How to block a YouTube channel (so it actually stays gone)
The short answer: on a regular account, YouTube has no real block button. “Don’t recommend channel” is the closest thing, and it keeps a channel out of your Home feed and Up next, but not out of search. Here’s what each option does, and how to make a channel disappear everywhere.
Updated November 2, 20261. “Don’t recommend channel”: the closest thing to a block
This tells YouTube to stop suggesting a channel on your Home page and in Up next.
On a computer
- Find a video from the channel on your Home page or in Up next.
- Click the three dots next to the title.
- Choose Don’t recommend channel.
In the YouTube app
- Tap the three dots next to one of the channel’s videos on Home.
- Tap Don’t recommend channel.
For a single video, choose Not interested instead. Posts from a channel have their own option, Don’t recommend posts from channel.
2. What it doesn’t do
- Search still shows the channel. YouTube doesn’t say these choices affect search results, and in practice the channel keeps turning up there.
- Reuploads and clips still get through. It applies to that channel only, so the same content from other channels is untouched.
- It’s one channel at a time. There’s no way to say “nothing about this topic”.
- Blocking someone is something else. YouTube’s block, from live chat or a mention, stops them seeing your messages and mentioning you. It doesn’t hide their videos. See how to block someone on YouTube.
To undo “Don’t recommend channel”, go to myactivity.google.com, choose Other Google activity, then YouTube ‘Not interested’ feedback, and delete it.
3. For a child’s account: “Block channel for kids”
Parents with a supervised account linked to theirs get a real block. On the channel’s page, open About, then the Report user icon, then Block channel for kids, and choose the child. Even then, YouTube warns that similar videos from other channels can still appear.
Hide a channel everywhere on YouTube
Remedy is a Chrome extension that filters YouTube as you browse. Tell it, in your own words, what you’re done seeing, like “nothing from that channel’s name” or “no reaction videos”, and it removes those videos from your Home page, search results, the sidebar next to what you’re watching, and Shorts.
It reads each video’s title and channel as it loads, so it catches a channel by name and a topic by meaning, whoever uploaded it. It works on X, Reddit, Instagram and other sites too. It runs on a computer, in Chrome, not in the YouTube app.
Questions
Can you completely block a YouTube channel?
Not on a regular account. YouTube's “Block channel” only exists for supervised kids' accounts. Everyone else gets “Don't recommend channel”, which keeps a channel out of Home and Up next, but not out of search results.
Does “Don't recommend channel” last forever?
It stays until you delete the feedback: in My Activity, open Other Google activity, then YouTube 'Not interested' feedback. Videos from the channel can still reach you through search, links and other channels' reuploads.
If I block someone on YouTube, will I stop seeing their videos?
No. YouTube's block, which you reach from live chat or a mention, is about messages: they can no longer see your live chat messages or comments, or mention you. It doesn't hide their videos.
Can I hide a whole topic rather than one channel?
YouTube has no setting for that: “Not interested” works one video at a time. A filter like Remedy can hide a topic (“no reaction videos”, “nothing about the election”) along with any channel you name.