[stepram]

I use DD-WRT at home and have some young kids. The time has come to restrict some youtube access.

I tried the cname route with the following in DNSMASQ
--cname=www.google.com,forcesafesearch.google.com
--cname=www.youtube.com,m.youtube.com,youtubei.googleapis.com,youtube.googleapis.com,www.youtube-nocookie.com,restrict.youtube.com

however as per thread here the cname Function dose not work. https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=704052

Therefore I was directed here https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1186924#1186924 and tried:

echo '' > /etc/hosts
echo '127.0.0.1 localhost' >> /etc/hosts
echo '216.239.38.120 www.google.com' >> /etc/hosts

However, this does not redirect the Google search to safe search only.

Google instructions here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669?hl=en

and here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6214622?visit_id=637135970381628754-1488549170&rd=1

Any advice welcome.

Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r37305 std (10/10/1Cool on Netgear R7000