I just avoid YouTube altogether for my child. There are some really good TV network apps like Barnkanalen SVT (Sweden), ZDF/KIKA (Deutschland) that make quality content, have no ads and are free. And no risk of watching something I don't want them to.
Same here. Also all the big streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu) have kids sections with quality children's programming. I don't understand why parents let loose their kids on YouTube when these alternatives exist.
> Also all the big streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu) have kids sections with quality children's programming.
All of them are absolutely swamped with hypercommercial psychologically manipulative selling-toys-to-kids programming, though it's from big corps so I guess that makes it okay.
> I don't understand why parents let loose their kids on YouTube when these alternatives exist.
Because YouTube, for all it's real problems, is both cheaper (free with ads) than the others and has a huge trove of excellent kid-appropriate content (including professionally produced stuff like the National Geographic Science 101 series) that isn't (AFAIK) on any of the other platforms and because most people aren't familiar with the horror stories, or if they are (accurately or not) interpret then as extreme edge cases, not likely events.
> I don't understand why parents let loose their kids on YouTube when these alternatives exist.
Yes, especially with all the horror stories of weird videos that I've read about even here in HN.
