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Crossing Eden · Feb 27, 2017

I was just reading the Horizon OT and it seems there are spoilers on the horizon.

badumtiss.

But seriously there are gaming channels specifically dedicated to spoiling important moments in games with titles and thumbnails. Even worse is that youtube recommends users these channels thanks to their recommendation algorithm when you search for specific games as these channels are quite popular. Channels such as Generic Gaming. Well we have a solution. And it's called video blocker. With these simple add on you can add a channel's name and no longer will that channel show up in any of the following
-search results
-recommendations
-side bars
-even when you search specifically for them

It's as easy as going to their channel and manually adding their name to the add list. That's not all, you can also add keywords, like *insert name of game spoilers*

List of channels known for posting spoilers on new releases:
-Beastgaming
-Calloftreyarch
-Generic Gaming

beware the spoilers as you're adding them, which you do in the following way

Crossing Eden said:
You have to directly go to their channel and highlight their name and copy it into the "Add" option next to search

If you do it that way the extension should automatically redirect you to youtube's homepage, that's how you know it worked.

Polygonal_Sprite · Feb 27, 2017

Very useful, thanks.

Dangansona · Feb 27, 2017

This will be big for Visual Novels.

I'm sure there are also extensions for hiding the recommendations section of YouTube altogether.

TheGamingBox · Feb 27, 2017

does it block videos from subs?

edit: apparently it does

Griss · Feb 27, 2017

That's a great idea. Someone should keep a list of channels to add so that each user doesn't have to discover them themselves by being spoiled.

jediyoshi · Feb 27, 2017

I'm a dummy, what's the difference between adding a wildcard and keyword?

edit: looks like keyword is the one I want in any case

Crossing Eden · Feb 27, 2017

Griss said:
That's a great idea. Someone should keep a list of channels to add so that each user doesn't have to discover them themselves by being spoiled.

Added a primary list of well known spoiler channels.

bobawesome · Feb 27, 2017

I can play Muv-Luv in peace at last.

Twilight Princess · Feb 27, 2017

But will it surprise me?

Haremquest · Feb 27, 2017

I right clicked the channel and added it to the list but I can still find it when I directly search it? Is that how it works?

TheStruggler · Feb 27, 2017

such a pet peeve sometimes in the recommendation sections they have a spoiler thumbnail lik wtf are you thinking, some youtubers are god damn morons

EDIT: TheRadBrad, sometimes uses spoiler thumbnails, add that to list

Crossing Eden · Feb 27, 2017

Haremquest said:
I right clicked the channel and added it to the list but I can still find it when I directly search it? Is that how it works?

You have to directly go to their channel and highlight their name.

jediyoshi · Feb 27, 2017

Haremquest said:
I right clicked the channel and added it to the list but I can still find it when I directly search it? Is that how it works?

It shouldn't. If you're blocking a channel through the right click/context menu, it should be gone entirely.

It looks like there's a bug with adding channels through the extension's options directly though, it doesn't work for me.

Crossing Eden said:
You have to directly go to their channel and highlight their name.

Right clicking on any video from a channel is enough to bring up the option, even just through search results.

Andrefpvs · Feb 27, 2017

Here's a few keywords I blocked that others may want to block as well:

Any other danger words anyone can suggest?

Crossing Eden · Feb 27, 2017

jediyoshi said:
It shouldn't. If you're blocking a channel through the right click/context menu, it should be gone entirely.

It looks like there's a bug with adding channels through the extension's options directly though, it doesn't work for me.

Right clicking on any video from a channel is enough to bring up the option.

That's how you do it directly. If you do it that way the extension should automatically redirect you to youtube's homepage, that's how you know it worked, and the channel will no longer show up in any of the things I listed in the OP.

ElFly · Feb 27, 2017

Andrefpvs said:
Here's a few keywords I blocked that others may want to block as well:

Any other danger words anyone can suggest?

react

jediyoshi · Feb 27, 2017

Crossing Eden said:
That's how you do it directly. If you do it that way the extension should automatically redirect you to youtube's homepage, that's how you know it worked.

It also strips the channel from the channels section of search results which is quicker to check if you're going down a large list of them at a time. The point was that there's nothing unique between the actions, it treats all links regarding a channel the same contextually in function.

GuardianE · Feb 27, 2017

I'll definitely look into this. It's become more and more prevalent and obnoxious lately.

Haremquest · Feb 27, 2017

Crossing Eden said:
That's how you do it directly. If you do it that way the extension should automatically redirect you to youtube's homepage, that's how you know it worked, and the channel will no longer show up in any of the things I listed in the OP.

Anytime I click to add it I don't get redirected at all.

Crossing Eden · Feb 27, 2017

jediyoshi said:
It also strips the channel from the channels section of search results which is quicker to check if you're going down a large list of them at a time. The point was that there's nothing unique between the actions, it treats all links regarding a channel the same contextually in function.

Huh? Guess I never tried it that way.

Haremquest said:
Anytime I click to add it I don't get redirected at all.

Are you copy and pasting the channel name in the banner directly into add?

Piccoro · Feb 27, 2017

If only there were these kinds of extensions for the Consoles/Android YouTube app.

Haremquest · Feb 27, 2017

Crossing Eden said:
Huh? Guess I never tried it that way.

Are you copy and pasting the channel name in the banner directly into add?

Yup and I even right click it as well, nothing.

Wagram · Feb 27, 2017

Can you make it so it filters the videos in the recommendations, etc, but keeps it if you manually type in content.

For example, say I wanted to filter Star Ocean 3, but if I typed in Star Ocean 3 could I still see it?

Luminaire · Feb 27, 2017

I've been using this to block any channel that had REACTS on it. They're one of my most hated trends.

To add to the list above: revealed

Inspectah_Deck · Feb 27, 2017

Any recommendation for Firefox users?
The FF version of the addon has not so good ratings ("slows everything down").

Crossing Eden · Feb 27, 2017

Haremquest said:
Yup and I even right click it as well, nothing.

Huh, that's really weird. :/

Andrefpvs · Feb 27, 2017

ElFly said:
react

Trulyworth said:

I've been using this to block any channel that had REACTS on it. They're one of my most hated trends.

To add to the list above: revealed

Click to expand...

Thanks. Keep suggesting spoilery channels and keywords, then I'll export my list into a file everyone can just import into their Video Blocker.

Capra · Feb 27, 2017

Inspectah_Deck said:
Any recommendation for Firefox users?
The FF version of the addon has not so good ratings ("slows everything down").

I would like to know this as well.

I'm pretty sure I've already had the

/every

final boss of NieR Automata spoiled for me by Youtube recommendations.

Crossing Eden · Feb 27, 2017

Inspectah_Deck said:
Any recommendation for Firefox users?
The FF version of the addon has not so good ratings ("slows everything down").

Nada.

MrBadger said:
"I see you watched a review of this brand new game. Here's a video thumbnail that spoils the final boss!"

-Youtube

Literally tho.

MrBadger · Feb 27, 2017

"I see you watched a review of this brand new game. Here's a video thumbnail that spoils the final boss!"

-Youtube

aravuus · Feb 27, 2017

Oh wow, the keyword filtering is great. Added Horizon and Nier there and some random words like ending and twist. I was hoping for something that'd white out all thumbnails by default, but this is much better.

All that said, it's not like I've spent a lot of time on Youtube lately though. Mainly just watching RLM videos, and the sidebars just filled with more RLM videos with those.

RedToad64 · Feb 27, 2017

I wonder if someone could make an extension that hides thumbnails until you move your cursor over them.

Wagram · Feb 27, 2017

It straight up blocks them, but you can disable it if you wish to do a manual search. I can be on youtube without fear of Nier spoilers!

Ricitor · Feb 27, 2017

Fantastic extension. Have been using it for about over a year or two now. Only reason I got it was to remove all that hateful GG bullshit that kept flogging my home page on YouTube. Best thing that ever happened.
Along with the Hide YouTube Comments extension, it fucking has made YouTube a much nicer place for me.

Lamptramp · Feb 27, 2017

Although not particularly sensitive to spoilers I can see this being a boon if only for the other reasons listed above, cheers for the suggestion.

Trulyworth said:
I've been using this to block any channel that had REACTS on it. They're one of my most hated trends.

To add to the list above: revealed

Such as this

Wagram · Feb 27, 2017

Thanks OP. I've been looking for something like this for some time. Nothing more frustrating than someone spoiling especially in unreleased games.

jxN3 · Feb 27, 2017

Awesome, just installed it.

Anybody know of an addon that can blackout keywords on forums?

Inspectah_Deck · Feb 27, 2017

The Firefox version seems to work well too for me.
I didn´t even have to go to the channel site, I just had to add the channel via the video blocker symbol.

Another channel for the list:
BestVideoMoments

It annoyed the fuck out of me the last days with constant Zelda spoilers.

woopWOOP · Feb 27, 2017

Woah, this sounds wonderful

Thanks for the heads up!

Crossing Eden · Feb 27, 2017

Ricitor said:
Fantastic extension. Have been using it for about over a year or two now. Only reason I got it was to remove all that hateful GG bullshit that kept flogging my home page on YouTube. Best thing that ever happened.
Along with the Hide YouTube Comments extension, it fucking has made YouTube a much nicer place for me.

It's absolutely great for blocking GG/white supremacists channels.

chronos4590 · Feb 27, 2017

Thanks! Is there a Safari equivalent? And I see there is a fire fox version

Justinh · Feb 27, 2017

Thanks!

I never knew such a thing existed. Just installed the Firefox version. I'm not one that's usually bothered by spoilers, but I hate seeing recommendations for stuff I really don't like (react, watchmojo, etc...)

seems to be case-sensitive...

Inspectah_Deck · Feb 27, 2017

Justinh said:
Thanks!

I never knew such a thing existed. Just installed the Firefox version. I'm not one that's usually bothered by spoilers, but I hate seeing recommendations for stuff I really don't like (react, watchmojo, etc...)

seems to be case-sensitive...

Are you sure?
I have Zelda written in lowercase and it blocks everything.

a916 · Feb 27, 2017

MrBadger said:
"I see you watched a review of this brand new game. Here's a video thumbnail that spoils the final boss!"

-Youtube

Oh man, IGN used to do that so often... "here's our review when the emargo lifts, enjoy folks."

... game releases...

"Games been out for 2 minutes? Here's the final boss and the 100% ending and massive thumbnails fam"

Wireframe · Feb 27, 2017

I'd like to add Boss Fight Database to that list of youtube channels for ruining the true boss of Nier: Automata yesterday on me.

Honestly if I'm getting near release of a game i've been following I find it's better to just clear my watch and search history on youtube as it'll reset the algorithm.

Justinh · Feb 27, 2017

Inspectah_Deck said:
Are you sure?
I have Zelda written in lowercase and it blocks everything.

hmmm, maybe I'm mistaken....

All I know is that it wouldn't block channels unless I had the correct letters capitalized.

Andrefpvs · Feb 28, 2017

Andrefpvs said:
Thanks. Keep suggesting spoilery channels and keywords, then I'll export my list into a file everyone can just import into their Video Blocker.

Okay, so. Going by the suggestions in this thread, here's a quick beginner's block list with some channels and dangerous keywords:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14599856/Video Blocker (27 keys 2_28_2017).json

To import to the extension, download the file, then go to Video Blocker - Controls -> Import.

tsundoku · Feb 28, 2017

ALL CUTSCENES HD
and
ALL ENDINGS HD
is probably the best keyword

Duraigo · Feb 28, 2017

Definitely wish I had this a week or two ago. Been holding out on RE7, and I already know what the final boss looks like thanks to videos suggestions on the side.

Musolf815 · Feb 28, 2017

Thank you. I've had a huge problem with this for a while, I had a ton spoiled about MGSV from the "BIG SCENE IN TITLE" videos.

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