Hi all - please tell me if I’m doing this wrong:
My 12yo spends all day on YouTube shorts. I want to block it, but can only block YouTube entirely. Blocking for everyone would upset my 15yo, so I need per-client domain filtering.
That was easy on Pi-hole. But my Raspberry died and I heard praise for Adguard Home so now I run that as a Docker container.
- I can’t figure out how to block YouTube for only some devices. Is that not possible with Adguard? Claude gives me complicated nonsense; you can easily do better.
I want to ditch Adguard and go back to Pihole. The caveat is that I must let Pihole run the DHCP server, in order to get correct per-client blocking. That’s a pity, as I have a neat UniFi network set up.
- Can I get Pihole’s per-client blocking without Pihole as DHCP?
I don’t mind setting it all up in Pihole again because I know it works (it’s how I had it before the Raspberry died). But I would love to know if I am going about this the wrong way? Thank you!
Just create a dhcp lease in unifi.
That’ll work great up until the kid finds out about changing the MAC address.
Do it the other way around then. All devices have youtube blocked by default UNLESS you have a reserved DHCP where it is allowed. I imagine if the former is possible, the latter should be possible too.
Good; incentive to go learn something. Have a plan in place to deal with it though.
Firewall rules don’t replace parenting.
Or uses a device that rotates mac
They rotate them across different SSIDs to make it harder to track you. in a residential setup they should basically never rotate.