Hello,

I just enabled Circle Premium on my Orbi router and have set up profiles for all people in my home. I am trying to block access to Youtube for just a few devices that my kids use for school.

Configuration:

All school devices have been assigned by mac address to the appropriate child's profile.

Profiles for all children are assigned the "Kid" level Filter.

The "Kid" level filters have further been restricted by selecting "Not Allowed" for Youtube.

According to the Circle Guides, this should block access to the Youtube site.

Results:

Even with this configuration, my kids can still open a tab in their browsers and go to youtube and watch videos.

Debug steps:

1) If I go to the "home" page of the circle app on my phone, and choose "devices" in the upper right corner, and select the specific device that my child is using, and click the "pause" button for that device, Internet access is shutdown for that device as expected.

This proves that I have assigned the correct device to my child's profile. So this is not an issue of incorrect device being selected for the profile.

2) The only other thing I can think of is that the device is a Chromebook that is being signed into with a child's account for the local public school system. I'm not sure if that sets up a VPN?? If it sets up a VPN, then perhaps the circle cannot actually see the traffic on the device and restrict access?

Anyone have any thoughts here?

Thanks!

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Circle is not blocking youtube