" I have the same issue with my daughter and she stays up half the night on YouTube."
Well, that's your problem. Your problem isn't youtube, it's your daughter staying up late! ( xyproblem.info ) Use a router with access controls and disable access for her MAC addresses after bed time. That way your internet works fine, you don't have to do things that she can work her way around. Your router just doesn't let her machines connect to the internet during that time. DD-WRT has support for this built in: https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Parental_control Is that more of what you're looking for? On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:46 PM Z00100 <z00...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So my question to you is why not? > > > > I have the same issue with my daughter and she stays up half the night on > YouTube. We can’t take the phone per se because she uses it as an alarm > clock etc and the only safe place to ensure she doesn’t take it at night is > in our bedroom. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 18, 2020 at 9:44 AM, <Christopher Fisk (mailto: > christopher.f...@thefisks.org)> wrote: > > > > > > > > Can I ask WHY you're looking to do this? Is the kid just not following > the rules? Taking away the device they're using to circumvent the rules > seems like the right thing to do to me. This isn't a simple problem. > Removing just access to youtube for someone with computer skills and > determination to get it will be almost impossible without really tightening > down things. 1. Remove admin rights from the teenager's PC for their user > account 2. Remove the ability to boot from anything except the installed > HDD (to prevent creation of admin account through tools or running linux > from livecd) 1. Set a BIOS password after configuring the boot sequence 2. > Teen might be able to reset password, so seal the computer case so jumpers > can't be touched 3. Setup Chrome and all other browsers in locked down mode > using either kiosk mode for the browser, or GPO 1. the GPO should set a web > proxy server to a machine running squid or other proxy software so you can > block youtube there, as well as track what they're doing to circumvent the > block 4. Setup the PC so they can't run anything that isn't on the > whitelist of applications (so they don't download a standalone version of > firefox/chrome and get around your lockdowns) 1. (This is insanely time > consuming and will run into issues when you're trying to update the > computer) In a business environment you can do the majority of this and > centrally maintain things and it's a full time job. Doing it at home? That > seems insane. Non-admin rights, locked down profile, not being able to > install software and not being able to change the browser settings will get > the majority. On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 1:18 AM Bino Gopal < > binogo...@hotmail.com (mailto:binogo...@hotmail.com)> wrote: > So > what’s the simplest/most elegant way to block YouTube on a PC when > > you’ve got a resourceful teenager who can Google and attempt to circumvent > > any methods you use? > > Is it on the PC or on the network first > off? > > On the PC would UAC and an admin account and editing the hosts > file be > enough? Or fwd proxy software for all browsers preventing new > browser > install? > > Or just do it with filtering on the router > outbound? > > How complicated do you need to get exactly? > > > Thanks in advance! > > BINO > > > > > > > > > >
