What is YTBlock - Block any content from YouTube™?
Video Blocker for YouTube™ is a Chrome extension empowering the user with an ability to curtail unwanted YouTube content. From videos, comments to any mention of certain phrases or words, the extension meticulously blocks them as per user's requirements. Users can even block content by identifying particular tags, categories or descriptions, offering a customized YouTube browsing experience. To facilitate tag-blocking, it integrates with a Google API Key, with how-to instructions available within the extension.
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With this extension you can block any type of content in Youtube™.
Features:
• block channel, videos, posts, playlists and comments.
• you can block videos that the title match words or phrases of your choice (regex supported).
• block comments that contain certain phrases or words (regex supported).
• block videos by link, ID, tags*, description* and categories*.
• block shorts, mixes, premiere, live videos.
• and many more!
Note:
A Google API key is necessary to get information that are not visible in the YouTube™ page about videos and channels, such as tags, categories and descriptions. Within the extension there's instructions on how to get one.
User reviews
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Pros
Effectively blocks unwanted content from YouTube recommendations
Allows users to block specific videos and channels
Prompt response and fix from the author for issues
Cons
Causes high CPU and memory usage
Issues with blocking channels and comments sections
Slow performance and memory leak in browser
Most mentioned
Issues with CPU and memory usage
Not working for blocking channels and comments
Effectively blocks unwanted YouTube content
Recent reviews
Since the last update it became slow, youtube is so slow and starts to eat ram. fix it!
When this extension is installed, Edge continues to reserve memory for its processes if the browser is closed, an apparent memory leak.
After double-checking that "Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed" was turned off (which it always is for me), I tried closing Edge. Task Manager showed Edge processes still running, with memory still allocated to them. I uninstalled the extension, then tried closing Edge again. Without this extension installed, Edge shut down promptly and cleanly with no memory allocated to its processes, just as it usually does for me. The extension being uninstalled was the only changed factor, so the extension almost certainly caused the issue.
I had this at 3 stars previously, with the review as follows: "Beware: this works where other extensions don't but at an extreme cost to browser performance." Unfortunately, it seems that it's a bit worse than that. I couldn't see anything purposely malicious happening, but I hope this extension is updated soon to address the issue, as a memory leak is no joke.
YTBlock - Block any content from YouTube™ may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution
when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.
Risk likelihood
YTBlock - Block any content from YouTube™ has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.