YouTube Kids Concerns

Parents and users criticize YouTube and YouTube Kids for inappropriate content, poor recommendations, addiction risks, and inadequate parental controls, often suggesting blocking access or manual curation.

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krupan Nov 5, 2023 View on HN

Just block YouTube, your kids will find other things to do. If you find a good video then watch it with them on your device

conductr Mar 1, 2025 View on HN

My kid is still too young for YT and I’m not sure what age group you’re targeting but there’s a huge mass of people that do not like YT for the early years. And try to avoid it for as long as possible. I think this is a niche to tap into if you are interested in monetizing this as a better experience for these types of parents. This could be the toddler to 10+ just whenever parent decides to allow it but wants to do it in a controlled way. I don’t know if I’m in the minority, because I’m kind of

Minor49er Apr 14, 2021 View on HN

Knowing that that's what the kids are watching, why are you still allowing them to have access to YouTube?

29athrowaway Jan 29, 2023 View on HN

You mean YouTube Kids has questionable content?

shemtay May 29, 2025 View on HN

i had the same experience. my solution was to configure youtube kids to only show my whitelist of mannually approved videos.

gillyb Oct 29, 2025 View on HN

Yes. YouTube kids in my experience wasn't enough - I didn't like the fact that it had recommendations of more videos to watch on the side, which allowed kids to move to another video every 10 seconds. Also, you need to manually block channels you don't like, so you keep discovering more channels when they've already watched them and it's too late.

artur_makly May 11, 2018 View on HN

youtube kids should have better addiction and content controls

gdevenyi Apr 23, 2025 View on HN

FYI YouTube kids is not a safe place.

mixmastamyk Jan 18, 2022 View on HN

Youtube is not for kids; TOS does not allow it.

jamra Apr 9, 2018 View on HN

Your parents had youtube? The internet?Have you seen what kind of bait and switch content is on youtube? It can look like a children's show, but turn out to be something really creepy.If you think it's the job of parents to curate content, that's also fine, but youtube should allow for a feature that lets you whitelist content.It sounds like you had lovely parents, though. Congratulations.