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BlockTube

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CRX ID
bbeaicapbccfllodepmimpkgecanonai
Status
  • Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta

YouTube™ content blocker

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BlockTube
Description from store

BlockTube gives you the control to customize your YouTube viewing experience. It allows you to block specific channels and videos that you don't wish to see or get recommended with.
The extension is lightweight and fast, integrated seamlessly and does not affect your browsing experience at all, to an extent that an unsuspecting user will never know it's there to begin with.

** The extension includes the following features

* Integrated context menus across YouTube for easy blocking
* Block videos by name
* Block channels by name
* Block comments from specific user or by content keywords
* Block/Allow videos with specific runtime
* Block YouTube Shorts
* Block YouTube Movies
* Block Explore page
* Block YouTube's auto generated playlists
* Hide watched videos from recommendations
* Remove "Video paused, continue watching?" popups

** For advanced users

* Regular Expressions are supported across all filter options
* Advanced Blocking: Extend the functionality on your own using a JavaScript function (https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube/wiki/Advanced-Blocking)
** WARNING ** DO NOT PASTE UNTRUSTED CODE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, YOUR YOUTUBE ACCOUNT MAY BE AT RISK IF YOU DO SO

PRIVACY NOTICE:
I do not collect any information or data on you.
This extension does not contain analytics/tracking codes.
This extension does not make even a single request to a 3rd party server.
The only data being recorded is your configured options which are saved locally
only on your computer.

SOURCE CODE AND BUG TRACKING:
https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube

FIREFOX VERSION:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocktube/

Latest reviews

Huynh Phi
It worked. Thanks.
Neeraj Bhatt
Even this one can NOT block ALL live streams off of my home page feed. Do these ext devs think about practicality? Would a viewer sit clicking each and every video off, no matter how powerful your extension was? Disappointed, dismayed. Uninstalling this and continuing with my search for that ONE extension which will block, no, REMOVE live streams off of my home page feeds.
rodrigo apaza
It worked, but after blocking multiple times the same an related channels and videos
David Hernandez
Simply perfect!
Philippe Ebersohl
Excellent, THE missing youtube feature !
U Ojha
Works
T D
Seems to mostly work again, although I use unhook now to remove the sidebar entirely as blocktube is a losing battle against "New to You" slop, it's great to be able to use the search again and not have the same channels showing up over and over.
Super Pieton
Does not even show the blocking option and makes other videos unwatchable (they simply not show up).
Jeffery “Jeffery” Fan
Thank you devs for fixing the extension :) work again now <3
Colby Kubicz
Fixed recent UI and blocking issues I was having, youtube is unusable without it so I am very grateful!
Oreste
They fixed the ongoing issues as of 9/15, great work devs.
Brittany Hollingsworth
it works sometimes?
LightBurn
trash. doesn't block in the recommendations. how about you implement 1 button that you can click on the recommendations list and on their video/channel that makes their channel disappear forever. how hard is that.
Gerry Fjæren
Blocking function doesnt work. I need to have a tool that blocks AI channels from my search results. Everytime I use this, and use the "Block Channel" function. The channel still shows up with videos further down the list. Even if I reset the search, the blocked channels still comes up. So, 0 stars from me.
anon nobody
trash
Paul S
I was using this so I didn't see videos completely unrelated to the video I am currently watching, but now it blatantly just doesn't work, as in, the videos still show despite the fact that I had settings that SHOULD be having them not be shown.
ReachTea
this isn't working anymore
Christopher Silva Morales
It’s broken at the moment: you can still block videos and channels (from the extension options), and although you won’t be able to play them, they still show up on the site. The context menu to block them is also missing.
IIIlllIIll IIIlllIIll
stops working after I scroll too far down
Priscent Snow
used to be great until it stopped working
Astrayo Star
No longer functional, seemingly abandoned by its contributors.
Klit Kardashian
stopped working. no option to actually block channels anymore
Rob Phelps
does not work in aug 2025
Jerry Buchanan
Worthless.
Silentbob515
If it doesn't block then it doesn't work and shouldn't be allowed on the web store, either get it fixed or remove it
A user
This was a great extension until it just stopped working. Please fix this.
Derek Hatake
Stop being Lazy and update the extension. It doesn't work anymore.
Susan Stevens
Stopped working a few days ago. When it's back up, I'll give it the five stars it deserves.
Clark Sebastian
this extension is work, but somehow it will make the thumbnail on each categories either explore, subscription, home and other goes blank or no thumbnail in certain area. hopefully with the next update, they will make the thumbnail tidier, not only hide or block it.
kkirby999
the addon no longer works properly. i'll change my review once this gets fixed.
Giggles
Please fix, it's the only thing that protects me from ai summary, vtuber slop and show clips, I don't even interact with them but youtube insists I need to see them. Save me.
ATL-pye
Doesn't work half the time
Per Larsen
stopped working for me.
AnnaChicky
unfortunately stopped working for me.
Jurassic Ark
Please just fix this addon so my youtube experience isn't a stressful nightmare for me!
Richard Martens
Brave browser update 1.80.125 broke the addon. I can only block channels in my subscription tab, the one place it's not needed.
Takeda Antonio
not working again, blocked channels appears and block buttons dissapeared on both chrome 138.0.7204.184 and firefox 141.0
Kreciq Klu
Not working anymore...
James Veddhartha
Works as written. Thank you so much.
ume chan
Blocking feature still works for channels but not on keywords. Blocked words started appearing in my home feed recently. Please fix 🙏🏻
John Doe
does not work properly anymore!
Seth Greschuk
I think it may be fixed soon, which is amazing! I used this daily until youtube died when I had it enabled.
Jordan
This has not been updated since December 9, 2024, so it won't work as I tried dozens of times. The blocked people come back idk how. who ever made this extension should update or most likely just ditch it. I found another YouTube block tool called YT Block. So, I'm going to use that instead. This extension has worked for a long time but if it's not going to work, I'm changing everything. Luckily the Blocked channels that was on this extension i can copy and paste it in the other extension and the other extension works nice and I don't need to start from scratch on blocking the channels again. I'll be surprised if the person who made this extension actually updates but i doubt it. Its been 7 months orso and no one's updated this extension so i'm now giving this a 1/5 but it should be 0/5 if I could I would.
Ben
Used to work great, hasn't worked in a long time. Bummer. Still: 5 stars for providing such an excellent service for two or so years for free! We should be more grateful for this kind of stuff.
anchilles Vilmos
Its good for me
Lievre
Was amazing when it worked, buts its been broken for a few weeks now as of 2025/07/13. Needs to be updated but I think this is an abandoned project
Daksh Patel
Now I will not see inappropriate thumbnails : D YAY
Forever Thatter
When it worked, it worked flawlessly. Unfortunately now it triggers the Adblock warning and you're unable to watch anything unless you disable it completely. Don't know when it was last updated, but I haven't been able to use it for over a year now.
Anon Y. Mous
When it worked, it was great, but it needs to be updated, as it doesn't work anymore.
유전
Channels are no longer being blocked. Even the channels on the block list continue to appear due to the algorithm. Although the last update was a long time ago, nothing has changed.