An Extension I developed to combat today's YouTube "quality" content.

You can easily block videos, channels and comments based on your own rule-set.

The block is 100% site wide, an unsuspecting user wouldn't know it's enabled, unless they're actively looking for a specific blocked video.

It's still an initial version, but there shouldn't be any issues. Also, the options page is not quite visually impressive, but functional. (A better one will come sometime)

This is a must have if you have little children browsing the site with no supervision.

It's compatible with Firefox 52+(ESR) & Chrome

I've been complaining a lot about YouTube's "recommendations" lately so this sounds like a good idea. I may try to see how much work it is to convert to an Edge extension.

That's sound great, it shouldn't be too much work I guess, because the chrome API usage here is pretty minimal

Thank you for making the functionality to block channels, that is something that I've found wanting more and more recently due to autoplay.

Very interesting, i will try it :)

Honestly if it can block anything with the words/phrases "Fortnite, PUBG, Must Watch, new, World Record, Never Before Seen, and similar topics then it is a winner in my book.

"destroys trump", "Reaction", "surprise egg"

"Reaction" is a big one. I wonder if the beginning of the wasteland was YouTube trying to make "Reaction" videos a thing by directly encouraging that nonsense.

"vlog" is another word that seemed like a good idea at the time but seems to have degenerated into near uselessness as a marker of content.

In my opinion, a good indicator of pro "content creator" video is usually all capital letters/multiple question&exclamation marks in the title.

You can setup this matching quite easily with regex

Similarly, things like: /^Top \d+/, /^Best \d+/, /^Worst \d+/, /\d+ Things You (May|May Have)? Miss(ed)?/

You can do that very easily, and also use raw regex for more flexibility

It would be good if you could combine this with some OCR/computer vision to automatically detect and block click bait thumbnails like with a red circle, or proeminent boobs, or similar.

It does sounds like a great idea, but would require setting up a remote service which I'm not ready to maintain at this time

Not ready to be paid to find boobs

I'd actually love to see this work at the router level so it can filter stuff from my iPad

Unfortunately, probably won't ever be possible because of TLS encrypted connection to YouTube (unless you can install custom root CA on apple devices??)