🔗 How to block YouTube Videos

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🔗 Outline

This example covers the blocking of all YouTube.com videos. Which is actually very easy. They are encrypted, so no caching is possible

🔗 Squid Configuration File

Google are using one subdomain of youtube.com for authenticating all google services, including Docs and Gmail. If you were intending to block only YouTube access this needs to be whitelisted from the denial.

Add this to squid.conf before the part where you allow people access to the Internet.

## The videos come from several domains
acl youtube_domains dstdomain .youtube.com .googlevideo.com .ytimg.com

## G* services authentication domain
acl gLogin dstdomain accounts.youtube.com

http_access deny youtube_domains !gLogin

To block not all YT, but some clips, use focused acl rule:

# Block YT clips
acl yt_clips url_regex .youtube\.com\/watch\?v=lr_m3GW5Cws
http_access deny yt_clips

You also can specify clips list as file.

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