SafeTube! Share YouTube and Vimeo videos inside a dedicated link + video player that removes ads and recommender videos. Great for families and classrooms. Students and children. A FREE tool by Astrosafe.
Congratulations, SafeTube team on your launch! The concept is brilliant and much-needed, especially in an era where ads and recommendations can be distracting and sometimes inappropriate for certain audiences. This tool will greatly enhance the educational experience by maintaining focus. One suggestion, I wonder if you could incorporate some form of parental control or a teacher mode, allowing appropriate content selection. Keep up the good work!
@manmohit that's a fantastic idea. For that sort of feature we have www.astrosafe.co which is a browser for teachers and parents in which SAFeTube works
Kudos to the Astrosafe team for creating SafeTube! It's been a long time since I was a teacher (and student!) but back then would have been really exited by a distraction-free, ad-free video experience for kids & teachers. Well done on addressing a real need in a cluttered digital space! 👍
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I'm not an educator, but I am a parent. After checking out SafeTube, I can definitely appreciate the need for a tool like this and I applaud you for developing it. YouTube is a practically essential medium for information sharing, but as it's designed to distract and engross its viewers, using it in a safe and controlled way has always been extremely difficult. You've addressed this problem admirably.
My one problem with it is that the video's CC and settings buttons are disabled. This tool would be much more useful if these options (especially captions) could remain accessible.
@troyahudson Hi Troy, Thanks for the kind words great spot on this.
We actually had a version working with the settings buttons days before this launch and then videos embedding was changed on YouTube's side to prevent the YouTube button being removed in the bottom right. We made a decision to make sure it couldn't be clicked for launch and we're hoping to get this addressed super soon.
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