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Re:Show HN: BlockTube - YouTube content blocker by Rotdhizon on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:06PM (#17206699)
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.
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Re:Show HN: BlockTube - YouTube content blocker by roryisok on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:16PM (#17206831)
"destroys trump", "Reaction", "surprise egg"
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Re:Show HN: BlockTube - YouTube content blocker by WorldMaker on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:23PM (#17206935)
"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.

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Re:Show HN: BlockTube - YouTube content blocker by amitbl on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:25PM (#17208448)
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

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Re:Show HN: BlockTube - YouTube content blocker by WorldMaker on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:42PM (#17209322)
Similarly, things like: /^Top \d+/, /^Best \d+/, /^Worst \d+/, /\d+ Things You (May|May Have)? Miss(ed)?/
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Re:Show HN: BlockTube - YouTube content blocker by amitbl on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:20PM (#17208399)
You can do that very easily, and also use raw regex for more flexibility
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