[squid-users] Squid + Squidguard Youtube URL video filtering

Roberto Carna robertocarna36 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 14:27:09 UTC 2018


Dear Marcus, please can you tell me the way to do what you suggest?

Suppose I want to block youtube.com but enable only one URL video
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/ff9sDLGtnK8?rel=0&showinfo=0".

How should I set te DNS entries please?

Regards,

2018-08-17 9:51 GMT-03:00 Marcus Kool <marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com>:
> OP asked about blocking Youtube but allowing a single Youtube video.
> How would you do that with a couple of DNS entries ?
>
> Marcus
>
> On 16/08/18 22:11, SQUIDBLACKLIST.ORG wrote:
>>
>> This might be painfully obvious to some who are in the know, but,
>> filtering youtube video content can be done with a lot less effort by simply
>> adding a couple dns entries for Googles safesearch servers.
>>
>> #justsayin
>>
>>
>>
>> Signed,
>>
>> Benjamin E. Nichols
>> Founder &  Chief Architect
>> http://www.squidblacklist.org
>> 1-405-301-9516
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Marcus Kool <marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com>
>> Date: 8/16/18 7:53 PM (GMT-06:00)
>> To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid + Squidguard Youtube URL video filtering
>>
>> yes, with ufdbguard you put
>>      youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID
>> in a urls file and create a URL table with ufdbGenTable.
>> ufdbGenTable adds many URLs automagically, i.e.
>>      youtube.com/embed/VIDEOID
>>      youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=VIDEOID
>>      ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi/VIDEOID
>> and many more.
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>> On 16/08/18 11:01, Vacheslav wrote:
>>  > Wouldn't it be better to try it in ufdbguard?
>>  >
>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  > From: squid-users <squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org> On Behalf
>> Of Amos Jeffries
>>  > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 4:18 PM
>>  > To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
>>  > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid + Squidguard Youtube URL video
>> filtering
>>  >
>>  > On 17/08/18 00:43, Roberto Carna wrote:
>>  >> Dear, I have Squid + Squidguard working OK.
>>  >>
>>  >> Squidguard is filtering the entire www.youtube.com website.
>>  >>
>>  >> But now I have to permit just one video from Youtube:
>>  >>
>>  >> https://www.youtube.com/embed/ff9sDLGtnK8?rel=0&showinfo=0
>>  >>
>>  >> I have added the below URL as an exception in Squidguard:
>>  >>
>>  >> www.youtube.com/embed/ff9sDLGtnK8?rel=0&showinfo=0
>>  >>
>>  >> but after that I can't see it, still blocked.
>>  >>
>>  >> How can I enable just this URL from Squidguard preferently blocking
>>  >> the rest of Youtube ???
>>  >
>>  >> Unfortunately only with a great deal of difficulty.
>>  >
>>  >> The "?v=..." and "/embed/..." URLs are just public identifiers to
>> access the YouTube APIs. At the HTTP level they result in a quite long
>> series of sub-requests, redirections and the like bouncing all over the
>>  > youtube.* and googlevideos.* and googleapis.* domains.
>>  >   Yes all of them are involved multiple times. So whitelisting is an
>> all-or-nothing prospect, with other G services being implicitly whitelisted
>> as side effects.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >> Also, whenever the way to decipher the above maze of traffic gets
>> published so we can do things like what you ask. YT shortly afterwards
>> change how it operates - usually towards even more complexity. This has
>> happened too many times to be coincidence IMO.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >> Amos
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