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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3929 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 4, 2023

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YouTube Kids is a piece of crap. I tried it on my kid's new tablet to avoid setting up a curated library, and it's been grating on my nerves.

YTK has two modes: blacklist, which lets you pick the age range, and whitelist, which lets you pick specific channels you want your kid to watch.

For some inane reason, you can only modify the whitelist from the YTK application, which is not the place I want to do it from, I want to do it from the comfort of my PC. You can't even switch it back on without using the tablet if you switch to the blacklist by mistake. All this makes the whitelist mode practically unusable.

In the blacklist mode YTK can't restrict the language the videos are in. Did you know Peppa Pig has been dubbed into two dozen different languages? And if you block the original episode that your kid has been watching for the last two hours on repeat, YTK will suggest it to him in every other language.

YTK has no convenient interface to learn what your kid's been watching or even what he's watching right now, beyond taking the tablet from him. There's no list of stuff you have blacklisted. There's no way to block whole playlists, which is super important when there are multiple shows on the same channel. You can set up a passcode, but changing anything non-trivial requires you to enter your Google password every. damn. time.

Is there anything else I could use instead without resorting to yt-dlp?

Where is the "wokeness" here? Is showing a same-sex couple inherently woke?

This is why you run your own Plex server. If you don't want to buy all the hardware, you can rent a seedbox that runs Plex. My kids only watch pre-2000 cartoons and movies.

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