /r/antiwork