Safety Mode: Giving You More Control on YouTube
Diversity of content is one of the great things about YouTube. But we know that some of you want a more controlled experience. That's why we're announcing Safety Mode, an opt-in setting that helps screen out potentially objectionable content that you may prefer not to see or don't want others in your family to stumble across while enjoying YouTube. An example of this type of content might be a newsworthy video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest or war coverage. While no filter is 100% perfect, Safety Mode is another step in our ongoing desire to give you greater control over the content you see on the site.
It's easy to opt in to Safety Mode: Just click on the link at the bottom of any video page. You can even lock your choice on that browser with your YouTube password. To learn more, check out the video below.
And remember, ALL content must still comply with our Community Guidelines. Safety Mode isn't fool proof, but it provides a greater degree of control over your YouTube experience. Safety Mode is rolling out to all users through out the day; watch for the new link at the bottom of any YouTube page.
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I really can't help but feel like I had a direct hand in bringing about this latest "update".
Either way - thanks for the help YouTube.
Haha, yeah.
Great idea! I'm glad it has been implemented.
Sounds like a good feature. I probably won't be using it since I'm only 16 and don't have any kids, but it seems like a way to temporarily turn it off would be helpful. For example, lets say my friend sends me a funny video ridden with profanity, and lets say I have safety mode turned on. Perhaps I could enter my password and watch the video without turning off safety mode? I know this is the system many cable and satellite providers use; they require their users to imput a parental code if they set up parental controls and want to watch a rated R movie.
Yeah, that may work as a quick way to turn it off.
The safety feature is good, however, really needs to be expanded to deal with a wider audience. For instance, establishments dealing with children (education, youth clubs etc...) will need to be able to enable this on mass.
This is usually achieved via the use of query strings (like a Google Search).
It should be possible to enable this via query string and not just account settings.
wow good
I don't have the Safety Mode link at the bottom of any of my pages. Why not? I want to turn it on ASAP. There is nothing at the bottom of any of the pages I see except for the current location and current language links - nothing else.
I don't have safety mode at the bottom either! What's Up?
I don't have a safety mode link either...
Maybe it's just me, but I am a little bit frightened by the phrase "video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest". Any idea why a political protest must be graphic and violent? I would not think so...
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It's a good idea for parents with younger kids, however you should also give video uploaders an option on if videos should be allow to be watched in safety mode or not.
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Is this option available with all browsers? or just select ones?
I saw the piece on the Early Show just a few minutes ago, but there is no option for the Safety Mode link at the bottom of any of my pages, either. (I am using Mozilla FireFox)Any ideas out there?
Given that you have created this "opt in" safety mode, is there any chance that you can also change the YouTube feature that hides comments to videos that are rated under -5 so that feature is an "opt in" feature as well? I don't mind when YouTube gives people an option to avoid seeing things they don't want to see, but it would be more in line with YouTube's promotion of free speech to always make those "opt in" options.
Thanks for all you do to try to make YouTube better :-)
yaa help full in some cases to stop people watching from particular video which is not sufficient to our family members.
I don't have a safety mode link either
Hmm...maybe the feature hasn't been applied to all accounts yet. I don't have it yet.
I don't have the Safety Mode link at the bottom of any of my pages. Why not? I want to turn it on ASAP. There is nothing at the bottom of any of the pages I see except for the current location and current language links - nothing else.
Does anyone know how to get in touch with youtube to ask a simple question? There's not an email to be found on the site.
Great Idea, I did not allow my kids on YouTube at all because of concern of bad junk that YouTube is full of. Now I will feel safer. Thank you for implementing. But please, do not classify political demonstrations as violent.
Nice job on screwing this up already. Might have been good to check to make sure that it was rolled out everywhere before announcing it worldwide and to broadcast media. Now there are a bunch of people looking for a button that doesn't exist yet.
I don't have the button either..does anyone know how to access it?
Oh, kids shouldn't see war crimes and political protests, but it's alright to laugh at victims who get mocked because they hurt themselves? You're teaching kids the wrong morals, besides that they shouldn't be using the internet anyway.
Youtube, why do you never follow your own community guidelines?
Well, as long as this means a YouTube with virtually all commercial music videos and the vast majority of the big time partners' videos eliminated, I'm all for it. Why do I feel that's not going to happen?
That said, I agree that this site features very little content that would appeal to an adult audience[*], so better turn it into a dedicated website for children now and be done with it.
[*] It's a common misconception that 'adult' means 'horny.' Actually, and for the purposes of the paragraph above, I would like it to be understood as 'in possession of one's own thoughts.'
Also have a YouTube for children only, so they can watch safe and educational videos there.
Good job, YouTube, announcing this before it was rolled out to everyone...
This feature is completely useless. Anyone, even kids, can find their way around this in less than 2 minutes. Parents, try monitoring and supervising your kids instead. Much more useful and you never know, you may actually find you enjoy spending some time with them.
Before all the trolls start, yes, I am a parent. I also practice what I preach. Try it sometime. It is not Google's or YouTube's responsibility to keep your kids from seeing things you don't want them to, it's yours.
I just can't think of any countries that would want or abuse this feature.
And God forbid kids see footage of a political protest!
You're going to censor poltical protest and riots? Good, god forbid kids actually know what's going on in the world. Let's keep them stupid and ignorant for ever! Why should they need to know that millions are dying of hunger? It does not concern American children that African children are dying.
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A step in the right direction, but...what would be really useful for schools is a safe URL such as www.safeyoutube.com where Safety Mode was turned on all the time, without the option to turn it off. Then we could add this to our whitelist whilst blocking normal YouTube.
I want great control over what is said as comment in my videos. it's one thing to opt out, but the comments are still there, so I have to remove the ability to comment and hurt everyone because the kiddies figure they can say and do as they please and not get in trouble.
This is a excellent addition to the site! It will allow people to control what others on their computer sees on Youtube. Or a way to filter out content they don't want to see themselves.
I think another thing that that would be cool to implement into the site is the option to make your videos 18+ only accessible if you wanted to. Granted I don't have any videos that are 18+ material myself. But, I know others do and would allow them to sort of "flag" their own videos for being "inappropriate" for teens before teens have the chance to see them themselves before flaggings go through.
That would mean the video maker would be responsible for who views their own videos. Not the viewers who flag them. Just my thoughts.
Thank you very much. No offense but i've been noticing more and more than ther are ALOT of dirty and lustful videos on the servers and it's really starting to drive me away from here and more towards Vimeo perhaps. Once again, im not trying to be rude but I must follow Almighty God's Holy Ten Commandments. So thanks once again for this great effort. I do hope this resolves or at least cuts down alot of whats on here right now. Thank you and may God Bless you all and all of your friends and families.
Please pray for Haiti and all nations in the world. Thanks.
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Finally - this has been needed for a while now. As a parent of 2 young kids, this really helps.
But can you give more detail about the categories you are blocking in safety mode and how you are assigning that to each video? Is that done by people or by some automated method? Thanks.
I just turned on safety mode but was able to view a video that showed violence. Sounds like you guys have the right idea but haven't yet thought this through. Web filtering companies have dealt with this for years (with parental control features blocking categories of websites/webpages). You might want to consider talking to them about how to do this a bit better.
The REAL question here is why does the video in this blog show the old youtube layout, but there's no option to switch BACK to it?
please make it able for Firefox.
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It looks like political censorship.
I think it's a great idea. However if you allow your kids to watch Youtube video's create a "Kid Zui" account for them. It's basically the internet for kids. So instead of them clicking on IE or the Firefox icon, click on the "K" icon for Kid Zui. My 6 year old son has his own computer and loves it! The parents get weekly emails on what they view and do with the free version of it.
Good idea, but the "lock" feature sucks. Why force censorship upon people who don't know how to clear cookies?
@Serena: you gotta love the warm feeling of privacy...
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