How can otherwise smart people accept being treated like brainless idiots by similar services is beyond me. And how can they teach their kids that's fine too is something I'll never understand... but hey its your kids, everybody sees quality of their parenting first hand (and then complain how kids are unruly and eat junk these days... gee I wonder where they took inspiration and who built their character).
An interesting thing I noticed is than initially when I used the app)(with the same YouTube profile) I would get worse video suggestions. These days they are the same in YouTube app as well as smartyoutubetv.
Another interesting observation is that if the app breaks and I start watching YouTube in their app the frequency of their ads is quite reasonable in the beginning. Few times I even thought. Hey, if they show me an ad every couple of videos that's not that bad right, I might switch back to YouTube. Then as the amount of content watched increases the amount of ads increases to the point of making it unwatchable (4 ad breaks in a 20min video, sometimes even double 40s ads one can't skip). This makes me go back.
A) Youtube's terms of service clearly state "not for kids under 13"[1]
B) Youtube has produced a product for the younger age market [2]
C) folks in this thread are reasonably complaining that full youtube isn't appropriate for children.
Am I missing something here? (Like maybe your child was using youtubekids and still got the unacceptable content?)
[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/children-youtube/#:~:te.... "While we permit users between the ages of 13 and 17 to register for an account with parental permission, we do not allow children under the age of 13 to create an account"
I'm using it in Japanese. Using the on-screen keyboard in Japanese mode, you can enter hiragana only. It doesn't do any word recognition to turn into kanji or katakana, which results in the search results being poor.
Nobody uses onscreen keyboards on Android TV for anything beyond entering a Wi-Fi password; it's a nonstarter.
YouTube Kids for Android TV ... ironically, just a toy for now ... with a well-deserved, accurate 1.4 star rating in the Play Store.
Something like, perhaps, the same standards and sense as in traditional broadcasting.
> Everything else is just a funnel
A funnel promoting pick up trucks and financial services to toddlers? Do they count that as an "impression" in the statistics that they feed the client? It seems like borderline fraud.
"My /own/ children don't see inappropriate ads; therefore there isn't any problem."
> Before complaining about broadcasting standards, maybe first up your parenting standards.
"Before whining for ice cream, maybe first eat your dinner!"
Youtube Premium has no ads.
My 3 going on 4 kid was watching a cartoon on Youtube: Curious George.
An ad popped up promoting some show, featuring foul language and sexual intercourse.
Yagoddabekidding.