[nomilk]

I can't work out why youtube doesn't let you block a channel from search results with a single click.

I regularly search for nature videos. There are a handful of notorious channels that create absurd thumbnails and stitch together footage from completely different animal encounters to create an extravagant story that would be incredibly interesting if only it were real. Such channels are easy to spot but clutter results and keep showing up because they do trick a lot of people and are therefore seen as popular by youtube's algorithm.

[bcraven]

On mobile you can click the dot menu and choose "Don't recommend channel." I have clearly done this sufficiently to not have any of the issues the other commenters are having.

[jprete]

I think that only blocks them from recommendations, not search results.

[shiandow]

I've taken to removing videos that are obvious clickbait based on the title using uBlock Origin. Turns out that some words like 'but' pretty much only shows up in clickbait.

[nomilk]

That is interesting. What do you think the accuracy is? (I'd be a little worried about false positives i.e. omitting results I want to keep). Care to share the uBlock filter list you use? I'd like to try it.

[shiandow]

So far I think I've had one false positive for the word 'but', and tens of true positives. My theory is that the one thing clickbait video makers are not is creative.

To allow for false positives I've stolen an idea from HN and simply made the videos hard to see.

The current iteration of the filter looks something like:

     www.youtube.com###video-title-link:has-text(/^you won\'t|^you will not| but | except |^when the|reacts to|^when you|wait for it|^\d+ (\w+y|amazing|strange|best)/i):upward(.ytd-rich-item-renderer.style-scope):not(:hover):style(opacity:0.1)

I haven't gone through all possible ways that youtube pushes videos at you, so I may have missed a couple.