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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The lack of curation on YouTube has been a source of frustration in our house for a long time. The kids just scroll down th
by swamp40 12y ago
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The lack of curation on YouTube has been a source of frustration in our house for a long time.
The kids just scroll down the list on the side of the viewer and hit whatever video they think looks interesting.
Then the next thing you hear is swearing, and there's no effective way to stop that from showing up on 100,000 other kid's feeds. (And it would be so easy to implement!)
Our kids love the variety of YouTube. Even Netflix is too slow and inconvenient for them.
- marpstar 12y agoThis is why I'm most excited about this too. It's too easy for kids to transition from cartoons to teenagers throwing stuff into ceiling fans. Interested to see just how far they take the curation.
- inanutshellus 12y agoLast week we were watching "Annie" music videos on YouTube with my four year old and a commercial for a horror movie comes on. It was a calamity. To stop the video, (which was being Chromecast onto my TV) I jumped to the couch to get my phone, waited for it to wake up, then spasmed on the screen trying to figure out how to exit or pause or whatever. It of course ignored me entirely. After all, the only reason I'd skip an ad is because I'm trying to bypass their ad-revenue. Le sigh. My wife is meanwhile trying to get my daughter's attention innocuously so she won't watch a dead, rotting woman attack a little boy. ... Needless to say, this change is welcome.