YouTube Blocker

Block non educational YouTube videos

YouTube Blocker - Block non educational videos

YouTube Blocker is a Chrome extension that blocks YouTube videos not in the Education, Science & Technology, or Howto & Style categories, allowing you to focus on watching educational videos. YouTube Blocker is not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Google Inc. Please feel free to fork the repo or make pull requests for improvements and bug fixes.

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By: Eric

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.33

(27)

Version: 4.1 (Last updated: 2024-05-27)

Creation date: 2020-06-18

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

notifications
storage
background
tabs
webNavigation

Host permissions:

*://*.youtube.com/*

Size: 243.71K

Email: ab*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 8,461 ▲ 45

Other rankings

#11097 in Workflow & Planning #30 in trademark keyword 13 ▲ 10 #38 in education keyword 83 ▲ 2 #189 in youtube keyword 95 ▼ 19

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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YouTube Blocker blocks YouTube videos not in the Education, Science & Technology, or Howto & Style categories so you can focus on watching educational videos.

YouTube™️ is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions. YouTube Blocker is not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Google Inc.

https://github.com/eric60/YouTube-Blocker Please feel free to fork this repo or make pull requests for improvements and bug fixes

Releases https://github.com/eric60/YouTube-Blocker/releases

User reviews

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Pros

Sophisticated site blocking compared to other extensions
Helps improve focus by reducing distraction from non-educational videos
Detailed setup instructions for Google Cloud account
Capable of blocking non-educational content effectively

Cons

Difficult to follow installation instructions
Currently blocks music content which some users want to include
Doesn't allow users to customize which categories to block
Redirects to homepage instead of hiding unwanted videos

Most mentioned

Difficulty with installation instructions
Request for feature to include/block music
Desire for more control over what content to block
Issue with non-educational video blocking behavior

User reviews

This is more sophisticated than other site blocking extensions. I had mixed feeling about YouTube because it can provide valuable learning content besides entertainment. It's smart that it uses the YouTube data API to understand the data. The instruction of setting up Google Cloud account is very thorough. It provides useful tips to set up the right API key. I hope it disables YouTube shorts too.

Zero Liu, 2024-12-31

It's great! but can you add an option so it doesn't block youtube music?

Jajo Schroeder (PotatoDev), 2024-08-16

It is really good returning YouTube homepage for the extension if it detected as non-educational. The instructions was a challenge to set up when figure where is where in the set up guide. Only issue that I am currently seeing is the non-educational videos is still there and tolerate it if I chose it wrong as I would like to see the page without the non-educational or highlighting the video thumbnail non-educational so that we can choose videos that we can watch from main page or search bar.