Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play

https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-wants-to-see-your-papers-before-you-press-play

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intothemild•2h ago

As a parent I really like googles family controls, all of it. Except ONE thing.. I cannot block or limit YouTube Shorts.

Whenever my daughter watches regular YouTube there's a good chance she might watch something creative or educational or something that ends up with her suddenly making something out of paper, or drawing or anything physical. Learning about something amazing and getting excited.

YouTube Shorts is just AI slop, and horrible content I wish never existed.

d0100•2h ago

> YouTube Shorts is just AI slop, and horrible content I wish never existed.

This is only what you watch, for me I get short form of the same content I watch on youtube video (music, games and podcasts)

intothemild•1h ago

I'm talking about my kid here. I think you're missing the point of what I'm talking about here. YouTube is ok for the most part, where as shorts is mostly not ok, and there's no way to turn it off.

apwell23•1m ago

kid reels might be AI slop

OneDeuxTriSeiGo•1h ago

In general there needs to be a way to disable Youtube Shorts. It's a massive attention hole that preys on people in a very addiction forming way. Doubly so for people with ADHD, etc.

j1elo•1h ago

You could access via web browser and try this uBlock Origin list [1], props to this commenter [2] who helpfully posted it a while ago. Or if you must use a native app, on Android use a patched version of YT that supresses shorts from the view (to be honest the user agency it still allows, is for me worth enough to prefer Android over its competition)

[1]: https://github.com/Harren06/ublock-yt-shorts

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848253

phyzix5761•26m ago

I use brave browser and block anything related to shorts. The sound still plays in the background but the videos don't play which makes it unenjoyable. Helped me give up shorts.

robertwt7•1h ago

I am Australian, the state that we have become is just sad. The fact that this is brought under the disguise of "child protection" is ridiculous and I never would have imagine a future in my own country where I have to submit my ID to access anything online. They will never achieve anything with this because everyone will just use VPN. It's costing taxpayer's money without any useful outcome. The level of incompetence displayed by this government is astonishing.

RachelF•20m ago

Australia is slowly copying China. They will move on banning VPNs in a year of two.

It may be government incompetence, but it might also be a plan to identify everyone online.