[nine_k]

Use YouTube Premium, one may say!

The problem is that you likely don't want to log in the kid's device to your own Google account (with premium activated). If you want to create another account just for that, you need to lie about the age, and need to link a credit card to pay for the account — and for anything else on YouTube, then.

It would be great to have kid-specific accounts with parental control and access limitations; MS provides something similar.

[TeMPOraL]

Or, use youtube-dl and manually curate what your kids can watch, for a safe and ad-free experience. This is what my wife and I are going to do when our kid reaches the age we deem appropriate to expose it to children shows.

(I'm 100% serious, and at this point I wonder if there's business in selling a NAS preconfigured for streaming as a set-top box, with parents responsible for dropping URLs that youtube-dl will then download.)

[EKLM-ZK88]

I do this using a cron that rips videos off an unlisted youtube playlist and syncs them over to my plex server. Its great for having a group of videos to shuffle in the background while im at home.

[pmh]

It looks like a family plan (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7507349?hl=en) may solve most of that, but you still may have to lie about the age.

[Ajedi32]

That's exactly what YouTube Kids is for. https://www.youtube.com/kids/