Big Mother is watching.
YouTube has introduced an expanded set of tools to help concerned parents keep better track of their child’s online activity.
Mindful moms and dads will now be able to link accounts with their kid’s, allowing them to monitor everything from video uploads to subscriptions and comments.
“As your pre-teens grow, their interests can too,” reads new guidance from the social media site, released just in time for the new school year.
“YouTube’s new supervision option helps you have open conversations with your teens as they begin to create and share on YouTube for the first time,” the directive stated.
For younger teens, parents can now set filters that ensure they limit their viewing to age-appropriate content.
Young tots can also surf the newly introduced “YouTube Kids” separate app that promises “a safer and simpler experience.”
And, even for times a parent isn’t literally looking over shoulders, will still be able to regulate viewing habits.
For those aged 13-17, “take-a-break” notifications can be set hourly — along with bedtime reminders at 10 p.m.
Parents also have access to an autoplay kill switch, which keeps kids from getting sucked into an endless video loop.
Anyone 17 and under will also find it more difficult to access so-called “problematic” content — which includes videos “displaying social aggression and intimidation.”
The news comes as Nielsen reported that YouTube beat Disney out as a media distributor volume-wise in the month of July.
A famous YouTuber also recently announced his death posthumously through the platform.
