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Feature request: Block a channel from search results

Open au2232 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Requesting a feature that will allow blocking of a YT channel and its videos from search results.

Not sure if this is possible or appropriate for the purpose of this project, but YT has no actual "block user" function that I could find. There are some videos in my search results that I do not want to see at all, and they keep showing up in the search result even though they are not relevant. Apparently blocking users was possible in the past, but YT since removed that option. Now, the closest thing is either blocking a channel from commenting on your channel, or hitting "do not recommend" if the video shows up on your home page.

au2232 avatar Jul 14 '23 02:07 au2232

I think this is a good idea -- I guess it should be possible in principle to do something like keep track of a list of user names and then we can block results that match those user names in the search results, but it'll take me a bit of thinking

I'll keep it in mind for the next release!

ulyngs avatar Aug 01 '23 12:08 ulyngs