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by jvvw 13 days ago
As a parent of teenagers, I feel like the sites make it hard for parents.

When they were young, you had a choice between YouTube being completely locked down with no option to whitelist channels or letting them watch almost anything (although I think this has changed since but it's too late now for those of us with children that age).

Now, there is no way I can whitelist contact/groups on WhatsApp or Discord servers/friends. Once they hit 13, pretty much any option to restrict anything feels taken away from you as a parent.

Luckily, I have sensible children (I think!) but it's really hard as a parent trying to both be reasonably responsible, but not deny all technology, it's really hard to navigate a sensible course.

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You gotta understand, the owners of these sites don't care about you, your kids or a good user experience. They care about serving ads, tracking your behavior and selling that behavior data to the highest bidder. If they get to your this behavior to your government ID, it will probably make it more valuable.

There's also a lot of room between YouTube (or even social media) and all technology...

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