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I don’t know what it is you want to distribute, but if it is newsworthy or political in nature, I think most media outlets (like “legit” ones like WaPo, NYT, etc.) have ways of contacting them through Tor for situations where the person with the information might have legitimate fears for their safety (e.g. whistleblowers).

But that’s really only for a certain type of “post.”

What kind of work do you think these kids are doing? Like are you picturing a 12 year old getting a leg-up on their adult “competition” because they started their career as a literal child?

Let children be children.

At least in the US, we don’t need child labor. We can get by just fine without it. So there is no reason.

Oh yeah, no way that would ever get abused or exploited 🙄.

Other than that, children will consensually work if the alternative is seeing their little sister starve

I’m not sure I would call that “consent.” It’s coercion.

Then tell it you don’t like those channels and thumbs down the short stuff you don’t want, and thumbs up the long stuff you do.

Remove the “shorts” section entirely (I know you can with vanced, forget about vanilla) if those are the 30 sec videos you mean. I hate them and ignore them entirely. Simple.

It’s really not hard to get YouTube to be a pretty damn good recommendation engine. You just have to give it some constraints.

Do you actually tell it what you do and don’t like? If it keeps recommending a channel you don’t like, click the “no more from this channel,” or “don’t recommend things like this” or whatever those options are.

If you do that, as well as thumbs up/down, you get good recommendations. Really not very hard.