Videos that will be filtered in the new Safety Mode include:

• Videos with a sexual theme meant for mature viewers
• News videos featuring violence

Turning on Safety Mode

There’s a link to turn on Safety Mode at the bottom of every YouTube page.

You can lock Safety Mode on by logging in, and then turning Safety Mode on (which, again, is at the bottom of every page).

The setting is browser-specific, and also profile-specific. So if you (or other users) use multiple browsers, you have to set Safety Mode to “on” in every browser. It doesn’t matter if the person using the browser is logged in or not; Safety Mode will stay on until you log in with your password and turn it off.

Using Safety Mode

If you have Safety Mode on,

• Search results won’t feature objectionable content, though the fact that results were filtered will be noted.
• Comments aren’t shown by default.
• If you show comments, objectionable words are replaced with asterisks.
• You won’t be able to see filtered videos a friend sends you until Safety Mode is turned off.

My comments

Google’s recently been increasing the amount of advertising on YouTube. It looks like Google is creating a safe for work atmosphere which is also a safe for advertising environment.

Resources

Google announcement of Safety Mode
Google Help on YouTube Safety Mode
http://digital.venturebeat.com/
http://financegeek.com/
http://techcrunch.com/
http://googland.blogspot.com/

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