Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by slothtrop on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:25AM
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Sure, but you still can't police the content your kids watch there passively, while conversely with Netflix or cable you can set it and forget it.
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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by Minor49er on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:41AM
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If parents are relying on "setting it and forgetting it", that's not policing at all. Youtube Kids was supposed to be a solution like this where the site would offer filtered videos for children, but it quickly resulted in the so-called Elsagate scandal where children were targeted with videos depicting things like violence, drug use, and sexual activity