how to block youtube but NOT youtube music

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rgormley1968

November 28, 2020 06:11

Has anyone got a solution to this?
I want to block youtube videos but still allow you tube music to play music
i have set these blocks/allows in opendns
googlevideo.com
ytimg.com
youtube.com
youtube-ui.l.google.com
ytimg.l.google.com
ytstatic.l.google.com
youtubei.googleapis.com

and i have set "never block the folllowing"
music.youtube.com
www.music.youtube.com

The problem is that (i think) that the youtube music site plays a video clip with the music (or a video add) and thus is blocked by opendns and the music site wont play any music
i have tried using a custom block "video sharing" but this give the same result

i have white listed
music.youtube.com
www.music.youtube.com

I want to block youtube but allow youtube music to play music
(for my daughter, she can listen to music, while doing homework, but not watch the mind numbing youtube time wasting video crap)

help! any ideas??

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  rotblitz November 28, 2020 14:39 (Edited November 28, 2020 14:46)

  The domain www.music.youtube.com does not exist, so you don’t need to whitelist it. It is included with music.youtube.com anyway.

  Here are the domains being used by music.youtube.com:
  https://www.webpagetest.org/result/201128_DiHR_7fbb7e606ae9554947d351c280984e07/1/domains/

  As you can see, they share at least the domain www.youtube.com with YouTube, and you need to whitelist it, maybe more. So I would not know how to set this up to still block YouTube. You may need to experiment until success. Good luck!

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  rgormley1968 November 29, 2020 00:38

  thanks for the info

  hhhmmmm i wonder how many other parents are in this situation, kids need to do homework, but are distracted by silly youtube videos...

  youtube is great and has it`s place... but the useless distracting stuff is over the top,,,

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  klooride December 02, 2020 22:04

  I may be wrong but I believe youtube music gets content from main youtube domain.

  I'm right now in your situation, I blocked youtube.com on my router only for kids' device.

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  rotblitz December 03, 2020 13:47

  Try with blocking youtube.com and the other domains in the original message, and with whitelisting music.youtube.com, s.ytimg.com and www.youtube.com.

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  d0g March 01, 2021 18:42

  Same boat, this worked for me ...

  Block: youtube.com

  Whitelist: googlevideo.com, accounts.youtube.com, music.youtube.com

  (I'm using NextDNS, so YMMV)

   

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