It's not directly available in search but from the home page you can click the triple dot menu and click Don't recommend channel.

That doesn't remove a channel from search unfortunately.

I don’t even think it blocks the channel long term from your recommendations. I’m pretty sure they’ve tried to sneak in an old channel I’ve explicitly said not to recommend again in my recommendations via whatever multi armed bandit with noise algo they’re running.

I ended up adding more and more ublock origin block entries for each channel I REALLY want to avoid.

BlockTube removes videos based on words in titles and channel names: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocktube/

Don't want to give another extension access to read my screen though. Why do extensions require such broad access? Can't think of this needing anything outside the YouTube domain

> Can't think of this needing anything outside the YouTube domain

Doesn't appear to given the permissions listed:

"Access your data for www.youtube.com"

For firefox users:

Extension [1] gives a little 'X' beside the channel name in home and search, that can be used to completely remove that channel from all future searches.

Similarly, remove a bunch of random distracting crap[2] such as 'related results'.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-clean...

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

I just checked this works -"channel name" (it only works if the channel name is in quotes)

I'll have to try it, I need it on the mobile app.

Being able to subscribe to specific playlists and keep specific playlists from your subscriptions would be wondrous. There's a ton of channels I'd like to subscribe to but they just pollute my Subscriptions page too much.

You can add a playlist to your library and it will show up in the Playlists section. Navigate to the playlist and look for an icon with throw horizontal lines and a check mark.