Fixes the YouTube™ algorithm to remove mainstream media results from searches.
A browser extension to remove Mainstream Media results from YouTube™ searches.
Click to open the De-Mainstream popup next to your browser url then select what channels you want to hide.
Navigate to YouTube.com, type in a search and the channels that you have selected to hide will not display in your search results.
You can now right click on a YouTube™ in a search page and select "Block" or "Unblock" to add your own custom channels to the block list.
For more information: https://demainstream.com
Latest reviews
- (2023-08-21) null watcher: Heeey guys the repo is in here: https://github.com/miscavage/De-Mainstream-YouTube-Extension pls help contribute if you know how to code
- (2023-02-21) Orlando Moreno: It doesn't work. Not on custom-added channels, but not even those in the built-in list.
- (2022-09-05) Zahra Brown: It was great. Now it doesn't work anymore.
- (2022-05-23) Edsknife: I remember it working before, but it wasn't working today; searched "Ukraine" and all the results were mainstream. I've always slowly lost functions of the extensions I use; there has to be a better way. Could probably do it better without the Chrome Web Store. Might have better luck on Itch.
- (2022-04-19) hippo potamus: Tried to add manual channels and it does NOT work. Why do you have local fox channels on the list but not the main fox news official checked marked channel?????? !!!! I manually add it and it STILL shows up, worthless not sure if Im going to keep this extension.
- (2022-02-27) Darwin de Guzman: Doesn't work for me
- (2022-02-27) Tim: Recently stopped working. Please fix this. I am tired of being bombarded by garbage propaganda.
- (2022-02-23) USA 2020: Seems to have stopped working :/
- (2022-02-22) mark stockton: YouTube broke this somehow, good effort, was nice while it lasted...
- (2022-02-09) Ross Vassev: Doesn't work. Still getting MSM in my YouTube sidefeed.
- (2022-02-05) Barry Williams: This no longer works. I've noticed it stopped filtering mainstream search results since sometime late January 2022. Was disappointed to see all the propaganda and other mindless garbage return. This was a phenomenal extension up until now... hope they fix it.
- (2022-01-31) Impetus: stopped working
- (2022-01-30) J Barron: Originally loved this, but appears not to work any more?
- (2022-01-17) Robert Matsumura: I don't ever write reviews but my god, this extension is divine! I had to come and make my first extension review to rant about how amazing seamless this program works! If you're sick of mainstream propaganda showing up on your feed no matter how many times you click "do not recommend channel" or report for spam/sexual harassment and they keep showing up on your feed. this is the extension you've been looking for all your life. Just install it, don't even think about, DO IT!
- (2021-12-14) Kallan Welsh: Not perfect but I love that this exists. Makes a big difference.
- (2021-12-01) Beliserius1: works great and doesn't have long delays like manually blocking a channel would.
- (2021-11-22) John Doe: me likey
- (2021-11-21) no no: I like it it work very well but needs a update badly PLZ PLZ UPDATE THIS
- (2021-11-18) godless: Great idea, sadly it isn't blocking *anything* on the list. I have all selected, and get multiple vid suggestions from ABC, NBC, CNN, etc. It's filtering nothing. Unfortunate.
- (2021-11-01) bowl hat: working perfectly fine but anyway i try to block a channel it wont be blocked and still there i right clicked blocked on the list and single channel and it's right there the copypasted name on it but does not work spaces on the channel or not
- (2021-10-06) Paisano: Broken non working abandonware, last update was march 2020, the developer website is down and is no longer responding to emails. just uninstall and use blocktube extension instead.
- (2021-09-14) Aleksandar Kostic: Used to be 5 stars, but it seems like it is no longer working for me. I noticed today my suggestions were full of the mainstream news channels I am trying to avoid. When I checked the extension I saw that the site was down. Are there any updates?
- (2021-08-19) Karol Pastuszek: Cannot add new channels on Brave.
- (2021-07-19) Joey Bradfield: One thing I would do is rename it to "Corporate Press Hider" as the channels being hidden do not represent the Mainstream view, but the view of the corporate press.
- (2021-07-12) Lana Papic: it's not working plz fix it
- (2021-07-10) Wannalov you: I love it.
- (2021-04-26) Johannes Johansson: I am using Brave and it doesnt work at all. I'd say I keep getting MORE recommended mainstream media hits since I started using this, not only that but adding new channels to the list doesn't work either. I guess it worked for others, but definitely doesn't work for me
- (2021-04-21) Lana Deldark: It works greaty on duckduck and chrome but on brave I get annoying msm in result as first ones.please fix it.
- (2021-03-30) CharlieBrown: Its stopped working on brave
- (2021-03-28) Michael Maus: Works well for all the pre-installed channels they block but I cannot block channels I add to the database. Needs work, but it's still essential in the fake news era.
- (2021-03-24) Daring Tiger: It works amazing, search results are so much better using this than without. The one problem is that it won't block any new channels you want to add even after putting in the channel id and channel name in, even though it says you can, which sucks because there's still a good amount of promoted trash channels that I'd like to block, but overall this is a great extension to make youtube search searchable again Edit: apperantly you can block new channels but for some channels it doesn't work some channels it does. Still great extension
- (2021-03-16) TheGoldenOcean: I love this, no more CNN no more BBC no more propaganda banging ideas into my head. I wish there was a one for google searches.
- (2021-03-15) Argyle Smiths: clean simple app that works. if you want to defund pedophiles, this extension will help defund the ones that dont run youtube.
- (2021-02-09) Raven Cole: Works as expected. It's a good start to getting the main garbage out of the way. The real results come after manually adding all the other channels you don't want to see.
- (2021-02-09) Dougie Fuoco: not working for me
- (2021-02-09) Totoro -san: Perfect. No more garbage in my feed
- (2021-01-31) Hedean: Love it. It hides all that insufferable amount of old media channels in yt homepage and searches. I wish it could block more efficiently as some blocked channels do appear sometimes.
- (2021-01-21) Ray Q: The "Daily Popular Videos" button does not show up. I am using macos.
- (2020-12-20) curb scout: Off with MSM: doesn't catch them all, but does fine job.
- (2020-12-10) Thomas Weber: Beste Erweiterung seit Jahren !!!!
- (2020-12-01) Devon Gibbons: For Edge browser 11/30/20 it does not allow you to add new channels to hide. The right-click add option does not appear and the menu is cropped without a way of viewing it all to interact with the extension fully.
- (2020-11-18) Mitchur Yagami: I refuse to consume propaganda. This blocks out a large majority of the propaganda youtube attempts to push on you to normalize their view points. Thanks demainstream! just need to work on stopping them from appearing in 'up next' videos. I'll give 5 star anyways.
- (2020-11-10) Carter Mecham: Excellent extension
- (2020-11-10) Dovahkiin: Truly the savior of YT, an ext that battle against the faceless billionaire cooperations. 🤩
- (2020-11-02) TheRabbitFear: Needs to filter out official government channels, university channels and the UN and WHO but otherwise works great
- (2020-11-01) Igal Neshto: WOW. Just WOW! How have I not heard about this before?! This is a life changer!!! Thanks for uncluttering my youtube!
- (2020-10-22) a: I like to test chrome extensions. It mostly worked 3-4 stars on that, but it's kind of harmful to provide an echo chamber app to the public. It's always healthy to see people who disagree with you so you can verify that your beliefs are true. No matter what they are. I imagine cults will start making these too, if they haven't already.
- (2020-10-20) Michael Sebastian: Such an amazing extension. Brings YouTube back to what it once was. Content from independent creators and not curated garbage from corporate board rooms.
- (2020-08-27) J Barron: Such a fantastic idea. So wonderful to actually see independent content on the sidebar for once. Only gave four stars because unfortunately James Cordon is still there.
- (2020-08-19) James deGuzman: It worked for a while despite how long it had been since an update, but recently MSM stuff has been able to make it through my search results and my front page. Both passively in the form of recommendations in both my front page and sidebar, and actively when I directly look for channels that SHOULD be blocked via the search results bar. This will need to be rectified before I am able to recommend this extension to other people. As of writing this, the last update on this was in March; it is now mid-August, and the extension is nonfunctional at the moment. Edit: Immediately after posting this review, I tried installing a couple more privacy extensions, and I noticed that my frontpage had gone back to how it was when Demainstream worked. Tried searching up a few of the Mainstream channels that should be blocked, and sure enough they were. I still don't know what happened to make it work again.
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Installs
10,000
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Rating
4.1745 (149 votes)
Last update / version
2020-03-28 / 1.0.5
Listing languages
en