Comment by ryeats
2 months ago
I tried to block YouTube when my kids were remote learning during the pandemic, it took several attempts and they were in grade school. They even got around Apple's considerable content controls I had to set up a DNS proxy.
My condolences, you are raising software engineers.
all kids in 2025 are SWEs :)
Did you tell them "Don't do that or there will be consequences" and then apply the consequences? Carrot and stick is a time-honored method that works.
At my son's school they recently started blocking ChatGPT, not because kids were using it to cheat, but because kids kept asking ChatGPT how to get around the content controls, and it would constantly find new ways to proxy or evade.
Best way is to block at the router.
They will just start to use the onion Router.
Not even states can block internet access 100%