
What Happens When You Browse to ?īefore I give any answers away, a little bit of thinking is in order. I have IPv6 at home, so The Solution will need to apply to IPv6 as well.Īnd, the vast majority of my video traffic is HTTPS, so The Solution mustn’t be thwarted by encryption. It would be nice if The Solution can be brought home so I can kick kids off video sites, but still let them do homework hosted on other domains. The ones my kids gravitate towards: YouTube, Netflix, and iView. I want my Mikrotik to block access to a small number of video websites.

Update : I’ve added an effectiveness section to each technique I’ve described here, based on my experience over the last few months. However, my kids (and adults, if we’re honest with ourselves) love watching YouTube videos.īut they have no sense of how much data these can consume, and there’s no such thing as unlimited (or even “unlimited” but-not-really-unlimited) mobile data in Australia. That will give us Internet access for laptops and a desktop. My family is going on holiday shortly, and I’ll be taking a Mikrotik router with an Android phone and 4G Internet connection.

How to stop people accessing YouTube (and other sites).
