I spent 3 months researching strange and distressing YouTube videos designed to attract the searches of parents & pre-school children, uploaded in large numbers and sometimes actively recommended by YouTube's suggestion algorithms.
On @WiredUK today: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-for-kids-videos-problems-algorithm-recommend …
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I also looked into YouTube's restricted modes, third-party tools, and the worryingly inadequate capabilities of YouTube Kids, which in many countries (including the UK and France) lacks the block and playlist features that the US version was updated with last year.pic.twitter.com/dwNkTzM58s
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I should note that YouTube has been extremely prompt at removing truly upsetting content as we've reported it, but there's so much of it that individual user reports are just a drop in the ocean.pic.twitter.com/fTa7GUTwnc
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I'll be publishing my research methodology later, once I've got the Finger Family song out of my head. I'd also like to thank
@HelloAlgo's@gchaslot for providing insight and for developing tools that helped confirm the patterns I was seeing.https://github.com/pnbt/youtube-explore …1 reply 2 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
I feel that the lack of a user-controlled video and channel blocking feature is a marked problem for both young and adult viewers of YouTube. In the absence of such tools, I recommend using browser-based video blockers such ashttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-blocker/jknkjnpcbbgcbdbaampbjlhkcghmgfhk?hl=es …
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While YouTuze Pro for Android is a whitelist-based app that provides a more controllable viewing experience than any of YouTube's own apps. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mikiex.youtuze.pro&hl=en_GB …
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Until @TeamYouTube makes it so that I can choose to blacklist EVERYTHING by default, and ONLY whitelist playlists, channels, or individual videos I specifically choose AND NOTHING ELSE, my kids have been banned from using @YouTube at all. It's a wasteland out there and I hate it.
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