feat(YouTube): Block videos by channel name or video title keywords

[gjgok]

Application

YouTube revanced

Issue

Inability to hide videos from specific channels and specific keywords.

Patch

I would like to add the ability to hide videos with specific channels or specific words in the search results or recommendations section and home.

Motivation

To enable users to search for content that they like more.

Acknowledgements

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[caicaicaicaicaicaicaicai]

The title of this request is pretty confusing, but if I'm understanding it correctly I have the same request, which is essentially to implement the functionality of Blocktube, a browser extension that (among other things) allows you to block content from appearing in your recommendations by blacklisting certain keywords. I'd love to be able to block reaction videos and other low-effort content from my recommendations, and YouTube's "not interested"/"don't recommend channel" buttons are inadequate for this purpose

[dmitrybabich]

This would be really nice to have. I want to allow my kids to watch educational videos, but block everything related to gaming, for example. Is it technically possible to add this functionality to block by specific keyword like "Fortnite" or specific channel name?

[sunnyd24]

It would be great to have whitelist functionality. i.e. Only allow search results or browse videos/channels from specific 'channels' or 'keywords' that appear in whitelist.

[spectrolit]

It would be wonderful if it were possible to apply these settings globally for a certain device regardless of the Google account with which it is connected so that it would be possible to use it even without connecting to a YouTube channel

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

This is now possible using custom filter. See the syntax and examples in https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/pull/2682

Implementing a dedicated patch just for search/home feed content filtering could be a lot easier to use than custom filter, but it would need consideration on how to present the UI (filter just home feed? Filter search? Hide shorts or regular videos? One list of phrases for everything or individual lists for each type of video? Etc etc).

[dmitrybabich]

Thanks for the update @LisoUseInAIKyrios!

Is it possible to provide a bit more details how to apply the custom filter? Should I use revanced manager?

Implementing a dedicated patch just for search/home feed content filtering could be a lot easier to use than custom filter

Is there a tutorial on how I can implement a custom patch? I am a developer, but never worked with android apps. If it's not too time consuming I am ready to invest time into learning how to do this custom patching.

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

Check https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-documentation?tab=readme-ov-file

And https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/blob/docs/docs/README.md To get started.

Making this a patch would be really simple, but the time would be figuring out a UI design that is easy to understand and use.

I suppose the simplest (and least likely to cause performance issues), is a single text preference for the phrases to hide, and switches to apply that filter to the home feed / search / shorts recommendations. And maybe one more UI switch to use commonly found capitalization patterns (so entering mr beast automatically also hides Mr Beast and MR BEAST).

Hiding content in the feed/search leaves behind residue of hidden videos that cannot be hidden, such as the chapter preview for a search result video. A limitation of making this into a patch, but it would still be easier to use than custom filter (which is raw and requires reading guides to figure out).