Nice. Thanks for sharing.
So far I'm less worried about the content my kids watch than the ads that get injected. Even "kids ads" are horrible (by my standards.)
SmartTube on androidTV gets rid of those for me and NewPipe on the phone. NewPipe also keeps playing when you turn off the screen and lets you adjust speed.. It is the better Youtube.
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#12Hey I created https://freetvz.com you just gave me a good idea. I have a "Create a TV channel" feature that allows you to enter youtube channel handles to create your own personalised TV channel. I am going to do this for my kids.
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#13this looks like youtube kids from youtube itself, what are the differences between the two? I use youtube kids for my own kids on our iPads, which works somewhat fine, a bit clunky to add channels and to use it for offline watching though.
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#14Nice. Thanks for sharing. So far I'm less worried about the content my kids watch than the ads that get injected. Even "kids ads" are horrible (by my standards.) SmartTube on androidTV gets rid of those for me and NewPipe on the phone. NewPipe also keeps playing when you turn off the screen and lets you adjust speed.. It is the better Youtube.
I don't know how they work, but have noticed that many general filters (eg, Netspark or Netfree) remove all ads from Youtube.
Make the experience so much better for all videos, and entirely removes most of the obnoxious ones.
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#15This is nice. It's a disgrace that Youtube does not have the option to allow only certain channels for a kids' account, but of course it brings Google more money to trap kids in endless video garbage, so here we are.
I made a similar setup for my kids, but simply locally using Freetube (https://freetubeapp.io/).
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#16I use kidoodle.tv — all the kids content I want, for free, legally.
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#17I was working on this myself! Also my family uses the name beechwood (its a street we grew up on). Is this an alternative universe? Love the implementation. I'd really like to block Youtube on my firewall but let it through via this tool with a proxy or something. Can I get this to load on the SmartTV, too?
I also grew up on Beechwood. Small world :)
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#18This is nice. It's a disgrace that Youtube does not have the option to allow only certain channels for a kids' account, but of course it brings Google more money to trap kids in endless video garbage, so here we are. I made a similar setup for my kids, but simply locally using Freetube ( https://freetubeapp.io/ ).
I can manually curate YouTube kids. There’s no suggestions outside the curated channels and auto play can be disabled. What’s the problem?
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#19this looks like youtube kids from youtube itself, what are the differences between the two? I use youtube kids for my own kids on our iPads, which works somewhat fine, a bit clunky to add channels and to use it for offline watching though.
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume OP is similar to all of my friends and missed the fact you can manually curate yt kids? Yt kids is also odd because you need to be signed in as the parent and the kids account isn’t its own independent account.
Perhaps this solves the fatal flaw that your kid has to have your google account signed into their tablet to watch yt kids. I got my child their own tablet, created a child Google account, signed into the Android tablet with it, and then I was unable to restrict what they watched. Best I could do was the young child algorithm, but there’s still so much trash.
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#20This is nice. It's a disgrace that Youtube does not have the option to allow only certain channels for a kids' account, but of course it brings Google more money to trap kids in endless video garbage, so here we are. I made a similar setup for my kids, but simply locally using Freetube ( https://freetubeapp.io/ ).
I can manually curate YouTube kids. There’s no suggestions outside the curated channels and auto play can be disabled. What’s the problem?
Can you share the process? I did not know this either.