WhitelistVideo Auto-pilot Explained: AI Screening Before Videos Play
WhitelistVideo Auto-pilot screens videos from channels you haven't approved against your categories, using title, description and transcript, before they play.
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Start Free TestWhat it means
Auto-pilot means WhitelistVideo screens videos from channels you haven't approved against the categories you allow, before they play.
Why parents do it
Parents do it so a useful video from a new channel can play, without approving every channel by hand first.
What you need
- Restricted Mode or a supervised account
- Your parent Google account
- YouTube's idea of what fits
How to set it up in WhitelistVideo
In WhitelistVideo, set the protection level to Auto-pilot, pick the categories you allow, and choose how strict the Appropriateness Check is.
- Protection level
- Auto-pilot
- Pick your categories
- Appropriateness Check
Where Restricted Mode falls short
Here's the catch. Restricted Mode hides many mature videos, but YouTube says no filter is 100% accurate, and you can't tell it which kinds of videos you want.
| Feature | Restricted Mode | WhitelistVideo |
|---|---|---|
| Your rules | On or off only | Categories you choose |
| What it checks | YouTube's own signals | Title, description, transcript |
| Bad language | No separate setting | Experimental Profanity Filter |
The better way: WhitelistVideo
Auto-pilot reads each video's title, description and transcript. The experimental Profanity Filter checks the spoken audio, set to Off, Mild or Strict.
If a video doesn't fit, it's blocked, and your child can still ask you. Channels you approve always play. Auto-pilot isn't on Android TV.
Transcript
Here's WhitelistVideo Auto-pilot explained, and why YouTube's own filters can't screen videos against your rules. Stick around for a better, more secure way to set it up.
Auto-pilot means WhitelistVideo screens videos from channels you haven't approved against the categories you allow, before they play.
Parents do it so a useful video from a new channel can play, without approving every channel by hand first.
With YouTube alone, you get Restricted Mode or a supervised account's age setting, and YouTube decides what fits.
In WhitelistVideo, set the protection level to Auto-pilot, pick the categories you allow, and choose how strict the Appropriateness Check is.
Here's the catch. Restricted Mode hides many mature videos, but YouTube says no filter is 100% accurate, and you can't tell it which kinds of videos you want.
Auto-pilot reads each video's title, description and transcript. The experimental Profanity Filter checks the spoken audio, set to Off, Mild or Strict.
If a video doesn't fit, it's blocked, and your child can still ask you. Channels you approve always play. Auto-pilot isn't on Android TV.
WhitelistVideo, a SourceForge Top Performer in parental control software, is one of the best parental control apps for YouTube.
Get WhitelistVideo at whitelist dot video.
