Ways to protect children from 'malicious' Youtube videos

With a huge number of videos on YouTube, every family needs to pay attention to each content because they may contain unhealthy content, affecting children.

Youtube is currently the leading search and sharing site in the world with the number of "terrible" videos, diverse and rich content. However, this also causes significant effects, especially for young children because videos with violent and unhealthy content will not be lacking on YouTube. Therefore, it is advisable for each family to actively protect their children from inappropriate videos on YouTube.

Every family should know the habit of watching videos on Youtue, keywords that they often search for. In order to prevent these "malicious" videos from potentially attacking children, as well as finding the right age-appropriate videos for each child. In the article below, Network Administrator will summarize ways to help you prevent YouTube videos with unhealthy content "attacking" your children.

1. Turn on video restriction mode on Youtube:

Enabling YouTube video restriction mode will help videos with violent and offensive content have no chance of appearing on your YouTube home. By default, restrictions on Youtube will be turned off and users need to activate them. However, keep in mind that users need to enable YouTube video restriction mode on different browsers, different devices and the same YouTube account that kids watch videos.

To turn on restrictive mode on web-based YouTube, we click on Restrict Mode button and then select Enable .

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With the YouTube app on the smartphone, we access the Settings section then navigate to Restricted Mode and activate them. Readers can refer to how to do details in the article How to enable limited video mode on Youtube.

2. Check YouTube video history:

When users log into their YouTube account and search for videos, the videos that appear later will be based on the search results and history. And we can rely on it to know what your kids have seen on YouTube.

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At the interface of Youtube, we just need to click on the History section to check the video viewing history as well as the search keyword history on Youtube. If there are any signs of unhealthy videos, you need to delete them from Youtube. Check out how to do it in the article How to check YouTube video search history.

3. Report objectionable video content on Youtube:

In addition to censoring YouTube content, support from viewers when reporting malicious videos is also necessary.

When seeing videos at risk of affecting children, or any videos with unhealthy content, viewers should flag the report, be able to report videos, report pages or report to video infringement. right. With such practical and useful actions, users will limit somewhat videos with inappropriate content overflowing on YouTube.

Readers can see more articles How to report YouTube videos with inappropriate content.

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4. Install YoutubeKids application:

Download the iOS Kids iOS app
Download the Youtube Kids Android app

If you still don't feel safe when we use the YouTube app, YouTube Kids can be installed with programs for children only.

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There will be 4 sections of videos, shows, music, discoveries and learning. Each section will have videos appropriate for each child's age. We can rely on their age to find the right videos. In addition, the timer setting feature, set the time for children to watch videos only in certain time, will limit the fact that children are too into watching videos, affecting their health and learning. .

How to use the Youtube Kids reader application can be found in detail in the article How to use Youtube Kids to protect children from malicious videos.

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These are some ways to help each family protect their children from unhealthy videos on YouTube. It is best to limit dangerous videos to young children to the highest level, we should combine all four ways.