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Parental controls on children’s tech devices are out of touch with child’s play
(theconversation.com)
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My kid watches a ton of educational content, so I don't even necessarily want to block all of YouTube. I just want to be able to block individual videos and channels.
Or whitelist a bunch of channels or videos I'm happy with.
A YouTube whitelist would go a long way, but I think Google don't want you to do that. The ads are obviously another problem if you can't block them.
One option (if you are technical) is to use automation tools to subscribe to a whitelist of channels and pre-cache the videos locally.
Lol, easier to just get long form media and jellyfin it instead.
I know some countries, ads on TV are not allowed for kids. Some outlaw certain types of ads, like junk food. We could quite easily regulate them so that it's more profitable to not show ads and have proper parental controls.
I'm in Australia which is banning social media for kids and many online we're berating it as unworkable for things like YouTube. Well, they had plenty of time to get their house in order and chose short term profits instead.