As you probably already know, YouTube automatically recommends videos based on your search history and the videos and channels you visited before. Even though the feature has improved dramatically over the past couple of years, it’s still far from perfect. No algorithm will ever be as good as curating the content you receive yourself. Maybe you don’t agree with a youtuber’s opinion on a certain subject, or maybe you’re kids are using the account and you’re trying to prevent them from seeing NSFW content. Luckily, there are multiple ways of blocking specific channels, but none of them are obvious. Below you have a collection of methods that will enable you to block YouTube channels. Go through all of them until you find a solution that helps with your problem.
Method 1: Denying YouTube Video recommendations
The first logical step would be to try YouTube’s “in-house” partial way of blocking channels. I said partially because there isn’t really a native way of blocking channels on YouTube. The most you can do is block certain videos from appearing in your recommended feed. If you block a few videos from the channel you’re trying to avoid, YouTube will stop recommending you videos from that particular channel. You can deny a YouTube video recommendation by clicking on the three-dot icon next to the thumbnail of the video. From there, click on Not Interested. After that, repeat the procedure with a few other videos from that channel and I guarantee that you won’t see any videos from that channel ever again.
Method 2: Using the Video Blocker extension on Chrome, Opera or FireFox
This following method is by far the most efficient way of blocking a YouTube channel. To date, it’s still the only method for completely blocking channels on YouTube. You can use this extension to block content in three different ways. You can either block them by channel, by keyword or by wildcard. All the content blocked via Video Blocker will make them disappear from your YouTube account completely. After you finish with the method below, you won’t be able to find content from that particular channels in the recommendation bar. Even more, the channel won’t be visible even if you search for it. The steps below were performed on Chrome, but things are identical on Firefox and Opera.
Blocking Multiple YouTube Channels with Video Blocker
If you have multiple channels to block, there’s a way to streamline the whole process. You can block multiple YouTube channels at once by creating a JSON file and importing it into the Video Blocker extension. You can use almost every text editor that is able to save JSON files. I have used Notepad++. Follow the steps below to block multiple files with Video Blocker:
Method 3: Blocking a Youtube User
Hecklers are everywhere, and YouTube is no different. If you’re unlucky enough to have a user constantly hanging out in your comment section hating away, you can easily silence it. Although this won’t exactly block their channel, it will do a good job in silencing him. If videos from that particular user appear on in your recommended list, make sure you follow Method 1 and remove recommendations from that channel. The steps on blocking a YouTube User are different from platform to platform, but we are going to cover both desktop and mobile(Android & iOS).
On Desktop Devices
On Mobile (Android & iOS)
If you want to bock a user from your mobile app, you can easily do it by following the steps below. They won’t be able to comment to any of your posts, but you may still find some videos from that channel in your recommended bar. If you to prevent that, follow Method 1. Here’s how to block YouTube users from Android or iOS:
Method 4: Using Restricted Mode
The restricted mode will hide a lot of videos previously flagged by users for inappropriate content. YouTube also relies on different other signals like description, video title, and community guidelines to identify troublesome videos. If you want to get rid of questionable YouTube content, this might just be your best bet. If English is not your native language don’t worry, this mode is available in a lot of different languages. It’s also a safe way to allow your kids to watch YouTube. You can enable restricted mode by tapping on your user icon in the top-right section of the screen. From there, click on Restricted Mode.
After you enable it, YouTube will automatically filter the content according to various different guidelines.
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