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You can’t even block YouTube on your kids devices because Screen Time doesn’t see that YT is installed.

A known bug for years now.

Then good luck getting the time limits to work. It’ll tell the kids “5 minutes left!” then just let them keep going.

And then Google intentionally makes it hard to filter their stuff, too. I can ostensibly enforce YouTube limits on my Firewalla, but if I try to do that, it basically ends up blocking Google altogether. Because Google serves up some YouTube assets from google.com. I doubt very much this is by accident.

That’s odd as I do that quite successfully with my kids.

Parental controls are far superior to Microsoft and epic.

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