Not able to block youtube shorts on phone

[Jasenko Rakovic]

In am trying to block m.youtube.com/shorts/* but no luck.

Everything else is fine.

[rafael....@diladele.com]

Good morning Jasenko,

Most probably due to https://docs.diladele.com/faq/filtering/youtube_app.html

Best regards,

Rafael

[Jasenko Rakovic]

Good day Rafael 🙂

I am not using App, its via tablet browser, directly on m.youtube.com

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[Rafael Akchurin]

May I ask an example of URL which should be blocked and is not? With the corresponding regex which is not triggered as you would expect.

You are doing https decryption, right?

Best regards,

Rafael

Op 5 okt. 2023 om 16:55 heeft Jasenko Rakovic <jasenko...@maratus.xyz> het volgende geschreven:



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[Jasenko Rakovic]

Yes decryption is working fine and  it works for channel and single video restriction as designed.

None of these rules work for url https://m.youtube.com/shorts/vqoIomGs_k0

https://.*youtube.com/shorts*  
^https:\/\/m\.youtube\.com\/shorts\/[^ \n]+$
https:\/\/m\.youtube\.com\/shorts*
https://.youtube\.com\/shorts*  
https://.youtube\.com\shorts*  
https://.youtube\.com/shorts*  
.*shorts.*  
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/*  
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/.*
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/.  
https:\/\/*\.youtube\.com\/.    
^https?://m\.youtube\.com/shorts/.*
^(?:https?:\/\/\w*\.?)?(youtube\.com\/|youtu\.be?\/)+(watch\?v=|shorts\/)

[rafael....@diladele.com]

So for me to better understand:

The URL block regex rules you mentioned below do NOT block https://m.youtube.com/shorts/vqoIomGs_k0

https://.*youtube.com/shorts*  
^https:\/\/m\.youtube\.com\/shorts\/[^ \n]+$
https:\/\/m\.youtube\.com\/shorts*
https://.youtube\.com\/shorts*  
https://.youtube\.com\shorts*  
https://.youtube\.com/shorts*  
.*shorts.*  
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/*  
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/.*
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/.  
https:\/\/*\.youtube\.com\/.    
^https?://m\.youtube\.com/shorts/.*
^(?:https?:\/\/\w*\.?)?(youtube\.com\/|youtu\.be?\/)+(watch\?v=|shorts\/) 

Correct?

If so see if the following rule would block it:

https?:\/\/m\.youtube\.com\/shorts\/.*

I have tested it using https://regex101.com/#python - seems to trigger the match.

Best regards,

Rafael

[Shepherd Follower]

I too would like to block the shorts videos so please let us know if there is a solution out there for that on this filtering platform.

-Stephen Martin

[justina...@gmail.com]

I can also confirm with the above -- it appears that regex blocking of Youtube shorts does not work. I'm testing on most-recent version of Websafety virtual appliance.

Reference Regex: \/*youtube\.com\/shorts\/.*
URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/roc6D14F7lg

Please advise -- Thanks!

[Rafael Akchurin]

Could you make a dump as shown at https://webproxy.diladele.com/docs/faq/proxy/how_to_capture_trafic_in_browser/ ?

 

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Subject: Re: Not able to block youtube shorts on phone

 

I can also confirm with the above -- it appears that regex blocking of Youtube shorts does not work. I'm testing on most-recent version of Websafety virtual appliance.

 

Reference Regex: \/*youtube\.com\/shorts\/.*
URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/roc6D14F7lg

 

Please advise -- Thanks!

On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 11:05:28 AM UTC-4 shepherdf...@gmail.com wrote:

I too would like to block the shorts videos so please let us know if there is a solution out there for that on this filtering platform.

-Stephen Martin

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 6:06:05 PM UTC-4 jasenko...@maratus.xyz wrote:

In am trying to block m.youtube.com/shorts/* but no luck.

Everything else is fine.

 

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[justina...@gmail.com]

Log file sent as requested.

[rafael....@diladele.com]

Ok - the URL regex "https?\:\/\/.*\.youtube\.com\/shorts.*" blocks the URL for shorts.

BUT - you tube app running in the browser does not use that URL to display shorts - it uses a very obscure series of requests to .googlevideo.com site to actually retrieve the video stream for that short video.

Proxy works at the per request level - and I am not able to understand to what short video the request (see below) refers. Hence I am not able to block it.

The whole YT filtering functionality become obsolete due to changes in you tube implementation and most probably we will completely remove this from the application.

Please if you have any experience in this or can think out the way to identify a video from the stream - share it.

Sorry,

Raf

https://rr3---sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1698849275&ei=mw1CZaPYIYzigAft2a2IDw&ip=82.172.135.168&id=o-ANyMmKik9xP9j1zFl-1djeLPnVjQUaEmNnVm0X4xmfVj&itag=396&aitags=133%2C134%2C135%2C136%2C137%2C160%2C242%2C243%2C244%2C247%2C248%2C278%2C394%2C395%2C396%2C397%2C398%2C399&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=X0&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-uhvcpaxoa-guhe%2Csn-5hnekn7d&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=22&ctier=SH&initcwndbps=932500&spc=UWF9f2mPJDBFpU2eZmKdp-v_wwNSfhw&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&ns=naGhyHt3j_5E0y2DwJNse4AP&gir=yes&clen=1366487&dur=41.840&lmt=1694456928124371&mt=1698827111&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=24007246&beids=24350018&c=WEB&txp=5537434&n=kK_mfR3Rj0wXUQ&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Caitags%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cctier%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Cns%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AGM4YrMwRAIgWn3BVwZlWj-rV-V9igKdsQd6v-e5qeE7dBeyLTzCS8ACIGecc3W9lFAnm1NmVF3EbmjIE9wtMnzmwWtd-xm4ZcVK&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AK1ks_kwRQIhAM9DFylNQ2_hJ-VDxvciGEOmYZ393fRQdEXsJpeANBr_AiBT6o8k1doMbMajWNKzOi-i5aOBw9NHkeCNecKGzAfReg%3D%3D&alr=yes&cpn=CgILke1z1SzQAuwO&cver=2.20231030.04.00&range=0-81330&rn=26&rbuf=0&pot=IjLvje-Mis_iFqzqm_m45N-_vryI9I7Jh92N9IbbgrmG_K3npsSs6qXCu8-mzqrqrqjcyQ==&ump=1&srfvp=1&altitags=395%2C394

[justina...@gmail.com]

Thank you for the info here Rafael -- am I reading your message correctly that the main issue arises here with the fact that the Browser is the issue and not the YT app itself? For instance, will the above Regex block YT shorts on the ios app?

[rafael....@diladele.com]

Unfortunately it is the way how youtube works - it is not possible to block it  on the proxy level - not for browser and not for ios app.