[AnonymousPlanet]

I'm curious, could you be more specific as to what exactly you mean by "schlock"? The ads? Product recommendations? Political content? Opinions?

For something that has a massive amount of videos added to it every minute, it's a surprisingly sanitised place.

They could introduce a kids friendly subdomain that would make it easier to filter at a proxy level. But then parents all over the world will be pulling their hair out about what is deemed to be kids friendly. The staunchly atheist might balk at content that is open towards Religion, the religious extremists will balk at content that is open to things like homosexuality, and the dietary extremists will complain about endorsements of the wrong choice of food. Humans like to make up lists of purity rules. But those lists rarely match.

So I'm curious, what does your list look like?

[trenchpilgrim]

I'm guessing they left right around the time of Elsagate. Youtube Kids (a separate "kid friendly" version of YouTube) was almost entirely bizarre permutations of software-assembled videos. I hear it still is, but most of my friends banned unsupervised youtube for their young kids around this time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

[arccy]

kids friendly subdomain: https://www.youtubekids.com/

[angoragoats]

This is neither a subdomain nor even a website for watching videos, so I don’t think it’s what the grandparent had in mind.