Blacklist videos, channels and keywords

[okan35]

Block channels and videos

Will there be a channel blocking feature because this feature is really important in my opinion so we won't get any videos from the channels we don't want.

Block keywords (@brigglybaile #3571)

I exclusively use this app to avoid spoilers on YouTube however even then it is possible to get the ending/spoilers video no matter how careful I get. Which essentially means that I have to use Chrome YouTube Blocker extension on my pc if I want to watch gameplay or stuff. Is it possible to add a features which blocks videos that have a certain keyword(s)?
Avoiding spoilers is one of the main features of this app and this certainly make it the best YouTube app to use on mobile.

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[TobiGr]

Well, that's a difficult question. A feature like this has always two sides.
One one hand, this would allow to block these spam YouTuber's who do nothing else then click-bait and and so on. IMO a good reason to have a feature like this.
On the other hand, this is pretty dangerous. As soon as I block channels because of a different view or opinion, we create something NewPipe tries to avoid: the well know filter-bubble. Diversity is important in all parts of our live.
So I'd say, in case someone implements this, there must always be a note that a video has been removed and the ability to show it, must be given. Furthermore, a warning about the risks should be shown when the feature is enabled in the settings.
But IMO we should not implement this because this allows to suppress different opinions.
@TheAssassin @theScrabi @ALL what do you think?

[lionirdeadman]

Any feature can be abused if given to the wrong hands. I think we should allow this feature.

Let's assume the best out of people instead of the worse. It's not productive otherwise in my opinion.

[okan35]

I think people should be free to watch what they want and what they don't want. For example I against those unnecessary make up videos, I don't like them so I block those channels or I am not into football so I don't want to see anything related to football and so on. I implemented the base of this feature in Skytube and I love it. It is definitely a necessary feature. In my opinion this feature is definitely not about blocking ideas that we don't like, it would be like that if I said "let's block anything from Germany".

[TheAssassin]

I don't see any reason not to allow blocking channels. It's a lot harder to create "filter bubbles" by allowing users to manually block channels than any sort of automated filtering on server side. I don't see any reason not to do it, and I'm not quite sure what @TobiGr is trying to describe...

[vynmera]

@TobiGr I think OP is talking about a local block, as in "I don't like seeing videos from (x), I will block them" instead of some global block as in "NewPipe devs don't like (x) so it's blocked"

[okan35]

Of course I definitely didn't mean to block server wide. I wanted it to be done locally for personal preferences.

[TobiGr]

Of course I definitely didn't mean to block server wide. I wanted it to be done locally for personal preferences.

Yeah, I mixed this up. My fault. Sure we can do this. But maybe we should add an option to show hidden videos.

[okan35]

Yeah that is the way to go. It can be a blocking preference with unblocking option.

this is related
#1243

[Stypox]

What about just hiding the thumbnail of videos from blocked channels? Most of the times the title is not so "clickbaity", while the thumbnail is. This would not close users in a bubble, rather it would prevent them from getting distracted and lose their time.

[KasaiYagi]

@Stypox You still have so scroll past them / read the titles though. While thumbnail hiding would be nice, it wouldn't save as much time and distraction as just scrubbing them completely.