I had to disable a net nanny, which I wish I could say required mAd hAX. I actually just persuaded an adult friend in Singapore to walk me through a troubleshooting process until we cracked it
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Kids aren't designed by default to process complexity without a little help, while Youtube's algorithms are designed to allow professionals to exploit them at 80 second intervals with almost no interaction. It's the kind of thing Ray Bradbury would start a riot if he saw.
What on earth are you talking about? Kids are designed to digest immense complexity.
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Adults and kids are both fairly stupid in front of a system that is designed to exploit the stimulus seeking behaviour that served us so well over our evolutionary history
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100000% agree with that. This isn't a question of "this is bad for kids" or "bad for adults", it's a question of "leaving a kid unsupervised in front of youtube is like leaving them in a casino with your credit card".
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We're not talking about the same thing; it is impossible to talk about this without using examples. This is NOT a question of "kids are stupid". This is a problem of Youtube's algorithms being practically hypnotic and in no way helping kids process the insanity they present.
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