[Privoxy-users] youtube, vimeo & others

[Kirk Wolff]

Hello, 
I'm trying to control what videos my children are allowed to see on their devices and I've played with squidguard and dansguardian. The YouTube content filter is totally unsuitable for what i want to do. I want to approve each video they are allowed to see so they aren't able to distract themselves from their schoolwork.

Unfortunately the online program they use draws from many different video hosting sites. It's not as simple as filtering on the video url because the embedded player calls on innumerable uris. Also, Microsoft family seems to mostly work, but it doesn't block search within a page on YouTube or Vimeo which means they can watch anything they want from any allowed video page.

Since what I'm basically trying to do is filter, i would think privoxy would be powerful enough to accomplish this. One thing I've noticed is there's something about "YouTube API v3 key" that a few commercial offerings are using for filtering YouTube, but this doesent address other platforms. Does anyone understand how to do this?

- Kirk