someone should fork one of those youtube clients that lets you download videos. parent can scrape the channels/playlists/videos they approve of. have a function where the phone can go into a some sort of locked-down offline kiosk mode and only those videos will be available visible/available but functionality otherwise works same as youtube with suggestions, autoplay etc.
probably still some edgecase ways to get around these that a dedicated kid could find but you can also ban videos containing specified terms and enable “Show family-friendly only” to limit what can get through even then.
someone should fork one of those youtube clients that lets you download videos. parent can scrape the channels/playlists/videos they approve of. have a function where the phone can go into a some sort of locked-down offline kiosk mode and only those videos will be available visible/available but functionality otherwise works same as youtube with suggestions, autoplay etc.
suddenly parents all love pirates
you can do this on desktop with freetube
The settings you wold need to use are:
probably still some edgecase ways to get around these that a dedicated kid could find but you can also ban videos containing specified terms and enable “Show family-friendly only” to limit what can get through even then.
Can you lock the UI and turn off the internet though?
I think all the pieces exist.
Need to package it up in a way that is pre set for this use case. Not wait for parents of toddlers to find open source projects on their own.
sorry should have specified this doesn’t pre-download videos it’s just a highly customizable and featured youtube frontend.
youtube kids allows this functionality, including only allowing downloaded videos