One thing to bear in mind with blocking websites at the router level is it often won’t work for HTTPS sites (the router i have has a warning saying that the blocking function doesn’t work with HTTPS), in fact when i was still in school, a LOT of students discovered that the website blocker the school used could be bypassed using HTTPS (and even some of the teachers knew about the HTTPS bypass method, even though youtube was technically blocked, the teachers sometimes ALLOWED us to go on youtube using this bypass method)
It is per user if you do it in Screen Time. But the hosts file should do it for all. But if you want that, you probably want the site blocked on other devices too, so maybe look for a Wi-Fi network solution instead on a single-Mac one.
This method perfectly works for me with all the other browsers like - chrome, brave, firefox etc. but just not with safari, i even tried clearing the in app cache from safari settings i am able to access the websites only in safari. Why is this? What could have i done wrong?
hey Gary, i'm stuck on something and that something is finding the password. i tried my actual password to get in my mac but doesn't seem to work or is there some other password you're talking about? if so please reply and help me out.
Do you mean the root password in the Terminal? Which version of macOS do you have? Is your user account a "standard" account rather than an "admin" account by any chance?
Hey! I have question. I have the old Macbook Air, and i opened terminal app and wrote this first line ( sudo nano /ect/hosts ). THEN it just stopped trew out this PASSWORD and thats it… what should i do?
@@rhettshipley4593 Fields like that will "highlight" to show they are active, yes. I can't see what you are seeing, but I'm not hearing anything that you should be concerned about.
how can i block a site for a specific profile on my mac? for example I as admin am happy to see youtube, but i dont want my kids profiles to be able to access youtube
I think you mean Mac accounts, right? (Profiles are something else). Yes, the Screen Time settings are for each account. Just set restrictions in the account you want.
Have tried the terminal method a hundred times in different ways. Cleared my cache. Quit my browsers. Restarted my mac. Tried using it in incognito. Doesn't work. You should retest it and update the video accordingly.
Perhaps you have something else going on, like a browser extensions, VPN app, etc? Something that is bypassing the hosts file. Or maybe you are missing a step in setting up the hosts file?
System Settings, Network, then select your connection (Wi-Fi, for instance). That tells you the IP address on your local (home) network. If you want to know your Internet IP address you have to go into the settings for your network equipment (DSL, cable, etc) Or just ask Google "What's My IP address" in a search.
@@macmost Thanks @macmost , I review it again and doesn’t work again, the weird is that avoid me to open Google drive and I never write that address in the terminal neither the screen time.
No. You need to use some third-party solution, probably on your network equipment. You can't keep track of all of the domain names and IP addresses yourself.
What an absurdly complicated way to simply block a URL from your computer. I have both windows and apple computers and apple is absolutely crap at doing simple tasks like this.
