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I just blocked YouTube on all devices in the house

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Re: I just blocked YouTube on all devices in the house

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Post by touchpadder »

There's more of mentioned issues in MSM. There's literally everything on YT so it's better to teach your children how to navigate instead of imposing a total ban where the kids will find a way to access it anyway. edit: their algos are now extremely biased towards msm news though so watching it is as stupid as watching television. The days where the internet was making us smarter are long gone.

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Post by zulgan »

touchpadder wrote: post #2

There's more of mentioned issues in MSM. There's literally everything on YT so it's better to teach your children how to navigate instead of imposing a total ban where the kids will find a way to access it anyway. edit: their algos are now extremely biased towards msm news though so watching it is as stupid as watching television. The days where the internet was making us smarter are long gone.

I spend considerable amount of time doing that, but the content creators are so extremely aggressive, they make new channels with new clickbaits with same garbage, just to get the children's clicks. and they are so many!

especially now during covid19 lockdown, the garbage produced is intense. and of course our screen time is higher than ever.

Re: I just blocked YouTube on all devices in the house

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Post by zulgan »

glennvtx wrote: post #4

HOW. Youtube is a multi-tentacled beastie. What did you do to effectively block it?

for now i just blocked it on the pi-hole, wildcard blocking:

  googlevideo.com
  ytimg.com
  youtube.com
  youtube-ui.l.google.com
  ytimg.l.google.com
  ytstatic.l.google.com
  googleapis.com
and it works fine
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