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A normal company would have implemented YouTube Kids as a white-listed video area, but YouTube / Google went with an algorithm. It was irresponsible and worse, predictable that child predators would use this to get to the children. Pay a damn human to watch the video and either white-list it or maybe ban it. Computers are not that good and volume is not an excuse.

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I agree with you. Google has really let parents down.

I downloaded YT for Kids app during its initial release days. It started out fairly well with popular and known TV show episodes. I did not think that Google would let its algorithm rule the wild west of the Internet world.

I sat down to look at the app after this controversy and was aghast to discover what exactly Google has done here. I kept on hitting the "block" on the episodes and channels it was throwing at my kid, and it would continuously show the next bad one. After going through this routine for 20 plus minutes, I gave up and deleted the damn app.

It is really ridiculous how Google has handled this product. Never again!

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