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How to block a video on YouTube

YouTube's own option is "Not interested" in a video's ⋮ menu. It takes that video out of your recommendations, and the video still comes up when you search. To keep one video off Home, search and Up next, you need a blocker.

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Press Hide video on any card. Only that video goes, and the notice that pops up lets you undo it. Block channel on the same card removes every video from that channel.

Made-up channels and videos. The rules behave the way they do in the extension.

Showing all 6 items. Nothing is hidden yet.

14:02

Filling my sister's garage with 5,000 paper planes

Stunt Goblins

27:41

I spent a whole night inside a furniture store

Graveyard Shift

11:55

Rubber snake prank on my dad (he jumped)

Stunt Goblins

18:40

Reacting to the weirdest gadget ever sold

Hot Take Hour

16:08

Season finale spoiler talk: who really won?

Couch Critics

22:17

The 12-layer sandwich challenge (ASMR edition)

Snack Titans

What YouTube gives you

To make one video disappear from your own YouTube, the extension adds a Hide video button to each card. If you already have a few links saved, tidy them up below.

Video list builder

Paste YouTube video links in any format: watch, youtu.be, Shorts or embed. Put them one per line, or separate them with spaces or commas. You get one standard watch link per video, with duplicates removed. Copy the list to import into the extension later. Nothing leaves your browser.

Video links

Your video list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1B2c3D4e5F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq7Lm2Pz9Rt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Vn8Wd0HsY

3 videos · 1 duplicate removed

How the extension hides a video

1
Every video card on YouTube gets a small Hide video button.
The Hide video button on a video card (made-up video).
2
Press it once. That video leaves Home, search results and Up next, and it stays hidden.
3
If you hide the wrong one, press Undo in the notice, or remove the video from your list later.
The notice after hiding a video, with Undo.
4
Your list is stored in your browser, with no account. You can export it and import it, including a list made with the builder above.
The list of hidden videos, with Export and Import (made-up links).
5
With a PIN set, showing a hidden video again asks for the PIN first.
With a PIN set, the panel asks for it before a hidden video shows again.

When a whole channel keeps showing up, block the channel instead. If you want YouTube to stop opening on this computer at all, see how to block YouTube on a computer. Channels, words, Shorts and recommendations are on the YT Block home page.

Questions about hiding videos

Can I hide a video from my kid?

On a shared computer in Chrome, yes: hide the video and set a PIN. A PIN slows people down, and a determined kid can still get around it, so this isn't full parental control. If your child has a YouTube Kids or supervised account, use the controls YouTube built for those accounts (YouTube Kids Help).

What happens if someone opens the video from a direct link?

The extension hides video cards, so a direct link can still open the video. To close off YouTube completely in this browser, the extension has a separate Block all of YouTube switch. To block it in every browser on the computer, use the hosts file method.

How many videos can I hide?

Many. The list is made to keep growing, so you can add videos as they come up. If you already have a long set of links, run them through the builder above to drop the duplicates first.

Hide one video and keep the rest of the channel

The extension adds a Hide video button to every video card.

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