Re:Ask HN: Why is making a good recommendation system for Yo...
by mooreds on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:41PM
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> For point two, I don't think you're correct. Kids under 13 can have accounts, but only with parental approval.
Sure, but how many parents are going to go to the trouble of setting up a separate account? Much more likely they'll just let the kid use their account.
Re:Ask HN: Why is making a good recommendation system for Yo...
by DanBC on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @01:27PM
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Can you show me where on Youtube I can set up an account for an under 13 year old?
https://support.google.com/families/answer/7124142?hl=en
> When you use Family Link to create a Google Account for your child under 13, your child can use the YouTube Kids app where it’s available. However, they can't use any other YouTube apps, websites, or features until they turn 13 and manage their own Google Account. Your child will be able to use YouTube if you added supervision to their previously existing Google Account.
Re:Ask HN: Why is making a good recommendation system for Yo...
by jsnell on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:15PM
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It seems to me that the last sentence you quoted (on accounts that had supervision added to them) has to be talking about use of YouTube generally, not just YouTube Kids.
If they did behave the same way, why list this as a special case but with totally different langauge.
For point two, I don't think you're correct. Kids under 13 can have accounts, but only with parental approval.
For point three, you're totally right. But if you think through the implications, every aspect of that seems like an incredibly hard problem to solve. And at least my expectation is that you wouldn't get most users to actually interact with that system, since it is too complex. The perfect example of a power user feature that would get killed a few years later as expensive to maintain and little usage.