How to Block YouTube at Home

Question

It is a spring break, and I realize that kids spend more than healthy amount of time on Youtube. I have tried various solutions, tether from tplink, host based block, but I would prefer a DNS block. I have run pihole too, but wanted to see if there is any other way to block youtube (and all it's subtle domains) inside a home network?

pestatije · Accepted Answer

theres a cable between the wall and the router...using this solution will also prevent the grown-ups to "spend more than healthy amount of time" on front of the screen

donkeysquid · Answer

https://one.one.one.one/family/ Cloudflare has a dns option for families that might allow you to add black/white lists - I can't find the documentation for that feature but you might have more success than I have had. It said they would add that feature in the initial announcement

runjake · Answer

NextDNS can do that and it's cheap. See another thread from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895644#39896154

Its_Padar · Answer

I believe if you own a network, it's possible to lock YouTube to an age range which means however that works, it can probably be used to block it.

ensocode · Answer

https://pi-hole.net/

ijijijjij · Answer

just block all of Google's IP blocks (most of the internet wont work properly, but thats ok)
Go to https://whois.arin.net/ui/advanced.jsp and Search for “Google LLC”, by Organization… Click each organization found and then select “Related Networks”.
Then block all that shit.
If you just want to block youtube, just do it at router/domain name level? just dont forget any of their domain names...