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Tbh YouTube is even worse.
I want my kid to watch YouTube in moderation, there are good content creators in there.
BUT there is no way for me to block their access to the brain rot shithole that is YouTube Shorts. None, zero, nada. No parental controls work.
With TikTok I can just block it completely with parental controls, no problems.
3rd party YouTube clients such as NewPipe, LibreTube and Freetube offer such options, if available on your device.
I want them to offer it on my kids devices, without giving them the ability to re-enable shorts.
I’m pretty sure they can’t do that, especially not on iOS and even less on desktop computers where they can just browse to the website
Yattee is an app on iOS that might work, though I haven't tried it. Also on iOS, one of the Invidious website instances (3rd party YouTube front end) in Safari or installed as a PWA. On pc, using an Invidious site with the YouTube domain filtered out through your router or Pi-hole, could also work.