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>Luckily I realized quickly that kids play on the devices of parents and so the ads they might see are at times super inappropriate!

That was exactly what happen to my kids yesterday. I don't mind ads, but when they are inappropriate for the 5 years old I get really pissed off. And I wish Apple Arcade could come sooner so they don't get distracted with Ads.

It is the same reason I don't really allow them to watch Youtube unattended anymore. I wish there is some curated Kid Channel I can safely let them browse. ( Kid these days are extremely good with technologies )

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I mean the solution already exists and has existed since app store day one, you could just only let them play paid for games right now today.

Not sure why you have to wait for Apple Arcade.

Well, there's Youtube Kids: https://www.youtube.com/kids/

And on iOS, you can use Guided Access to keep them in the app. Not sure about Android.

Just a warning, if anyone tries to use youtube kids, you'd better use whitelisting.

I let my kids try out YouTube kids and I thought all the content was total garbage. Mostly toy unboxing videos, video game walkthroughs, and creepy knockoffs of cartoons they liked. Deleted it very quickly. We stick to DVDs and Netflix now.

Yes Guided Access is great. I default it to a 20min timeout. So if I let my 8 year old play Minecraft on it, and he runs off to some corner of the house to binge, I don't have to worry about hunting him down. He'll get a nice warning around 3min out, and then the phone will essentially brick itself. It's great knowing that he will absolutely be coming back to me with the phone in 20min.

Yeah, there's youtube kids!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-for-kids-videos-prob...

2018 you say? surely they've fixed things by now?

nope

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/03/youtube-sexualizes-childre...

etc.

and that's why none of my kids' devices have youtube on them anymore

Check out Tankee (https://www.tankee.com/) if your kids are into games.

We use Hulu Kids, since it's just proper kids shows and not the mind-numbing unboxing and algorithmic crap on YouTube Kids.

Check out GoNoodle

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