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One of the best things you can do is implement a strict no FB, Instagram, tiktok, snapchat .. future social media policy. Secondly, stop using those services y
by yumraj 4y ago
One of the best things you can do is implement a strict no FB, Instagram, tiktok, snapchat .. future social media policy.
Secondly, stop using those services yourself and take every opportunity to tell them how much crap they are and how they should not be used.
They will listen to you since you yourself are not using them. If you use them and tell them not to, of course it's not going to work.
Once social media is out of the picture, you've taken care of the worst crap. Rest is incremental and you can build on the above.
Use pihole, other DNS filtering services to help filter other services.
- api 4y agoYou forgot YouTube. Its addictiveness to children is terrifying. But yeah, I agree. A pi-hole is essential.
- yumraj 4y agoI fully agree, but You Tube is a weird one for two reasons: 1) for some of reason, blocking YT is not working on network. I need to figure it out. This problem could be limited to me. 2) YT is used by various educational sites to just w videos. So, if I block YT, they stop working. Note: I’m not referring to visiting YouTube.com directly, but embedded videos in other sites. So, this makes it hard to block YT. What I have done instead is not installed the YouTube app on the TV and settop box. This has somewhat controlled YT use, but not fully unfortunately.
- api 4y agoI use yt-dlp (the maintained fork of youtube-dl) for school videos and put them on our in house Jellyfin. If we can’t do that I email our teacher. I would rather them miss homework than unban YouTube. Schools need to stop using addictionware sites to deliver videos.