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It’s ridiculous that YouTube doesn’t allow blocking of channels. I find the prevalence of fake movie trailers to be absolutely infuriating, and I do not understand why YouTube and the IP holders don’t nuke those channels, or at least let people block them!

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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.

uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock are also fundamental for being able to tolerate YouTube.

Don't they have this? I hit the "don't recommend this channel" button and never see them again

it hides from recommendations, but not search results

It's always interesting to see how people use a site entirely differently from myself. I've only used YouTube to find a specific song/artist, so the only search result I'd click on is what I was looking for. From there, the recommendations are surprisingly decent. Do you usually search for a genre or something?

Is there a reason that you don't use YouTube Music for this?

Yeah, nothing makes me go to YouTube Music. Usually, if I'm listening to music on YouTube, it's because a YouTube video of a song came up in a search. If I was on YouTube already, then I had just used the search bar there. If I wasn't, the search engine wouldn't send me to YouTube Music. For music in general, I just use Spotify.

I can't be that weird about using music on YouTube rather than YouTube Music, the post shows someone doing the same thing.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you're weird, I was just wondering.

I'm usually searching for movie trailers in specific genres

Why nuke them when you can "divert" the revenue and enjoy free work, free eyeballs on your IP and so on? This is a "problem" that has been solved by the music industry. They leave every song with shitty lyrics on top but get the ad revenues via the tagging systems that Google implemengted. (agree with you that you should absolutely be able to ban channels)

YouTube as an app/website is broken beyond repair, I'm surprised they lasted long enough to be the de facto video hosting website...

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