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It's not. Kids overhear what parents watch, their ears are like little recorders. Meanwhile, kids videos near-universally end with either a like&subscribe admonition, or some crap like "ask parents to download our tablet app". Even the quality videos, they all do that.

Even if you don't show children videos, but want to play some music, YouTube is still the least-hassle, least-bullshit music stream player (arguably still it's main use for adults, too). Ain't anyone got time to deal with Spotify's ever more broken app. And this is the limit of technical skill of almost all parents. They can't exactly run SponsorBlock in YouTube's mobile app (and paid YouTube doesn't help here either, surprise surprise).

Not making excuses (though I'm not really blaming parents for this) - just saying how things actually are.




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