Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed with YouTube

Re:Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed with YouTube by cjf101 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:39PM (#14914373)

This is brilliant. DNS + API is a really smart way to build this. If you haven't done it already, it would be pretty straightforward to post a notification to the child's device (via a companion app on selected platforms) as an additional cue to let them know that they'd used up their time.

I'm halfway tempted to set this up for _myself_. You're absolutely right that 30 minutes is gone in instant when you start in on online entertainment.

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Re:Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed with YouTube by utefan001 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:54PM (#14914555)

We plan to add GitHub progress tracking just for fun. Last year we had full PITM, parent in the middle support, instant YouTube video notification, search history, but 2 problems, I worried parent would login to bank on child's device, exposing creds to server and also, kids use crazy amount of gigs per day. Traffic volume to cloud http proxy was massive during tests.

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Re:Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed with YouTube by j_s on Saturday August 05, 2017 @11:45AM (#14936246)

Implement the proxy on-prem? (Raspberry Pi, etc.)

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Re:Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed with YouTube by utefan001 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:30PM (#15031112)

Yea, that is on our list.

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