YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App

Re:YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algor... by username223 on Sunday April 08, 2018 @08:51AM (#16785882)

Both can be true at the same time. 4chan is basically about pointing and laughing at things on the internet, right? So it doesn't matter much whether they're gaming YT's algorithm to show disturbing things to kids, or pointing to other people doing it.

(Also, I find it weird to give a kindergartener unsupervised access to any internet device. They don't understand the threats they're confronting.)

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Re:YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algor... by mcphage on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:21AM (#16802003)

> Also, I find it weird to give a kindergartener unsupervised access to any internet device. They don't understand the threats they're confronting.

That was the selling point of Youtube Kids—it wasn't supposed to be unsupervised access to the internet. It was supposed to be curated.

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Re:YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algor... by username223 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:19PM (#16804920)

Letting a multi-billion-dollar surveillance company show more or less whatever it wants to very young children seems like a bad idea. We tried a very primitive version of this model a couple decades ago, with Saturday morning cartoons interspersed with ads selling sugary cereal, and the results were not great.

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