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[Feature Request] New Default / Adult Filter / Family Protection Variants
While restricted mode in youtube is useful for kids, it can be a pain to use for an environment of adults due to lots of false positives on youtube, so can we have a variant of family filter without forced youtube restricted mode? Or if not possible is there a way to bypass it while still using family filter? thanks.
Well, but the family protection DNS is supposed to be used by kids.
To bypass it you'll need to add www.youtube.com with its normal address to your local hosts file
Ok, but is it possible to have a variant without forcing restricted mode? As I stated before we would love to have adblock and adult site blocking in a simple to configure dns but at the same time still be able to use youtube.. Restricted mode in youtube as it stands rn is a mess, it has a lot of false positives, while that can be a non-issue if the users were kids, it can be an annoying experience for adults.. since forcing it in family filter I can't use it on home router nor recommend it to people due to recurring complaints of youtube being unusable, were some troubleshooting videos for example weren't accessible, same with some tutorials.. so as it stands out family filter is not always used in kids only environments.. I think I have seen similar complaints also on the forum and reddit, so I hope we get a varient of family filter without forced restricted mode if possible.. thanks
@Tomatoide I understand, but that'd be too complicated to have a different DNS configuration for every user. That's why we have AdGuard Home -- so that power users could install it and setup as they wish.
Fair enough, I already knew about adguard home but it sounded like an overkill for my use case so I hoped a modified family filter would be a possibility, anyways thanks for responding.
Update: so I decided to give adguard home a quick try, and unfortunately it also doesn't give you the option to disable forced restricted mode on youtube unless you disable safe search ENTIRELY on other search engines for example along with it, so sadly no solution in adguard home either...
@Tomatoide uh, my bad! The difference is that we will actually make it configurable there.
Meanwhile, the temporary solution would be to add @@||youtube.com to your custom filtering rules.
@ameshkov The thing is, in my case, I don't have a permanent device to set adguard home on and leave it working 24/7, it's a simple home router and also I'm the "family tech guy" and I'm not here all the time so a simple dns setup on the home router with less probability for anything to go wrong later on is a much much better solution in this scenario..
Actually this is a suggestion for adguard dns I hope it can happen in the near future, maybe the next milestone? (should I open another issue for it? or may be rename this one?):
Default:
- Block ads, trackers, malicious and phishing domains
Adult filter: [NEW!]
- Block ads, trackers, malicious and phishing domains
- Block access to adult, pornographic and explicit sites, nsfw reddit subs
- Block proxies or VPNs #11
- Enforce safe search on search engines
Family protection:
- Block ads, trackers, malicious and phishing domains
- Block access to adult, pornographic and explicit sites
- Block mixed content sites (like Reddit)
- Block proxies or VPNs #11
- Enforce safe search on search engines
- Youtube restricted mode
Update: so I decided to give adguard home a quick try, and unfortunately it also doesn't give you the option to disable forced restricted mode on youtube unless you disable safe search ENTIRELY on other search engines for example along with it, so sadly no solution in adguard home either...
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/1163
I also agree with this request. I'm willing to pay a subscription cost as well.
