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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by foobarian on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @05:03PM (#44739455)
I would love to block the shorts at home router level. I hesitate to just block the site altogether
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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by shortn on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:45PM (#44741224)
Don't their shorts go under https://www.youtube.com/shorts/

Maybe you can just block all URLs that falls under /shorts/

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by deviation on Thursday July 31, 2025 @04:28AM (#44743590)
Not router level, but "Enhancer for YouTube" has "Hide shorts" in its appearance preferences. Available on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

If I was a concerned parent, I'd just install and hide the extension from the bookmarks bar.

The downside being that it doesn't affect native YouTube apps for mobile devices...

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by deviation on Thursday July 31, 2025 @04:54AM (#44743717)
If you have a raspberry pi or some device laying around that you're happy to act as an always-on-server you could set it up as a Layer 7 firewall using something like Nginx to act as a reverse proxy for SSL/TLS interception.

Throw this into some LLM on research mode and I'm sure you could get some step-by-step instructions for setting it up.

I suppose it's not much different to a PiHole but instead of filtering out ads you're filtering out shorts.

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