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YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App

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Post by garmaine »

fma wrote: post #41
romuloab42 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we could restrict the app to just play videos of a single playlist, life would be great. But today it is very easy for kids to exit playlist mode, thus defeating the purpose of curating a playlist.

My wife's business has a TV that plays some videos from YouTube of her company in the waiting room. At the end of the Playlist pops up videos from competitors. In the past it would autoplay those and it was embarassing but at least I turned that off. She pays for YouTube Red. There is no way for YouTube to not autosuggest, or to repeat the videos in a Playlist over and over. I decided for her to use YouTube because o…

Upload to YouTube for the captions, then youtube-dl to a VLC playlist or something? (Or to be a bit more pro, snag the captions from the download and remix them into the original source.)

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Post by ReverseCold »

throwaway93192 wrote: post #44

Parent and long-time ex-googler. I'm baffled that the original YT Kids was not whitelisted, and in fact I uninstalled it from my little one's ipads a long time ago. They were watching a Trolls (Dreamworks) animation, and I thought "boy, the writing on this isn't very good, but whatever". Then the plot started to become kinda bizarre and I realized it was a fake. As a user, I felt duped by YT Kids, who had promised me…

People vote with their actions time and time again that they do not care if they are tracked.

If you want a future without all this happening, stop giving your kids YouTube in the first place.

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Post by pmlnr »

ReverseCold wrote: post #82
throwaway93192 wrote: post #44

Parent and long-time ex-googler. I'm baffled that the original YT Kids was not whitelisted, and in fact I uninstalled it from my little one's ipads a long time ago. They were watching a Trolls (Dreamworks) animation, and I thought "boy, the writing on this isn't very good, but whatever". Then the plot started to become kinda bizarre and I realized it was a fake. As a user, I felt duped by YT Kids, who had promised me…

People vote with their actions time and time again that they do not care if they are tracked. If you want a future without all this happening, stop giving your kids YouTube in the first place.

Google has a lot of subscription services as well; this could be one of those, without exploiting kids.

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Post by pjc50 »

pfarnsworth wrote: post #76
borne0 wrote: post #8

Hmm, my nephew already saw pepa pig having her teeth extracted on YouTube kids so I'm gonna say this is too little too late.

The good thing for YouTube is that more kids are being born every day. They can sacrifice all existing kids and still have more new users going forward.

> sacrifice all existing kids

Poor choice of language, Herod.

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Post by andrepd »

mayniac wrote: post #37
borne0 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's over thinking it a bit, youtube algos are easy to manipulate and a single thread on 4chan can create a fair bit of weird media, for the explicit intent of creating weird media.

I do prefer the 4chan theory, since it satisfies Occam's Razor. That said, the frequency of new videos from multiple channels dedicated to nothing but these videos, as well as the monetisation, makes it unlikely. Also considering the number of subscribers the subreddit has I'm sure that if there were any new 4chan threads suggesting people make those videos it would've been spotted. It's honestly the sheer number of…

The cause is algorithms run amok. Find popular keywords: Elsa, Frozen, Fidget Spinner, Sexual. Have an AI mix these in whatever weird way and churn out nightmare fuel to kids, in exchange for big fat ad revenue. Kids, more easily manipulated, and with a whole life as consumers ahead of them, are valuable targets...
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