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> There is no way to inject myself into their YouTube experience on iOS devices.

Why don't you throttle YT on the iPads (via the firewall) so it's unwatchable, then blame Apple. You could make it somewhat intermittent to make it more convincing.

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That's a good idea. Does that require pihole or something? I've got that installed but wasn't aware that I could do that. I'm not aware of how you can throttle traffic without intercepting on the device directly.

Throttle on the DNS level. I do that.

Does this require support from the internet provider? I don't see any options on the eero devices that come with Frontier. Does this require an intermediate router that supports throttling? I feel like this is something that pi-hole should support.

you know your kids are just going to start asking for new ipads instead of becoming linux users

Maybe they can run a Linux viewer on an iPad to get the best of both.

Lying to your kids is a terrible idea, unless you want to breed distrust and resentment.

Leaving kids to navigate conquering something that adults haven't isn't super appealing either.

With the lack of options out there, finding a way to preview content before it's made available seems the way to go.

Doing it early and keeping it that way seems to be the trick. But kids will often learn there is a "different" youtube on other family member's phones, or kids at school.

This is the dilemma. They aren't rational about what YouTube does to their brains. They don't understand. And YouTube isn't honest either. What's the right approach to fight it other than complete abstinence?

There are a lot of dishonest actors in the Internet world, how do you be honest in a sea of drug dealers in another industry?

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