I believe I mentioned this before and one of the answers I got was that I should have a better discussion with my kids which I agree, it all starts with a discussion, but I also would like to have technology in place to enforce, restrict, or limit what they can do in general.
The simplest solution is to take my kids' smart devices and give them flip phones or just nothing at all.
I already block traffic outright to certain domains, I also limit the time that devices work on the network. However, I would like to block a subset of traffic, ie. youtube shorts. AFAIK, I would need to use a proxy such as squid here where I would effectively be doing a man in the middle attack to inspect the traffic before blocking it.
I wanted to revisit this discussion because I'm not satisfied with what I'm doing presently.
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In theory, would it be possible to limit the number of new connections for a given device to a set of IPs? My thought is that watching youtube shorts would open and close connections more frequently than watching a longer video. So, this certainly would not block youtube shorts altogether but instead of going from one video to the next after a short period of time, you could perhaps watch 1 youtube shorts video per minute, enough to make it painful enough I think to deter watching shorts.
I will have to give this a try and report back.
The simplest solution is to take my kids' smart devices and give them flip phones or just nothing at all.
I already block traffic outright to certain domains, I also limit the time that devices work on the network. However, I would like to block a subset of traffic, ie. youtube shorts. AFAIK, I would need to use a proxy such as squid here where I would effectively be doing a man in the middle attack to inspect the traffic before blocking it.
I wanted to revisit this discussion because I'm not satisfied with what I'm doing presently.
EDIT:
In theory, would it be possible to limit the number of new connections for a given device to a set of IPs? My thought is that watching youtube shorts would open and close connections more frequently than watching a longer video. So, this certainly would not block youtube shorts altogether but instead of going from one video to the next after a short period of time, you could perhaps watch 1 youtube shorts video per minute, enough to make it painful enough I think to deter watching shorts.
I will have to give this a try and report back.
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