Youtube Kid "recommendations" have nothing to do with what my kids watch

by GoodmanSimon

I have Youtube Kids as one of my channels on my home screen, and it has about 5 or 6 "recommendations", none of those have anything to do with my kids, not even remotely close.

Those recommendations have not changed in the last couple of days since I have been paying attention to it.

When my kids actually go into Youtube Kids, (and select either one of their profiles), the recommendations are fairly close to what they would watch.

Is anybody familiar with that issue? Any way of getting the channel view to display good/correct recommendations?

vexorian2

By law, youtube are not allowed to track any data from children. Supposedly this is the reason they can't even remember what videos they watch, since they don't know what videos they watch, they can't recommend videos based on their watch history, I dunno if this means they give the same recommendations to all kids, or if they use some regional data to guess what to recommend.

abdhjops

Last year my wife and i noticed that YouTube kids was filled with paw patrol porn so i uninstalled it. We stick to Netflix and Disney+.

Even Netflix kids has a lot of anime that's not appropriate for kids. I wish there was a way to remove those.

doctorhalo

Go to settings, app, YouTube Kids, notifications, set to OFF.