ASCII.jp YouTube strengthens the protection measures for young people and keeps posts under the age of 18 in the initial settings

From the Japanese version of YouTube official blog

Google published an article entitled "New amendments to protect young users on YouTube and YouTube Kids and Digital Welbying on a new revision of young users of YouTube and YouTube Kids on September 6th."We announced protection measures for layers.

Update default privacy settings for young people

In the next few weeks, the default privacy settings applied to the 13-17 -year -old YouTube contributor will be gradually adjusted to be "private".In the setting of a private video, only the contributor and the user specified by the contributor can view the content.

In addition, we will support young users, such as displaying a reminder that indicates who can browse the video when publishing the content, and supports online records and digital privacy.

Enhancement of digital welbying function

Furthermore, to all users between the ages of 13 and 17, take off breaks and good night time notifications by default, and default automatically.It is also possible to change the default settings of these functions.

YouTube Kids also adds automatic playback options and turns off automatic playback in the app by default.In the next few months, we plan to add management functions for parents, such as a function that can fix the default automatic regeneration settings for parents.

Paid promotional videos safety protection measures

Changes to the handling method of commercial content for young and families.YouTube Kids does not allow paid promotion videos, but in the next few weeks, excessive commercial content, such as videos focusing only on product packages and videos that encourage children to purchase.Excludes will also start.

YouTube is a child's content or a YouTube management account, updating the disclosure message displayed when the creator declares that paid promotion is included in his videos.An animation videos for children (with Japanese subtitles settings) provide information on paid products that are easy for children to understand.

In addition, we propose the content that may be displayed on YouTube, such as the promotion of paid products, to provide support for parents to explain and understand young people with a guardian management function guide.There is.