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Comment by lancefisher | Hacker News Reader

We found a couple workarounds while Facebook was busy fixing this.

Option 2 could be helpful if you want to block it for privacy reasons.

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Does the adult filter work in apps? If so this seems like a lovely workaround for the lack of firewall.

It worked to fix this, so I’m assuming so.

I tried adding spotify.com as a limited adult website and I can still use the Spotify app normally. So either I'm missing something or it can't be used as a firewall.

You might be using their magical p2p network.

I tried with various app and I can’t break any of them. I’d be really interested in a firewall for iOS

The adult filter probably works like a DNS bkackhole and simply bans those websites from getting resolved.

I added YouTube.com under the restricted sites (not specifically as an adult site, just restricted) and it did stop my kids from going there directly, but they figured out that they can Shazam a song, use its “show song on Youtube” feature to get a fully functioning YouTube page and start working from there.

They can’t even read yet.

I am at the same time very proud at the l33t hacking skills and upset at their disregard for rules. But mostly proud.

I will check if “adult” blocking works better.

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