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Re:YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Priva... by dmix on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:54AM (#20844830)
Isn't there a YouTube kids version? I'm not a parent so I've never used it and I've been curious since I also see that Netflix had a cordoned off sections for kids too. I'm not sure if these are sufficient content and feature wise?

Also is there any parental consent thing going on here as well with how YouTube words it?

I remember seeing plenty of adult ads as a kid watching TV at night time watching with my parents. The morning kids shows and kids channels always had ads for children of course. Id imagine it's in YouTubes interest not to show kids adult ads as well, most adults probably aren't sitting around watching the same shows with them to make the adult ads useful.

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Re:YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Priva... by ryanjshaw on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:20AM (#20845047)
There is but it is not free from very disturbing issues (search for 'elsagate').

Also YouTube Kids has no quality controls. It uses more bandwidth, due to our hires tablet display I guess, than any other device in our household. Very annoying when on capped LTE on a trip.

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Re:YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Priva... by mav3rick on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:43AM (#20845247)
You can set video quality to a lower res.
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Re:YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Priva... by jan_g on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:56AM (#20845280)
There is and any parent giving their phone/tablet to young kids should at minimum make sure it's YouTube Kids they're watching. It doesn't have ads or comments section, for example. As for its content being sufficiently filtered or not - nowadays I think it is.

We, the parents, should of course try to minimize the amount of time our kids spend with youtube or in general with phones/tablets/TVs.

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