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How to block YouTube on Microsoft Edge
For a child’s Microsoft account, use Microsoft Family Safety: turn on web filtering for Edge and add youtube.com to Blocked sites. For your own profile, Edge has no built-in site blocker, so use an extension: a site blocker removes YouTube entirely, while FeedCut keeps it and removes Shorts, the Home feed and the channels you choose.
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Short answer
A child’s account: Family Safety → your child → Edge → web filtering → Blocked sites → youtube.com. Your own profile: a site-blocking extension. Just the bad parts: FeedCut. A company PC: your IT department, through Edge policies.
For a child: Microsoft Family Safety
If your child signs in to Windows with their own Microsoft account in your family group, Family Safety can filter what they open in Edge. From Microsoft’s help page:
Sign in to your Microsoft account and open Family Safety
Find your child and choose Go to overview.
Select Edge as the platform
Turn on Filter inappropriate websites and searches.
Add youtube.com under Blocked sites
Or go the other way and turn on Only use allowed websites, so your child can open only the sites you list.
Two details from Microsoft make this stronger than it sounds. Filters only work in supported browsers, currently Edge, so when filtering is on, other browsers are blocked to stop it being bypassed. And your child has to be signed in to their Microsoft account in Edge for it to apply. The same settings are in the Family Safety app, under Content filters.
For yourself: an extension
Edge’s own settings have no list of blocked sites for your profile. An extension fills the gap, from Edge Add-ons or the Chrome Web Store, which Edge also supports. Decide first what you’re blocking:
- All of YouTube: a site-blocking extension. Some add schedules or a password, which helps if “just one video” is the problem.
- Only the parts that eat time: FeedCut. YouTube stays, Shorts and the Home feed go, and the channels you block disappear from search and Up next. A PIN keeps the settings in place.
Either way, switch on Allow in InPrivate in edge://extensions, or a private window opens YouTube untouched.
On a work or school PC
Organizations block sites in Edge with administrator policies, such as a URL block list, and can force YouTube’s Restricted Mode for their network. If YouTube is blocked on a company or school computer, those are the settings in play, and only the IT department can change them.
Blocking all of YouTube vs blocking the bad parts
| Block all of YouTube | Block the parts (FeedCut) | |
|---|---|---|
| Tutorials, lectures, music | Gone | Still there |
| Shorts and the Home feed | Gone | Gone |
| Specific channels and words | — | Blocked everywhere, including search |
| Links people send you | Blocked | Open normally; Shorts links open in the regular player |
A full block is the right call for a young child or for a week-long reset. For everyday use, removing the feeds keeps the useful part of YouTube and takes away much of the pull. Our guide to watching less explains why.
Questions
Can my child get around Family Safety by using Chrome?
Microsoft says that when web filtering is on, unsupported browsers are blocked so the filter can’t be bypassed. You can unblock a browser on purpose in the app and game filters.
Does Edge have a built-in site blocker for my own profile?
Not in its normal settings. For your own account, the options are an extension, or an administrator policy on a managed computer.
Will blocking YouTube in Edge block the YouTube app?
A blocked website and an installed app are separate. On Windows, Family Safety handles apps under app and game filters.
Can I block YouTube only during work hours?
Some site-blocking extensions have schedules. FeedCut doesn’t; it has a 10-minute pause that switches itself back on.
Take YouTube back to what you came for
Block channels, words and Shorts everywhere on YouTube. Free, no account, nothing leaves your browser.