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

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Post by barbazoo »

conception wrote: post #85
nkrisc wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 whe…

Youtube Kids has this. You can turn on a whitelisted content only mode. Then only content you share with the kids account shows up. Approved content only mode.

At which point I might as well put it on plex, same effort for tech savvy people.

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Post by orochimaaru »

627467 wrote: post #76
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?

Not a whole lot of doomscrolling. There is more engagement - but I’ve resigned to the fact that it’s how kids communicate. For example - if they need to discuss homework or projects or even something simple as plan for boba tea.

I’d rather they walk to their friends’ place. But now they make the plan and then walk to where they need to be.

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

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Post by nkrisc »

conception wrote: post #85
nkrisc wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 whe…

Youtube Kids has this. You can turn on a whitelisted content only mode. Then only content you share with the kids account shows up. Approved content only mode.

Thanks, good to know. Either it didn't exist when I last tried to research it, or I just couldn't find it.

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

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Post by conception »

This thread is person after person saying “oh wow, person who sells terrible thing for humanity doesn’t let their kids have unlimited access to terrible thing! It’s so obvious. This isn’t news.”

The news is that the CEO of youtube is saying that Youtube is something that should be limited and he thinks harm will come to his children if he does not. This may be obvious to people on this site but a lot of normal people think it’s fine. It’s shocking as for a lot of people it’s more like “CEO of cucumber farm limits cucumbers for their child!” As that’s how Google markets youtube for kids.

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Post by lII1lIlI11ll »

HelloUsername wrote: post #77
mapontosevenths wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Will creators also serve you their content directly?

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Post by conception »

barbazoo wrote: post #91
conception wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Youtube Kids has this. You can turn on a whitelisted content only mode. Then only content you share with the kids account shows up. Approved content only mode.

At which point I might as well put it on plex, same effort for tech savvy people.

Plex + archive.org is the best. So many great kids shows on there to grab.

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

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Post by neom »

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.

I always think if I had kids this is how I'd do it also. I'm an adult who I think has fairly decent critical thinking skills and also is familiar with the state of technology etc etc. Well, I was following the news on 3I/ATLAS and I caught myself watching a youtube channel that I genuinely thought was Michio Kaku, I'd heard him talk once and it sounded and looked like him, so I put it on, switch tabs and listen as I work. I didn't notice it was AI (in retrospect I should have) but after a couple of days of watching it, I started to think...either this guy is worse than Avi Lobe or this channel is fake, the channel was fake and the content was, probably.. 2 or 3 steps removed from reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMAFnTANx6A / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXxGWD_dtL0 / https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michio+kaku+3i+...

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

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Post by dmix »

conception wrote: post #94

This thread is person after person saying “oh wow, person who sells terrible thing for humanity doesn’t let their kids have unlimited access to terrible thing! It’s so obvious. This isn’t news.” The news is that the CEO of youtube is saying that Youtube is something that should be limited and he thinks harm will come to his children if he does not. This may be obvious to people on this site but a lot of normal people…

To me it seems like basic parenting to limit access to tech.

It wasn’t healthy for kids to just play video games every day for 5hrs straight after school in the 90s either. But that also doesn’t mean they should never have had a PlayStation or all gaming is bad.

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