<story><title>Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube</title><url>https://youtube.googleblog.com/2020/01/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vageli</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand the prevention of adding to a playlist. Now I can&amp;#x27;t make a custom playlist of children&amp;#x27;s content for my kid?</text></item><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Some of the features that get disabled for &amp;quot;children&amp;#x27;s content&amp;quot; are a bit surprising:&lt;p&gt;Playback in the Miniplayer&lt;p&gt;Save to playlist and Save to watch later&lt;p&gt;Likes and dislikes on YouTube Music&lt;p&gt;Donate buttons&lt;p&gt;I guess it&amp;#x27;s hard to do these in a way that is compliant with the privacy rules, or they&amp;#x27;re worried that kids will donate $1000 to their favorite Youtuber with Mom and Dad&amp;#x27;s credit card? It will be interesting to see how good their machine learning is at identifying &amp;quot;kid&amp;#x27;s content&amp;quot;. From reading the FTC page, the delineation seems a bit arbitrary. I suppose we&amp;#x27;ll see if there&amp;#x27;s a financial impact on Youtubers that are borderline (is someone playing a video game considered children&amp;#x27;s content? What if the videogame is rated M? Will the tiebreaker be statistics about their actual viewers?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Slartie</author><text>Maybe this is intended to prevent &amp;quot;YouTube babysitting&amp;quot; aka &amp;quot;make a long playlist, park kid in front of youtube, go and do something else&amp;quot;? Without the ability to schedule up hours of content, one is forced to look after the child regularly, even if it&amp;#x27;s just to start the next dull bit of entertainment.&lt;p&gt;Though if that was the motivation I&amp;#x27;d expect them to also disable auto-play of next video for content targeted at kids.</text></comment>
<story><title>Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube</title><url>https://youtube.googleblog.com/2020/01/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vageli</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand the prevention of adding to a playlist. Now I can&amp;#x27;t make a custom playlist of children&amp;#x27;s content for my kid?</text></item><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Some of the features that get disabled for &amp;quot;children&amp;#x27;s content&amp;quot; are a bit surprising:&lt;p&gt;Playback in the Miniplayer&lt;p&gt;Save to playlist and Save to watch later&lt;p&gt;Likes and dislikes on YouTube Music&lt;p&gt;Donate buttons&lt;p&gt;I guess it&amp;#x27;s hard to do these in a way that is compliant with the privacy rules, or they&amp;#x27;re worried that kids will donate $1000 to their favorite Youtuber with Mom and Dad&amp;#x27;s credit card? It will be interesting to see how good their machine learning is at identifying &amp;quot;kid&amp;#x27;s content&amp;quot;. From reading the FTC page, the delineation seems a bit arbitrary. I suppose we&amp;#x27;ll see if there&amp;#x27;s a financial impact on Youtubers that are borderline (is someone playing a video game considered children&amp;#x27;s content? What if the videogame is rated M? Will the tiebreaker be statistics about their actual viewers?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaimex2</author><text>I guess Youtube is covering itself from someone alleging custom playlists is a form of tracking.</text></comment>