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Sometimes you see a video on the main page or among those suggested by a search engine, and you understand that you do not trust this source of information and you do not want to waste your time on any video from it.
There is an opportunity to like the video on YouTube, after which you can find this video in a special playlist. If you put a dislike, then you will not see the playlist for the videos you disliked, but you can see the dislike for this video. YouTube also has the ability to create playlists, so you can basically add bad videos to playlists.
In addition, YouTube has the ability to subscribe to a channel, and you will receive videos from this channel in YouTube subscriptions.
How can these YouTube features help us to avoid watching videos from bad YouTube channels?
We add only videos to playlists, if new videos from this channel come out, this will not help us much in determining that the channel is not suitable for us, since a new video has not been added to the playlist. But, of course, we can understand that there is no need to watch a video that has already been added to the playlist or which has been disliked.
Subscribing to a channel gives us the opportunity to create a label about the channel, but the label does not give us enough information. If we use the fact of subscription as information that we do not like the channel, then we will lose the opportunity to use YouTube subscriptions for their intended purpose and everything that we get in the YouTube subscriptions section will be from those YouTube channels that we do not like.
It can be concluded that it seems that it is simply impossible to mark YouTube channels as bad.
How do I mark YouTube channels as bad?
In order for this opportunity to appear, you need to use the Channel groups and rating extension. As in the operating system, we use the trash bin for garbage. Likewise, for bad content, we can use the YouTube folder for trash. We need to create a YouTube folder for spam or junk and place the selected channels there. In other words, we need to group YouTube channels that we consider garbage. The name of this YouTube folder (group) is located on the video viewing page, so by organizing YouTube channels in this way, you can immediately understand what quality this video is.
Since this feature is so necessary, why didn't YouTube implement it?
In the past decade, YouTube has made a similar feature and now you can even find some mentions of it. But this feature has been removed from YouTube.
While watching videos, you often gather valuable information that can help save time. However, simply liking a clip does not effectively help you decide whether to watch new videos from the same channel.
The Channel groups and rating extension solves this by allowing you to link your impressions to your subscriptions through grouping channels together. This organization helps you quickly find relevant clips and avoid spending time on broadcasts that do not interest you.
For example, if you subscribe to a channel that uploads many videos daily but only one weekly show interests you, the extension lets you hide unnecessary videos with one click. You just add the channel to a YouTube folder and include it in a filter when needed.
By ranking and organizing YouTube channels, this extension streamlines your viewing experience, making it easier and faster to access content that matters to you.
If you have many YouTube subscriptions, the Channel Groups and Rating extension helps you organize them efficiently by grouping channels into hierarchical categories, similar to folders.
This extension extends the capabilities of the native YouTube subscription manager found on the subscription management page by allowing you to create channel groups (YouTube folders) that mimic the old YouTube collections feature.
Unlike the discontinued collections, the data you create with this extension is stored on your Google Drive, giving you full control. You can back up, sync, view, or delete this data just like a regular file on Google Drive.
Besides organizing channels into folders, the extension also lets you manage your subscriptions using ratings, offering an additional way to sort and prioritize your channels.
With the Channel Groups and Rating extension, YouTube folders already allow filtering subscriptions by groups, but this method lacks the flexibility provided by numerical ratings.
When you filter subscriptions by group, you must manually click the corresponding checkbox in the filter tree. If you want to switch to a different category, you often need to search for another checkbox that might be far from the previous one, which wastes time.
In contrast, the channel rating feature lets you adjust the minimum rating value in one place, eliminating the need to search through the group checkboxes.
For example, you can assign a higher rating to channels whose shows you always want to watch, and a lower rating to those you can skip. Depending on your available time, you can quickly change the minimum rating value with a single button to see videos that fit your schedule.
While the YouTube folder name helps you filter by topic, the channel rating helps limit the list of videos regardless of topic, making subscription management more efficient and personalized.
Now let's imagine you recognize something in a video that characterizes the channel as a whole. For example, you notice the video contains inappropriate behavior. In this case, you might stop watching and hope you won't be offered videos from this channel in the future.
However, if you encounter another video from the same channel and you like it, you may want to manage your subscriptions more efficiently. To save time, you might consider unsubscribing from some YouTube channels, but first, you need to determine if this channel is worth keeping.
The Channel Groups and Rating extension helps by linking comments directly to their respective channels. This feature allows you to track channel behavior over time and make informed decisions about your subscriptions, improving your overall YouTube experience.
This Channel Groups and Rating extension enables you to leave written notes about the moments you liked or did not like on any YouTube channel.
With this extension, you can bind YouTube comments directly to a channel, creating a kind of editable channel dossier made up of the comments you have selected.
These comments do not have to be written by you personally; you can use any relevant comments to build a comprehensive profile of the channel's quality and content.
Using this feature helps you evaluate and rate YouTube channels more effectively by organizing feedback and impressions in one place, enhancing your channel management and decision-making process.
Have you ever subscribed to just keep the link? Of course, in this case, you start receiving video from this channel. But what if you don't want to receive any videos? You can copy the link to the channel instead of subscribing to it, but then you need to save this link somewhere. In such cases, it would be better to simplify the addition of the link.
Using the Channel groups and rating extension, you can group YouTube channels without subscribing, so you can find them easily by the link. The changes will be saved to Google Drive, allowing access from other devices.
Typically, if you have at least one news subscription, you receive dozens of new videos daily, which can make it harder to find videos on other topics. For more objective information, having several news sources is better, but managing all these subscriptions on YouTube is difficult because you cannot easily remove all news videos when no longer needed.
This extension acts as a YouTube subscription filter, allowing you to group subscriptions and create hierarchies. For example, all news channels can be combined into one group, separating them from other topics. You can then filter subscriptions to exclude this group and focus on other content.
High-quality content is often difficult to produce, so creators release videos less frequently. For example, science videos may appear less than once a month. You might have hundreds of such sources, each with a low video output frequency compared to news channels.
What is the problem if you want to receive high-quality content?
The problem is that you are managing many video sources with infrequent updates. The Channel groups and rating extension helps by organizing YouTube channels, supplementing YouTube's subscription manager with grouping functions. This allows you to create a structured hierarchy of sources to search and filter by category, topic, and content quality effectively.