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I just blocked YouTube on all devices in the house (txt.black)
5 points by zulgan 2244 days ago
4 comments
touchpadder 2244 days ago
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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zulgan 2244 days ago
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.

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glennvtx 2244 days ago
HOW. Youtube is a multi-tentacled beastie. What did you do to effectively block it?
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zulgan 2244 days ago
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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kindly_fo 2243 days ago
I have configured ublock extension to block everything except player I would like to block YouTube altogether but there are some articles that point to YouTube, movie trailers, etc.
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kindly_fo 2243 days ago
One more thing about youtube. If someone forget how retarded are people just say him to open YouTube trends/top page.
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