what would you suggest as a demo, i'm sensing it is also what i did wrong/missing.
free account is not a demo enough? maybe some video? some gif? some screenshots?
Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it
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#32Behind the signup form is a thumbnail for this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaiKVF2QhnM It's definitely not one I'd choose to showcase for child safety.
removed that channel from the loop at least, for now. :(
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#33i guess i already hit some quotas somewhere. i'm very sorry. i wasn't expecting this. :(
kinda fixed the quota troubles.
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#34> Just select the channels you love, paste their IDs. [feature request] That's too technical. add all the other way to get to the chanell like https://www.youtube.com/@Disney https://www.youtube.com/Disney https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_5niPa-d35gg88HaS7RrIw and the youtu.be version and even paste one video and get the full channel. > No algorithms. Why? I like algorithms. I used yahoo seach untill altavista crea…
>> No algorithms
> Why? I like algorithms.
>> No recommendations
> Not sugesting them is a huge win.
Feels contradictory. They’re both just algorithms.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
noted the feature requests, thank you. already started working on the channel name thingy. i also like algorithms but i decided it was not for kids, when i saw a friends little son watching video of a toy spiderman being bathed by a toy barbie acted by an old bald russian man, i decided it was not for kids. :) also i would like to watch the latest high rated videos from only my favorite channels while i'm having a sa…
Agreed, YouTube Kids is not always for kids. There is some very weird, sinister stuff on there that isn't in-your-face obvious. Stuff like that is just weird, it's definitely better to approve certain channels and keep the kiddos from getting pulled into any algorithms!
I mainly use YouTube through the app (although I’m slowly moving off it using RSS and yt-dlp) and my account can’t watch age restricted videos because I’m not that keen on giving google my drivers license or credit card. The amount of totally normal content being age restricted and the amount of highly questionable or outright disturbing or inappropriate content marked as “for kids” is mind boggling. Especially when you consider everything that’s neither age restricted or for kids.
Re: Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it
#36For our house all we need is Blippi, Ms Rachel, and Super Simple Play with Caitie! Maybe add some popular channels that can be shared with a quick link to use your tool. Or a way to chain them together with a simple UrL parameter ChanelID1+ChanelID2 etc
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#37Hi, this is a very simple Youtube playing companion, to watch what you actually choose. I'm a father and a developer. My children needed this. So, I'm lucky I could build it. This became also my preferred Youtube watching experience. Please try?
I’ve been looking for this for 2 years for my 5 1/2 year old. Ultimately, I deleted the YouTube app and don’t allow the website anymore (content was only through Netflix and Disney+). But now we’ll give it another try. Thanks for writing this.
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#38This is exactly what YouTube Kids should be. Instead, because if the algo, because of the suggestions, it's a mind-numbing hell scape of complete trash.
Great job! Gonna recommend this to everyone at my kid's school
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#39> Just select the channels you love, paste their IDs. [feature request] That's too technical. add all the other way to get to the chanell like https://www.youtube.com/@Disney https://www.youtube.com/Disney https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_5niPa-d35gg88HaS7RrIw and the youtu.be version and even paste one video and get the full channel. > No algorithms. Why? I like algorithms. I used yahoo seach untill altavista crea…
noted the feature requests, thank you. already started working on the channel name thingy. i also like algorithms but i decided it was not for kids, when i saw a friends little son watching video of a toy spiderman being bathed by a toy barbie acted by an old bald russian man, i decided it was not for kids. :) also i would like to watch the latest high rated videos from only my favorite channels while i'm having a sa…
Algoritm may be deciding which episodes to repeat more often, or if channels shouls be interleaved. (If a channel has 5 min videos and other 30 in videos, do you show one of each or 6 to 1?).
I agree that using algorithms torecomend crappy videos from other channels is bad, but it's not the only use https://xkcd.com/534/
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#40Behind the signup form is a thumbnail for this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaiKVF2QhnM It's definitely not one I'd choose to showcase for child safety.
removed that channel from the loop at least, for now. :(
Using AI could have prevented this. So the no AI, or algorithms can be also a negative thing as the example shows. I understand not using it for recommendation because it still has false positives, but using it for filtering could have prevented this. And false negatives for filtering is not so bad and could be just used to put filtered videos in a list that the parent can review, in the case that some good videos are getting accidentally filtered.