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

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

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Post by fma »

romuloab42 wrote: post #26
nightcracker wrote: post #12

Wow, a whitelisted, non-algorithmic feed of videos! Oh wait, do you mean... a playlist?

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 of the auto caption. Will need to find some other solution...

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Post by spraak »

tomstockmail wrote: post #15
spraak wrote: post #11

Are there any apps that just let you select specific videos or playlists? That is, I'd like something even more customizable.

I don't know of any apps that do this exactly, so maybe if you want to stay within YouTube you could try restricting to a playlist. But that still has the possibility of random videos playing at some point. I've also been looking for something that allows me to loop videos, although that's more for creating a TV-channel like loop for my grandparents. To be safe in this situation I'd just use something like youtube-dl…

Cool, thanks for your help!

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Post by fma »

tomstockmail wrote: post #15
spraak wrote: post #11

Are there any apps that just let you select specific videos or playlists? That is, I'd like something even more customizable.

I don't know of any apps that do this exactly, so maybe if you want to stay within YouTube you could try restricting to a playlist. But that still has the possibility of random videos playing at some point. I've also been looking for something that allows me to loop videos, although that's more for creating a TV-channel like loop for my grandparents. To be safe in this situation I'd just use something like youtube-dl…

I'm in need of a similar solution. Only thing I've thought of is to record my own video that is like 1 hour long of just a screen that has text like "end of playlist"...and have that at the end of every playlist.

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

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Post by throwaway93192 »

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 a window into the internet I can safely hand over to my As an ex-googler who saw the way some (a few) PMs made decisions with their own Impact (aka career) in mind, I can cynically imagine them choosing the algorithmic method because at Google you must scale, and you get promoted by launching a cool machine learning product and not a product with <200 channels that were hand-selected (that's boring!). But as a parent all I wanted was just a few channels. Some disney, some science, etc.

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Post by adorton »

magoon wrote: post #19

But not for Chromebook. It’s amazing how high & dry parents are left without options for their kids to use a Chromebook. You wouldn’t believe it until you see for yourself.

A few months ago, my Chromebook was updated to support Android apps. YouTube Kids should be available on the Play store assuming your Chromebook is updated to support it.

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Post by rasz »

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…

Its trivial on the desktop with one of the extensions/userscripts, both hiding suggestions and autoplaying what you select.

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

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Post by rasz »

spraak wrote: post #11

Are there any apps that just let you select specific videos or playlists? That is, I'd like something even more customizable.

ImprovedTube extension, hide suggestions, disable player end screen, subscribe to channels you want - you will only see videos from your Subscription feed.

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

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Post by CrystalLangUser »

sintaxi wrote: post #36
jstanley wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What "MKUltra patterns" do they follow?

Normalization of trauma and injury. The red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme. Repetition of bugs, knives, needles, and bodily fluids.

> red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme

Is there an actual explanation for this? Those are everyday colors... or have I been living on planet earth as an unwitting MKUltra subject?

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

77ko wrote: post #34

The safest way to use YouTube with kids is to download videos offline using youtube-dl or one of its front ends and use an app like VLC to play them. Kids shouldn't be accessing YouTube directly. It really is bad. A simple example: looking for videos for a school women's history day thingamajig, YouTube kept recommending outright twisted videos which were sort of women's history but algorithmically generated and just…

I do agree with this but getting that curation tonwork sounds - interesting

it's almost something i could use the social graph to do ...

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

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Post by sintaxi »

CrystalLangUser wrote: post #48
sintaxi wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Normalization of trauma and injury. The red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme. Repetition of bugs, knives, needles, and bodily fluids.

> red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme Is there an actual explanation for this? Those are everyday colors... or have I been living on planet earth as an unwitting MKUltra subject?

Please show me where in every day those five colours show up together.
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