Why can’t you and what options you have

You are on YouTube, or even your son or daughter are watching videos, and suddenly one of a channel you consider inappropriate appears. YouTube does not allow to block videosIt is an option that they eliminated a few years ago and is no longer available, something that causes a lot of frustration, especially since the alternatives for the little ones in the house have quite improvable filters.

Therefore, we are going to inform you of all this, so that you are not looking for a madman or a crazy option that no longer appears. We are also going to tell you the alternatives you have available.

When can you or can’t block

We go with the bad news ahead. YouTube does not allow to block channels in the sense that when you do a search, its content does not appear. You cannot make public videos blockages related to these appear or do not appear in your feed.

All you can do is Ask YouTube to suggest less one channel When you are on the home screen, or even remove algorithms and recommendations. But at no time you will be blocking the channel, you will only be altering the recommendations.

Yes you can block the comments of a channel or user. This does not have to do with the content of this channel, but that it can be bothering you or leaving toxic comments. You have an option with which simply make all your past and future comments be erased or block from your videos.

Use the restricted mode

YouTube allows you activate your Restricted modewhat it does is hide videos that can contain content for adults. This mode only applies to the specific device browser where you activate it, so that you can do it individually in a place without this hindering the content shown in that same account in the rest of the devices.

The bad news is that this Restricted mode It does not block all adult videos nor of themes not suitable for minors. It is a very improvable filter, although a first shield that you can use.

To activate it on the mobile, click on your profile image and enter the configuration, where you then have to go to the section General To be able to see it. In the browser click on your profile image, and in the menu that is opened you can already click on it to activate or disable it.

For the little ones, YouTube Kids

If what worries you is what your children can see, you can use YouTube Kids, available in Youtubekids.com, In the App Store of the iPhone and In Google Play Android. It’s about An application for children to consume YouTube with several filters that make them not appear content not suitable for the age you have configured that they have.

The bad news is that YouTube Kids continues to show too many videos for adultssince not all inappropriate content for an age has been labeled as such. Therefore, it is not an optimal solution to block certain contents.

That the content of a channel comes out less

You cannot prevent the content of a channel from appearing when you searches for something on YouTube, you cannot block it so that it seems that it does not exist. The only relatively close is Ask YouTube to recommend less On your home page.

To do this, you have to press in the section of Start Within YouTube, where its algorithm proposes videos, both on the mobile and on the web. Once inside, click on the three -point button of a video belonging to the channel whose presence you want to reduce.

This will show a menu with several options. In this menu, click on the option of Do not recommend this channel If you want the videos of this specific channel in the recommendations not to appear. Then you can click on I’m not interested If what you want not to appear is the theme of the video.

This will not block the channel or theme on your YouTube, it will simply make the section of Start Do not appear in the recommendations. But as we have told you at the beginning, in searches the channel and video will continue to appear, as well as if you enter from a link. You will not have blocked it.

Deactivate all recommendations

You can also do that the page Start appear blank and without recommendationsso that you do not have to deal with training the algorithm because you no longer have it. It is a fairly radical option, but that in some contexts may serve you.

To do this, you have to click on your profile photo on YouTube, and click on the option of Your data on YouTube. You will go to a screen where you can control your entire display history, and here you can deactivate the option of YouTube history. Now, in the section Start Nothing will appear anymore.

Hides a user on your channel

The only type of block you can do is Hide a user on your channel. This has nothing to do with its content, but with the comments that may be leaving you and do not want them to appear.

To do this, you have to enter the profile of the account you want to block in this way. In it, click on the option of Report user. When you do several options, and you must Press where it puts Hide user on my channel That will appear.

This will erase all the comments that this user has left in your videos, and block future comments that he can leave in them. It will be as if this user could not interact more with you.

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