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Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it

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Re: Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it

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What you described is clearly an algorithm. But i assume what you mean by “no algorithm” is that you are not using a machine learning based recommendation engine.

yeah definitely, mine is only a flat out get latest and sort. machine learning based recommendation engine is whole another level.

One could say "no advanced algorithms" without being too wordy about it. I suppose.

Re: Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it

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Hi, 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.

yes. the same here. and definitely why i created it. because there are wonderful videos and creators. and kids love them, of course. but the signal-to-noise on youtube and its recommendations boy they are scary.

Re: Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it

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This 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

Thank you sooooooooo much for supporting the idea and the project. Can not agree more and mega huge thanks for going the distance to recommend to others. Cheers.

Re: Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it

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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 ar…

don't get me wrong i love ai. but i want people to have a chance to just watch the videos from the channels they like. both are good.

plus, my bad idea was to keep everything shuffled until someone select a channel.

plus plus, i can't do what you said, i'm not that talented. :)

Re: Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it

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post #49

Nice idea! Does it play through the user’s logged-in account? Or in other words, will it use my YouTube Premium account to play the videos without ads?

that part is interestingly solved by youtube i guess. it actually does not play through user's account. but i also have premium, and never saw any ads. but must watch more i guess..
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