Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by ElCapitanMarkla on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:06PM (#44740588)

Hmmm I'll check it out, I last looked into this about a year ago. I'm pretty sure it still allowed a bunch of crap through that I didn't want them to have access to.

edit: Oh neat they do have a parental approval mode in there now. Last time I was in here they only let you set an age range for the content that you wanted. It still seems a bit weird though, I can select a channel from the list they are presenting me but I can't search for some arbitrary channel to unlock. I'll have another look tonight though

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by modeless on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:51PM (#44740902)

Yeah the interface in the Kids app sucks. The way to do it is from your own phone. Use the "share" feature and choose "with kids". It takes a lot of taps to share a channel, that could be improved for sure. But if you share good channels as you come across them then over time you'll build up a great library of content for your kids.

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by ElCapitanMarkla on Thursday July 31, 2025 @03:32PM (#44749226)

Ahh "sharing" the magic, cool thanks.

The UX is a complete fail, my comment having a moan about it all has over 90 upvotes now, yet I'm wrong. But the reason I'm wrong is because they've made it painfully hard to manage.

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by modeless on Thursday July 31, 2025 @06:26PM (#44750859)

Agreed the UX is terrible.

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