- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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The worst part is that for most of these services, the child accounts are still functionally useless for parents.
We have a kid who actively seeks out content they know they’re not allowed to watch, which means unfortunately a Netflix subscription simply won’t work for us because Netflix doesn’t allow you to actually password protect your profiles. So our kid can just select the parent profile, or make a new one if they want to watch whatever they want.
As far as I know only Disney+ allows you to put a login pin on parent accounts to lock kids out. That would be useful, except the Roku we use to watch things on the tv doesn’t password protect all of its channels, so we still have to be on top of him to make sure he’s staying within disney+…
I gotta be honest, I kinda miss cable tv.
Frankly, if a child somehow makes it into my home, and is left unsupervised long enough to work out which of the 7 remote controls turns on the TV and surround sound system, and figures out how to access Netflix - I’d say they’re mature enough to watch whatever they want.
Gold.
Netflix does this so that (most of) the children’s content appears only in the children’s section. This means you don’t have to sift through 800 versions of cocomelon to find Singles Inferno. They’re literally acknowledging you don’t have children and helping you find the content you want, and simultaneously not preventing you from accessing it when your sisters little crotch goblins come over for a visit.
Most first-world-problem shit I’ve ever heard.
They have 2 good points though (even if I generally agree with you that this is a first world problem). The first is that this will likely show up for parents who have lost a child or potential parents having fertility issues and that does suck.
The second is that it’s just good UI to add a little box that says “never show this message again”. It wouldn’t take but the smallest iota of extra effort to do that. Annoying popups are honestly a first world problem. But they absolutely also show that these companies do not care, while these companies are trying to show they care.
No, that is not the reason for a child account that has age based restrictions. That is a reason for having multiple profiles so the recommendations and watch history are separated.
Being forced to have additional profiles you don’t need is terrible design.
But I want my own content bubble organized antithetical to my convenience and I want it now.
“Won’t someone think of the children?”
NO.
This is pretty minor on the scale of enshittification that it happening in pretty much every tech product, but stuff like this is just an example of features being added so someone at the company can point to “improving” the product (so they can point to it during raise or promotion time), because it is safer for kids ignoring that it degrades user experience for a large portion of the customer base.
Unfortunately we’ve lost our attitude that parents should actually parent and supervise their children. So instead they force everyone to deal with it.
I can’t imagine what it is like for bereaved parents who have recently lost a child. Or for those struggling with fertility issues.
Don’t dress up your petty annoyance at having to share a world with parents as saving the bereaved and barren.
Have you been to !childfree@lemmy.world?
i used to be on that when I was on reddit but I had to leave due to too many instances of me reading about people who actually wanted to harm or kill children.
so I’m a bit nervous. i would assume the lemmy instance is a more chill place, maybe? 😅
