Frankly, if a child somehow makes it into my home, and is left unsupervised long enough to work out which of the 7 remote controls turns on the TV and surround sound system, and figures out how to access Netflix - I’d say they’re mature enough to watch whatever they want.
Gold.
Netflix does this so that (most of) the children’s content appears only in the children’s section. This means you don’t have to sift through 800 versions of cocomelon to find Singles Inferno. They’re literally acknowledging you don’t have children and helping you find the content you want, and simultaneously not preventing you from accessing it when your sisters little crotch goblins come over for a visit.
Most first-world-problem shit I’ve ever heard.
Most first-world-problem shit I’ve ever heard.
Yeah I shouldn’t criticize my paid service because there are bigger problems out there
They have 2 good points though (even if I generally agree with you that this is a first world problem). The first is that this will likely show up for parents who have lost a child or potential parents having fertility issues and that does suck.
The second is that it’s just good UI to add a little box that says “never show this message again”. It wouldn’t take but the smallest iota of extra effort to do that. Annoying popups are honestly a first world problem. But they absolutely also show that these companies do not care, while these companies are trying to show they care.
No, that is not the reason for a child account that has age based restrictions. That is a reason for having multiple profiles so the recommendations and watch history are separated.
Being forced to have additional profiles you don’t need is terrible design.
Don’t need yet, and that’s my whole point.
Netflix’s approach is: “we know you probably don’t want this shit, but if you ever do it’s behind this big button on page 1”.
That’s helping you avoid kids content, not hindering you.
This gives me the same vibes as the fucking New York Times annoying me with the popover prompt to use their app every day. The app to read websites on phones already exists, it’s called a browser, and I’m using it. Asking a hundred more times won’t change my mind.
I even opened a support case which only resulted in them “passing on the suggestion”.
“Won’t someone think of the children?”
NO.
The worst part is that for most of these services, the child accounts are still functionally useless for parents.
We have a kid who actively seeks out content they know they’re not allowed to watch, which means unfortunately a Netflix subscription simply won’t work for us because Netflix doesn’t allow you to actually password protect your profiles. So our kid can just select the parent profile, or make a new one if they want to watch whatever they want.
As far as I know only Disney+ (and HBO i’m told) allow you to put a login pin on parent accounts to lock kids out. That would be useful, except the Roku we use to watch things on the tv doesn’t password protect all of its channels, so we still have to be on top of him to make sure he’s staying within disney+…
I gotta be honest, I kinda miss cable tv.
