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by yedpodtrzitko 1363 days ago
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

2 comments

I second the BlockTube recommendation. It's great for spoiler avoidance too!

Put in keywords like:

  "ending explained"
  "top 10"
  "death scene"
  "betrayal scene"
  "all bosses"
  "all endings"
as well as series names that you don't want to be spoiled on, and suddenly your Youtube experience will be much better.
There's a certain type of Westerner that really likes Japan so perhaps it mistakenly identified you as this based on your other interests.