# YouTube question - blocking channels?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-question-blocking-channels/782090>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 13, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-question-blocking-channels/782090 "2017-03-13T14:38:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-question-blocking-channels/782090/1 "2017-03-13T14:38:55Z")

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Is there a way to block a specific channel on YouTube?

I know there are settings which permit the user to say they would prefer to see videos which fit into a certain age category.

However, there does not appear to be a way to build a list of channels which I don’t want to see ever again. I don’t want them to appear in the suggested video list once they are placed on my “blocked” list.

I know I am not the first person to ask for this, as complaints are all over the web. I have searched, but have not found anything that would be described as a simple solution.

I can understand YouTube’s desire to shove everything and anything at their users, but it is not a good long term business strategy.

Is this a problem that YouTube simply does not want to solve, or have they made it impossible for a browser like firefox to not permit a plug-in to do this easily?

I can block ads, but I can’t block an annoying channel? This seems strange to me, as I would think YouTube would prefer that I stay on their site and not look for an alternative instead of forcing me to self-filter channels that waste my time and/or make YouTube a less desireable web destination.

Hope this is clear. I see this as a simple “block list”, where I can add a channel to the list, and that list can be updated easily whenever I encounter a channel I never want to see again. From a technical perspective, this should be easy, which is why I believe YouTube (i.e. Google) is making it difficult, if not impossible, to implement.

If anyone has a solution to this, please provide the broswer required and the plug-in (or whatever) needed.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-question-blocking-channels/782090/2 "2017-03-13T14:59:15Z")

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**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-question-blocking-channels/782090/3 "2017-03-14T23:10:38Z")

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Excellent!

Thank you!

Is it safe to assume these extensions will work on a mobile device?

(Even if they don’t, at least it is something I can use on the laptop. Thanks again.