Is it just me, or do Parental Control systems in popular apps basically not work at all for common use-cases?
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To be clear,
@wykittens is 18 months old. At this point, parental controls are mostly about keeping the main areas full of content designed for kids, and keeping him from inadvertently navigating to other kinds of content. It's a usability issue, and a very big one.Show this thread -
The relevant use-cases are easy to google for ("whitelist content youtube" "lock netflix device to one profile", etc) but the response from the app is always "sorry, we don't support that, have you tried <ineffective thing everyone already knows about>"
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It seems like "toddler mode" is simply not a use-case these companies are thinking about, despite the fact that huge numbers of parents are watching content with their toddlers (and many toddlers without their parents) on these sites.
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And in case you're tempted to say "the solution is to carefully control the videos your child is watching" that's like saying that diet and exercise is the solution to obesity.
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It's a good way for content providers to avoid even engaging with the use-case, but it's not particularly related to the reality of many parents.
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To give it a more positive spin, media companies that did a good job with the toddler use-case would be beloved by parents of toddlers ;)
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This is a wild, prejudiced, no facts to back it up statement: Perhaps because the people building these features are not parents themselves?
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