Help With URL Filtering

[teenug]

Hoping for some help here. My 7-year-old has autism and looking for some help to block individual YouTube videos.
 

For context, YouTube has been great for his learning so I don’t want to take it away but the odd video or two will be incredibly upsetting to him and we’re always surprised on what it is and how it changes over time.
 

There’s lots of tools to help filter porn and stuff but I need help for individual videos.
 

Here’s some examples - there’s nothing wrong with these videos at all but it is overstimulating for him so looking to block on an individual video/url level.
 

https://youtu.be/uan8qs0gRjI?si=bUoBRqtZamFaiW4O

https://youtu.be/6mRNVNU-FnA?si=Spn63QgYgjhj4Qwx

Here’s what I’ve tried - I have Eero routers so tried Eero Plus, Orange PI with Pi-Hole but they can only filter at domain level.

Tried using Squid and Privoxy on the Orange Pi but couldn’t get anything to work.

 

Also not looking for parenting advice - I know what I'm doing in that department.

 

[Sant_HH]

I believe youtube kids has the ability to block specific videos.

[Alex Atkin UK]

On 3/15/2025 at 3:18 AM, teenug said:

https://youtu.be/uan8qs0gRjI?si=bUoBRqtZamFaiW4O

https://youtu.be/6mRNVNU-FnA?si=Spn63QgYgjhj4Qwx

Here’s what I’ve tried - I have Eero routers so tried Eero Plus, Orange PI with Pi-Hole but they can only filter at domain level.

Tried using Squid and Privoxy on the Orange Pi but couldn’t get anything to work.

 

Also not looking for parenting advice - I know what I'm doing in that department.

 

The si= is a session ID, it will be different every time so naturally including that in the block wont work.

Also I would think you need to block the standard long URLs such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uan8qs0gRjI

 

That is only if using the Youtube website though.  I doubt you can block them when viewed via the mobile/tablet apps as they will talk to YouTube directly rather than using URLs, so you'd have to rely on Youtube Kids then.

[teenug]

On 3/16/2025 at 7:27 AM, Alex Atkin UK said:

The si= is a session ID, it will be different every time so naturally including that in the block wont work.

Also I would think you need to block the standard long URLs such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uan8qs0gRjI

 

That is only if using the Youtube website though.  I doubt you can block them when viewed via the mobile/tablet apps as they will talk to YouTube directly rather than using URLs, so you'd have to rely on Youtube Kids then.

 

I probably should have known that! Thanks for the help

 

I think I did find something that works which is a “supervised YouTube account” which does 95%
of what I need it to do which isn’t too bad.