YouTube Can Be Inappropriate For KidsĪccording to studies conducted at Pew Research Center, "YouTube has emerged as a key platform for both younger and older kids. And according to Jeff Nalin, a psychologist and co-founder of the Paradigm treatment center for teens, compulsive internet use and depression go hand-in-hand for more and more of today’s kids & teens. 31% of kids who shared a news story online later discovered it was inaccurate.Ī never-ending stream of content combined with peer pressure and FOMO push kids into a vicious cycle of compulsive internet use.
YouTube Kids is an entirely free app designed for young viewers. In addition to the above three options, you may also want to try the following for blocking videos from your YouTube experience. Reporting it should stop this video from being shown to you and will also let YouTube know they should investigate it and potentially remove it from the platform entirely. If you find a YouTube video is offensive, dangerous, or misleading, you can choose this option on the desktop version to let YouTube know. This option can be helpful if you like to get news on a specific topic from many sources and want to exclude particular accounts. Selecting this option will inform YouTube to cease showing you videos of any topic from this particular YouTube channel.
If you choose this on a video about tomatoes, YouTube will show you fewer videos about tomatoes regardless of the channel. This option will tell YouTube to stop recommending this video and others like it.
Here are the three you may want to consider using to block this video, and others like it, from your YouTube experience. If you’re tired of seeing the same account’s videos suggested to you in your feed while browsing YouTube, you can take several practical actions by tapping on the ellipsis next to its title on both mobile and the web.Ī menu will appear with a variety of options.