I don’t blame eSafety, to be honest. They can only do what the Parliament legislates for them to do. And Parliament has done a terrible job.
But yeah, they’re definitely unofficial workarounds. I agreed wholeheartedly with your prior comment, and just suggested these workarounds as good options you might find useful for yourself, personally. (While you’re at it, Sponsorblock, and potentially DeArrow, both of which are included as options in ReVanced or as separate browser extensions, are really great.)
Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 5 days ago
For my youngest I use pipepipe on an android tablet.
No ads.
No feed / recommendations.
Just the channels I subscribe to.
The final straw with stock android apps was years ago with my eldest when it showed an add for women’s g strings in the middle of a fucking educational video about cats.
shirro@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Yep. The ads are worse than the content. I am sure the government doesn’t care. They love that industry almost as much as the gambling and mining industries. I was happy to pay family premium and have some portion of the revenue go to creators though I wasn’t happy about the multiple price rises.
I would be ad blocking and using specialized apps if I had little kids but I gave my little kids ABC for Kids and a media library instead when they were young. They are older now and I want them to learn to be responsible media consumers with some assistance. I also want them to be able to use their settings across a wide range of devices. They have access to a large number of devices with an assortment of operating systems. A kiosk solution isn’t what I am looking for. Youtube’s family accounts and premium gave me everything apart from removing shorts and front page which I could do with browser extensions. Those last two are what should have been regulated IMO.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Yeah same. I was a super early adopter in fact, and paid for it back when it was called YouTube Red. But then in the wake of Elsagate, YouTube cracked down on a bunch of long-established good creators, cutting off small-time creators from any revenue, and introducing stricter algorithmic checks on bigger creators. That was the last straw for me, after years of them doing the wrong thing by creators by ignoring fair use and censoring valuably content. I cut off my Red subscription then and there, and started installing adblockers.