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Comment by bradgessler | Hacker News Reader

What aggravates me about YouTube is there's some great content that would be amazing for kids, but it's mixed with lots of garbage. Since YouTube doesn't provide any reasonable way for people to curate and share these allow lists with others, I end up completely blocking it on various devices, resulting in less hours of viewership for YouTube.

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The way they handle YouTube Kids is bizarre, the YT moderators can unilaterally decide that a channel is appropriate for kids with no easy way for the channel owner to contest that decision. That's repeatedly led to adult-oriented animations and mature parodies of kids shows getting the official YouTube Kids seal of approval against the wishes of the actual creator.

Maybe I'm being too generous by assuming there are moderators making the decisions, it's probably an algorithm.

YouTube Kids is bizarre in many ways. Why can‘t I add such a video to a play list (or at least „watch later“), if it‘s marked as for children?

And why can't I play the audio in the background? These decisions make zero sense.

That's deliberate, they do let you play audio in the background if you pay for YT Premium. I think hacked clients like ReVanced can enable it for free.

Yeah I use revanced, but find that if I minimize the video, it pauses; I don't have this issue with other vids. I need to switch focus out of the app entirely to actually get it to continue playing.

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