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That's why I don't let my kids watch YouTube on their own... That said, as a European I'm more triggered by all the gore and violence rather than some naked skin (although I also wouldn't want sub-12 year olds encounter explicitly sexual stuff). The later seems to just lead to questions and adult conversations, but the normalised violence the kids seem to act out.



I second the violence thing. I has somehow become the new normal in the teenager world which is very disturbing to me. In my family we strictly use only Firefox with ublock for youtube (and the rest of the internet too). The difference is night an day. I always recommend it to friends of mine and every time I get positive feedback after this.


Once or twice I didn't use Firefox with ublock origin on youtube, and since I am pretty allergic to any ads as they insult my intelligence I just closed the whole page before getting to the content.

How can otherwise smart people accept being treated like brainless idiots by similar services is beyond me. And how can they teach their kids that's fine too is something I'll never understand... but hey its your kids, everybody sees quality of their parenting first hand (and then complain how kids are unruly and eat junk these days... gee I wonder where they took inspiration and who built their character).


YouTube kids doesn't appear to have any ads, so might be worth checking out.




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