iincuser | 7 years ago | on: How Peppa Pig became a video nightmare for children
As a parent in the IT world for the past 15yrs (with a background in networks, servers, etc) I find it difficult to reasonably block YouTube from my pre-teen kids. I can delete from their devices, I can set parental controls, etc but somehow they were always able to find some kind of way to watch it. I finally had to tie all smart TVs and devices to a local dns server in my home and filter all in/out traffic as a last resort. Most parents don’t have the slightest clue how to do something like this and I see my kids friends with pretty much open access to the internet and YouTube and it’s very disconcerting.. plus I’ve seen some of the “kid friendly” crap on YouTube, like catching my kids watching adults giving product reviews of toys (basically marketing to them about why they would want the toy) that is marked as kid safe. It’s hours and hours of let’s look at this toy, let’s talk about what it does and why you “need” it. It’s utterly absurd and a form of predatory marketing. I know there are some positive things about YouTube like when I can lookup a quick instructional video on how to do something but in whole, I’d rather see YouTube just completely shutdown.