This is not true. You can in fact block specific channels. From YouTube support[1]: > On certain pages, such as your Home and Watch Next pages, find a video from a channel that you don’t want recommended to you.

> Click More next to the video title.

> Select Don't recommend channel .

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839?hl=en

This is also not true and hasn't been so for years. One can set a preference to "not recommend", but one can not explicitly block any channel.

Depending on your particular "preference constellation's weights" (over which you have no direct control), you can, in fact, be shown videos from that channel again.

Or they just launch another channel. I've had to block about a dozen channels by that bald bearded guy with the glasses.

The one with the really high quality crystal methamphetamine?

I actually liked him before he got gakked on the sauce.

VS__ce?

You can block from recommendations but there's either a fixed length with the oldest bumped off or it resets. I have to reblock stuff all the time.

I, too, believe anything Google says and deny the evidence in front of my eyes.

And the community posts and polls from random communities you have no interest in and don’t give you the same “don’t show me content from this channel”

this is a filter im using that blocks a channel from showing in the search results. just add a channel name after "title"

  www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer:has(#text.ytd-channel-name:is([title*="add ai slop channel name here"], [title*="more ai slop here"]))  
  

youll have to have to repeat the same name with other filters to also hide them on the homepage or the suggestions sidebar.

freetube is another option that works on desktop and it lets you block a channel by name by adding it in the "distraction free" section of the settings. if youre on android theres also a version of freetube in the f-droid store that works ok enough, even thought the freetube UI is not really designed for mobile

obviously this only gets you so far. at some point there could be more slop than non-slop so it wont be possible to block them all, but so far im finding this useful for the few repeat offenders that keep showing up in the search results*