YouTube, kids, and COPPA With Google Family Link, parents have the ability and right to set their own rules. And that includes setting your own YouTube restrictions or permissions. And it applies to children under 16 and minors below the age of 13. The latter again have special restrictions, as they are protected and regulated by the Children Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA requires Google, and therefore YouTube, to restrict or disable certain features for children under the age of 13 and to label content for children. For example, comments under Children's Content will be turned off or advertisements will no longer be personalized, and suggestions and subscriber options will be limited. One of the main reasons for this is to ensure that no data is collected from children, which is prohibited in many countries and in the USA by these very COPPA regulations. In addition, there is also a desire to restrict access to children, which should prevent extremely critical contact between children and pedophiles. Much more information about COPPA and these restrictions, which have been in place since January 2020, can be found in this article on the 2020 changes by COPPA. Much more detailed information about this topic can be found in the Google Family Link Google Help pages.