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Feature suggestion: Have an option to block entire videos that serve purely as a marketing operation #2140

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bag-man opened this issue Oct 23, 2024 · 2 comments

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@bag-man
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bag-man commented Oct 23, 2024

I've been thinking it would be great to have an "extreme" mode that would remove flagged videos from YT homepage and subscription feeds. This could be used to remove content that is purely marketing exercises. There is a lot of content like this, and some of it can be quite subtle. Nothing quite like realising you are watching a glorified infomercial five minutes into a video...

Would anyone else have any interest in such a feature? I'd be happy to work on it, though I'm a backend developer so wouldn't be so good at the FE side.

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ThisAMJ commented Feb 27, 2025

There is a "whole video" option when submitting that puts a badge on the thumbnail and next to the title on videos that are entirely sponsored, unpaid/self promotion, exclusive access. It's not the most obvious, but if you hover over it you can see which of the above categories it is.

A green badge in the corner of a video's thumbnail

Hovering over the badge displayed the text "Sponsor"

A prominent sponsor banner is shown next to the video's title in the player

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ThisAMJ commented Feb 27, 2025

vtc as wontfix, I believe the badge/banner is plenty visible and more informative than deleting the videos from results outright.

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