YouTube Adds Parental Controls With Safety Mode

Popular video sharing site, YouTube, recently announced that it has finally added parental controls with its Safety Mode. The move is a clear indication of the service’s desire to placate the growing number of parents concerned about what their children view on the site. To access it, users will need to scroll down to the bottom of any YouTube page and look for the link at the bottom left corner of the page.

Not really hard to find but not instantly viewable either. Users can click on the link to activate the feature, or they can log into their YouTube account before turning on Safety Mode so the feature becomes the default setting for their account. Any search done once the feature is activated will filter results with violent or adult content.

How effective this will be depends on the parents and the age of the children browsing YouTube. Still, it’s a step in the right direction and some praise should be given to the site although they could make the link more visible by putting it on the top of each page.

Here’s a video of how YouTube’s Safety Mode works: