I have blocked youtube.com in Parental Controls on the backen of the router at 10.0.0.1 and my son is still able to watch Youtube videos. For the love of god and all that is holy, please help us!
I am having the same difficulty! The suggestion on xfinity page DOES NOT WORK! I tried parental controls to block application but YouTube still opens! I can't even uninstall it!! Did you find a solution??
Same issue. Waisted 2 hours chatting with useless support person who eventually even tried to sale more services. Obviously Comcast has some special relationships with YouTube that prevents it from blocking. Looking forward either to buy own router or switch internet provider.
Welcome to the control of the American TV. My kid is really upsetting me also, I want to sell the TV for 5 dollars, just so I can get this YouTube crap off of the TV. You cannot log into the router, they locked us out. This is totally nuts..
I can sympathize with the parents who want parental internet control on this, but you're not going to get it from a cable company. Going forward, and in a very short time frame (already implemented in browsers like Firefox), DNS lookups are encrypted as a default setting.
What that means, is control from a central network point at an ISP will continue to be less and less effective. Cloudflare did a nice write up on that here that explains the technology:
Doesn't mean you are out of luck. What it does mean is you are going to have to do it locally. You are either going to have to ditch the Xfinity equipment and run your own gateway and a router to do the filtering like one of these, and an add-on package like pfblocker-ng (there are many) https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocker.html , or the alternative is that you install parental control software directly on the device the kid uses, and make sure they only have an unprivileged account. That way, the device itself filters the decrypted content and does the blocking.
The unprivileged account also makes changing network connections and other methods to bypass your net nanny more difficult, but never impossible depending on the skill level of your kid (or their friends).
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I have blocked youtube.com in Parental Controls on the backen of the router at 10.0.0.1 and my son is still able to watch Youtube videos. For the love of god and all that is holy, please help us!
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amarkavtsov
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Obviously Comcast has some special relationships with YouTube that prevents it from blocking. Looking forward either to buy own router or switch internet provider.
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Welcome to the control of the American TV. My kid is really upsetting me also, I want to sell the TV for 5 dollars, just so I can get this YouTube crap off of the TV. You cannot log into the router, they locked us out. This is totally nuts..
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I can sympathize with the parents who want parental internet control on this, but you're not going to get it from a cable company. Going forward, and in a very short time frame (already implemented in browsers like Firefox), DNS lookups are encrypted as a default setting.
What that means, is control from a central network point at an ISP will continue to be less and less effective. Cloudflare did a nice write up on that here that explains the technology:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-encryption-explained/
Doesn't mean you are out of luck. What it does mean is you are going to have to do it locally. You are either going to have to ditch the Xfinity equipment and run your own gateway and a router to do the filtering like one of these, and an add-on package like pfblocker-ng (there are many) https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocker.html , or the alternative is that you install parental control software directly on the device the kid uses, and make sure they only have an unprivileged account. That way, the device itself filters the decrypted content and does the blocking.
The unprivileged account also makes changing network connections and other methods to bypass your net nanny more difficult, but never impossible depending on the skill level of your kid (or their friends).
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Please create a new topic of your own here on this board detailing your issue. Thanks. Year old dead now being closed.
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