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Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube

As a parent of young kids…youtube is a complicated mess.

It is full of really great content; but YT kids sucks…so if you want access to the good stuff it is standard YT.

But the utter shit that shows up in the side bar and suggested videos is insane.

For older teens/adults; you don’t have to worry about the shit tier garbage that is suggested.

I block the ads, but that is a whole other level of cringe/inappropriate content that just gets shoved into videos; completely unrelated to what is on.

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You do know your kids don’t actually have to use youtube at all, right?

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- absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Well, obviously.
  
  Completely restricting, potentially the biggest and most accessible corpus of knowledge ever created, is not my goal.
  
  I’m trying to balance the good with the bad here.
  
  Example:
  Lichess training embedded videos are hosted on youtube; but can just be watched on youtube directly.
  
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shani66@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
As a not parent: it’s actually very simple, just parent your kids (not you specifically, unless it applies idk you).

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BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You can use uBlock Origin to block the recommended section or another play like FreeTube which allows you to disable that section entirely.

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- absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  uBlock is my go to for killing the ads.
  
  I’ll look into freetube, my 9yo has some cool interests but YT wants to drive engagement through whatever means necessary.
  
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