[azca]

Proactively this is the only thing that worked: get yt premium, download YouTube videos you preselected, and disconnect the child's device.

[thaumasiotes]

What does getting YouTube Premium add to that plan? Wouldn't it work just as well without that step?

[marcusjt]

You need YouTube Premium to be able to download videos to watch offline (plus see no ads)

[firstcommentyo]

Newpipe can also download. No need for bloated YouTube-App, Premium subscription or ti hassle with a command line tool (in case CLI's are not your thing).

As also mentioned by others, youtube-dl seems kinda dead. However there is a good fork/successor called "yt-dlp" which, in addition to other nice improvements, also somehow manages to work around the enforced heavy bandwidth limit by YT.

[CraneWorm]

WTH, you don't, just use youtube-dl

[registeredcorn]

I strongly recommend checking out yt-dlp. Forked from youtube-dl but has much quicker downloads.

[toqy]

Never heard of it. Does that work on a child’s iPad and expose videos via an interface that they can navigate?

[CraneWorm]

It's just a command-line tool to download audio/video from youtube (and many other sites). You'd need to setup the iPad thing yourself, maybe using something like Plex?

[branon]

Consider Jellyfin instead of Plex (doesn't Plex try to push "free" content in addition to what you add to the server?)

[selfhoster11]

All you need is Vanced or NewPipe.

[kragen]

Or youtube-dl. Though I've been getting bandwidth-limited lately...

[c0balt]

There is a fork, yt-dlp[0], that I've enjoyed using recently that has some mitigations for this issue[1] (see --throttling-rate)t

[0]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

[1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/985

[xigoi]

…or you can just use NewPipe.

[thaumasiotes]

No part of what you just said is true.

[rryan]

* YouTube Kids with allowlist.

* App Timer of zero minutes on YouTube app.

[brady747]

In your comment, is allowlist a list of videos only they can watch? (not a list of 'age ranges' or 'channels', but actually being able to select individual videos). I was never able to get something like this out of youtube kids when I've tried it in the past.

All these services curate for kids and I want to choose what my kids watch, so they are all failing me. (I'm with the others who go with YT premium, youtube-dl, kids watch with vlc or something on a tablet).