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Does anyone know how I can block youtube from internet explorer and google chrome? It sucks up my data like crazy and since I pay by gb's, thats one website I really dont need.
Last edited by country pride; 08-06-2014 at 03:45 PM..
Look into OpenDNS. It's free, fairly easy to setup and will do exactly what you want, plus it gives you a lot of other options as to what kind of sites you might want to block.
If windows IE- tools[top, right corner circle], internet options, privacy tab, sites box, add name of site to block.
And instead of 'sites' box, click 'advanced' to block or prompt third party cookies and trackers.
Blocking "youtube.com" will have a limited effect. Most of the actual content is served from servers with names like "r14---sn-a5m7zned.c.googlesyndication.com", and a single video can load different chunks of the content from several different servers.
Blocking "youtube.com" will limit access to the YT home page, but YT videos could still be embedded in web pages, accessed through 3rd party apps (think Roku), etc. It can easily turn into a frustrating game of cat and mouse.
Set up OpenDNS and be done with it. Let them do all that work.
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