YouTube Shorts - No restricted mode

[DeGrimmy]

We use a combination of YouTube's restricted mode for everyone in school and a whitelist on Smoothwall for student access to YouTube. For the first time today, a member of staff has sent us a YouTube Short to approve to show students, and there were no controls to approve the video as you would for a regular YouTube video in restricted mode. Students are obviously blocked from accessing this much like they are for regular YouTube, but what are your thoughts on staff having unrestricted access to this?

[David44]

Aren't YouTube Shorts the same as normal videos with a different URL?

This is a short...

This is the same video...

 

If you take the video ID of a blocked video and construct a short URL, are you saying that it is no longer blocked?

[DeGrimmy]

Aren't YouTube Shorts the same as normal videos with a different URL?

This is a short...

This is the same video...

 

If you take the video ID of a blocked video and construct a short URL, are you saying that it is no longer blocked?

I see what you mean with the example you've provided, but I don't think all YouTube videos are also Shorts - I imagine the YouTube channel will have the option to make it viewable through Shorts as well. I've just tried converting a YouTube video URL to a Shorts URL - This just reverted the URL back to the regular "watch?v" URL.

 

What I mean is, it would appear that the Shorts tab is accessible to staff from the YouTube sidebar and doesn't appear to require approval like the regular videos do in restricted mode. I've not explored Shorts much, but I've seen reposts from TikTok, which is naturally not accessible in school. Perhaps I'm only seeing Shorts from channels that don't require approval, but I think there should visibly be the same level of control in Shorts as there is with regular YouTube videos.

[Koldov]

I've never really noticed 'Shorts' before on Youtube.

 

Is this what you mean?

 

 

We use restricted mode and 'approve' buttons for normal Youtube videos.

 

But, these don't appear and it doesn't seem we have any control over #shorts...

 

I can't seem to find much information about them though.

[DeGrimmy]

I've never really noticed 'Shorts' before on Youtube.

 

Is this what you mean?

 

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We use restricted mode and 'approve' buttons for normal Youtube videos.

 

But, these don't appear and it doesn't seem we have any control over #shorts...

 

I can't seem to find much information about them though.

 

This is it, yep!