New LGFL "Moderately Severe" YouTube Restrictions & iPads

[nickb23]

Hi Guys,

We have started using LGFL's "Moderately Restricted" restrictions, from "Severe Restricted", and it does seem to make YouTube a lot me useful. But I have found that these settings seem to have absolutely no effect on the YouTube app on IOS and Android. I had an iPad yesterday I was testing on, and I did a search for "sex" in that app. Lots of inappropriate content came up - like it was fully unrestricted. I then went to Safari and used the web version of YouTube and again searched for "sex". A much more restricted search that I would expect with "Moderately Restricted"

 

I then put the settings back (New DNS IP's) so that it was "Severely Restricted". Again full access to unrestricted YouTube via the App. I have now removed the App from the iPads until I get a reply back from Atomwide.

 

Has anyone got an idea why the YouTube app seems to bypass LGFL's YouTube restrictions??

 

Thanks

 

Nick

[KevinH]

App uses a different delivery channel so DNS restriction does not work.

 

Discussion: https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/youtube/qQdQxNI-tqo

[Face-Man]

If you have managed iPads you could try using the youtube kids app instead of full youtube app.

 

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/youtube-kids/id936971630?mt=8

 

However even on managed devices the user can always change the ip address settings to static to use a different DNS server anyway. Personally I'm looking at putting iPads in a different ssid and subnet to manage the filtering them that way but that needs to get added to a long list of work to be done.