• Safe Mode is YouTube's Parental Control Switch

    Safe Mode is YouTube's Parental Control Switch

    Techtree News Staff, Feb 11, 2010 1222 hrs IST

    Filters out obscene and violent content

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Popular video sharing site YouTube has introduced a new parental control like feature to its service. Dubbed as Safe Mode, this new feature is an opt-in setting that aids users to screen obscene content. All the obscene, graphically violent, or suggestive videos that don't meet Community Guidelines can be filtered out. Again, Google makes a point to note that Safe Mode isn't a fool proof measure - means you can't have 100 percent guarantee that the kids or any other family member won't stumble over objectionable content.

YouTube now gets the Safe Mode which is also available while searching Google Images. It filters out the obscene content once the user logs in using YouTube or Google account and turns the Safe Mode to On. The new Safe Mode can act as Parental Control remote at home and will turn YouTube to Safe-For-Work mode instead of getting one embarrassed.

The Safe Mode is located at the bottom of the page and is being rolled out to users now.

Watch this Safe Mode demo from YouTube:


 

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SatGuide GPS
,Hyderabad, on Feb 17, 2010 04:04 PM
YouTube has introduced a new filtering feature to its service called the Safe Mode, an opt-in setting that aids users to screen obscene, grapically violent or suggestive content, like as in Google images.
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javakcl
,Denver, on Feb 14, 2010 08:29 AM
This has to be the most lame version of parental control I've ever seen. Basically, it's useless unless YouTube requires the user to log in. Even if you set it outside of a login, if the cookies and private data are cleared (easily done with browsers like Firefox), there's no filtering of words or search results
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Lalay khan
,Houston, on Feb 11, 2010 06:11 PM
I want to get you tube
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