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YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

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Post by techblueberry »

OccamsMirror wrote: post #68
techblueberry wrote: post #26

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Although I hate social media with a passion and would be fine if the government banned it outright, I don’t think this is a fair reading. Do toy manufacturers let their kids play with their toys 24 hours a day and not go outside or do homework? Video game devs? Parents are supposed to help their kids limit their time in everything. ‘He stressed “everything in moderation”’

> Do toy manufacturers let their kids play with their toys 24 hours a day and not go outside or do homework? I bet toy manufacturers have never had to think: "is this toy bad for my child's development?"

Really?

10 of the worst toys for your child’s learning and development:

https://ilslearningcorner.com/2018-12-learning-toys-10-of-th...

There are actually some pretty big risks especially in terms of like motor development, and considering now they’re adding a splash of AI to everything and a ton of toys have screens, well.

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

fullshark wrote: post #62
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #47

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It’s more convenient to use Apple’s parental control feature because you can set limits in one place.

My kid found work arounds for that. For example she reset the ipad's clock to give herself more time. It really is like a drug to these children and they will lash out at you if you take it away.

If you are HN you know how to RTFM, I guess.

The Fix: Lock it Down:

Go to Settings > Screen Time.

Tap Turn On Screen Time (if not already on) and set it up for your child.

Tap Use Screen Time Passcode and create a passcode that the child doesn't know.

Go to Content & Privacy Restrictions (under Screen Time) and turn it on.

Tap Allowed Apps (to disable camera/other apps if needed) and Change Restrictions.

Under Content & Privacy Restrictions, find Date & Time Changes and set it to Don't Allow Changes or Require Password.

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Post by mapontosevenths »

OccamsMirror wrote: post #67
Thorrez wrote: post #43

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>“We do limit their time on YouTube and other platforms and other forms of media. On weekdays we tend to be more strict, on weekends we tend to be less so. We’re not perfect by any stretch,” >He stressed “everything in moderation” is what works best for him and his wife, and that extends to other online services and platforms. >YouTube’s former CEO Susan Wojcicki, also barred her children from browsing videos on the…

My kids aren’t allowed on YouTube. I run a local system that mirrors approved channels to our home server and serves them through Plex. Creators lose ad revenue; that’s unfortunate. The alternative was nonstop ads on children’s content and a recommendation system pushing garbage. That trade-off was unacceptable.

Those ads are optional. You can just pay for it. Its actually pretty good value for the money.

Edit: I forgot to mention Family Link. Once you have a family membership (maybe even before?) You can also use Googles family link to enable a restricted mode that hides adult content for specific accounts.

You actually get a pretty great experience for the whole family for about $20/month.

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Post by mrweasel »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #60
concinds wrote: post #5

Meanwhile “normal” (neglectful) parents give iPads or internet-connected computers to 5-year olds. They never stood a chance.

It’s rarely quite that simple and I would try being a little more charitable towards people.

Exactly, it's a to easy to when people go "Simply set boundaries", "just do this", "use this". A lot of parents don't have a resources, either in terms of mental, energy, resource, knowledge and what not to fight and protect their children from things that are designed to be addictive, hell most of them are stuck in the same hell as their kids.

Not acknowledging that this stuff is hard, and being made unnecessarily hard by commercial interest show a lack of understand and respect for the situations. These also aren't bad parents, they try, but it's an uphill battle for many.

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Post by 627467 »

orochimaaru wrote: post #65

Screen time features exist on most devices. Parents - please set them up. It doesn’t take a lot of effort. I limit my kids for 1/2 hr of screen time per day. I exclude apps like iMessage, phone and maps. Yeah - they do ask for more time here and there. But it’s pretty well controlled and they adjust to it

Do you not find unrestricted iMessages to be problematic? Dont groups and content sharing in them end-up fomenting a similar doomscroll dynamic as access to other content rich apps?

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Post by HelloUsername »

mapontosevenths wrote: post #74
OccamsMirror wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My kids aren’t allowed on YouTube. I run a local system that mirrors approved channels to our home server and serves them through Plex. Creators lose ad revenue; that’s unfortunate. The alternative was nonstop ads on children’s content and a recommendation system pushing garbage. That trade-off was unacceptable.

Those ads are optional. You can just pay for it. Its actually pretty good value for the money. Edit: I forgot to mention Family Link. Once you have a family membership (maybe even before?) You can also use Googles family link to enable a restricted mode that hides adult content for specific accounts. You actually get a pretty great experience for the whole family for about $20/month.

Then you'd be giving money to the Google company as well. You can also look up the content creators and donate directly.

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Post by nkrisc »

mapontosevenths wrote: post #74
OccamsMirror wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My kids aren’t allowed on YouTube. I run a local system that mirrors approved channels to our home server and serves them through Plex. Creators lose ad revenue; that’s unfortunate. The alternative was nonstop ads on children’s content and a recommendation system pushing garbage. That trade-off was unacceptable.

Those ads are optional. You can just pay for it. Its actually pretty good value for the money. Edit: I forgot to mention Family Link. Once you have a family membership (maybe even before?) You can also use Googles family link to enable a restricted mode that hides adult content for specific accounts. You actually get a pretty great experience for the whole family for about $20/month.

Ads are only half the problem. The real problem with kids using YouTube is it's too easy for them to access any of the content on the platform.

If I could pay YouTube for the privilege of using an app where I choose exactly which videos are available, and no other video will ever appear on or can be accessed from that app, then I might pay for it.

IMO the only way YouTube can be kid-friendly is if there is an app where the primary utility is the ability to whitelist on a per video basis. There could be convenience methods like whitelisting an entire channel's videos with one action, but the whitelist needs to be built around a per video model.

Last I checked, they had nothing remotely like this as an option.

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Post by GlitchInstitute »

myko wrote: post #13
leosanchez wrote: post #10

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> Ye and Zuckerberg plugs the laptop mic with a dud cable. Are you talking about Kanye West ? also can you expand what this means? "plugs the laptop mic with a dud cable"

What they're saying is these folks don't trust the privacy of their hardware, they use a dud cable to block the microphone from listening. I think what they're getting at is people close to the situation (not sure why Ye is in the privacy discussion, but Zuck certainly is) don't trust the controls in place.

who has a dedicated mic input port in 2025? I doubt any CEOs do.

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Post by myko »

rightbyte wrote: post #18
myko wrote: post #13

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What they're saying is these folks don't trust the privacy of their hardware, they use a dud cable to block the microphone from listening. I think what they're getting at is people close to the situation (not sure why Ye is in the privacy discussion, but Zuck certainly is) don't trust the controls in place.

Appearantly there is a mixup risk using "ye" between "Kayne West" and "yeah" I wasn't aware of.

ah, yeah Kanye goes by "Ye"

I've never heard of "Ye" as meaning "Yeah" but I'm not as online as I once was (also from the US, maybe this is used elsewhere)

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