blocktube

BlockTube also has an advanced blocking feature[0], which lets you define blocks using JavaScript if statements. You can flip it around to a whitelist-system by returning true (block) by default, and returning false (don't block) on your rules. But this does hide videos from search, recommended, homepage, etc. What you're suggesting could potentially be done by creating an extension which checks the channel_id, then blocks calls to the /videoplayback endpoint if the channel is not whitelisted. Though do be aware that titles and thumbnails could also be explicit. Side note: All of this is very technical and not suitable for the average parent, which is not great. [0] https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube/wiki/Advanced-Blocking

YouTube fundamentally does not respect the time or attention of users - even if you pay for YouTube Premium. The only way I can stomach YT at this point is with blocktube and unhook; I can disable parts of the interface, block channels and content individually or with regular expressions, and filter comments with regex - a necessity given how many scams are being run right now. I dread the day they drop RSS feeds for channel updates. https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube https://unhook.app/ Edit: also see how YT search gives you unrelated nonsense. User-hostile may as well be their mission statement at this point.

I dont see it mentioned BlockTube extension [0] anywhere in the comments yet. It automatically blocks videos/channels based on your defined keywords and it works perfectly. For some period of time my main YT page was filled with a variation of videos about "walking in Tokyo". I'm not interested in walking in cities nor Japan, so I have no idea where that came from. No matter how many of these videos I marked as "not interested", more of them kept coming for days. Blocktube just automatically purged them for me. Sometime I saw just a blank page (because all the videos were blocked automatically), so I had to reload page to see at least something. It took some time to get rid off the "noise", but my YT experience is now way better. [0] https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube

Yeah, the hate flows strongly doesn't it? But, the BlockTube extension from Chrome can be configured to hide channels/videos based on Unicode regexps. An equally honked off YT user asked about this problem on the project's Github page and got some suggestions. https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube/issues/38