How to Avoid Wasting Time on Bad YouTube Content Using Features?

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.

Related questions

How do I organize my YouTube subscriptions into groups or categories?

When we want to organize files, we want to put them in a folder and a subfolder, so under the organization we will represent the creation of groups for YouTube channels, with the ability to filter by them. Groups can be nested in other groups just like folders.

In this case, there are 3 approaches to organizing YouTube subscriptions:

  1. Using the RSS feed of the YouTube channel.
    Flaw:
    - you can only see the latest 15 items in the YouTube RSS feed, which is very few.
  2. Using brand YouTube accounts.
    Flaw:
    - you cannot create a complex hierarchy;
    - you cannot combine several topics;
    - you have to reload the whole page to change the group, which takes time.
  3. Using the browser extension Channel groups and rating.
    There are no downsides.
    Bonus:
    - you can collect YouTube comments in the channel dossier, which will allow you to know exactly why you subscribed to the channel or unsubscribed from it;
    - you can organize channels by rating, which allows you to limit the list of videos with one button, this is useful when you want to know the most important things and save time on watching.

This Channel groups and rating extension enhances your YouTube subscription management by enabling you to create nested groups for channels, filter videos by type and rating, and keep track of your reasons for subscribing through comment collection. It provides a seamless way to organize and prioritize your YouTube content efficiently.

What Are the Best Ways to Organize YouTube Subscriptions?

There are 3 ways to organize YouTube subscriptions in 2021, but I recommend only one of them. By organizing YouTube subscriptions, I mean grouping YouTube channels and filtering videos based on these groups.

Ways I Don't Recommend

  • Use an RSS feed aggregator and add the YouTube RSS feed to it.
    Disadvantages:
    • In the RSS feed of the YouTube channel, there is very little data, only 15 latest items.
  • Create a YouTube brand account for each channel topic.
    Disadvantages:
    • Accounts are presented in the form of a list, but not a tree, so you cannot create a group for a group of channels;
    • To move a channel from one group to another, you need to unsubscribe in one account and subscribe in another, this is slow;
    • Each group is on a separate page, to merge videos from several topics, you need to create a new account and subscribe to channels;
    • Changing the group requires changing the account, which leads to the page reloading, and this requires additional time.

Recommended way

Use a tool specially created for this purpose - the 'Channel groups and rating' browser extension.
Bonuses:

  • You can group channels, even those to which you are not subscribed;
  • You can collect YouTube comments, which will allow you to create dossiers of channels, it is useful to know when you want to unsubscribe from the channel;
  • You can organize channels using the rating, which allows you to limit the list of videos with one button, this is useful when you want to narrow the choice regardless of the topic of the channel;
  • Groups are now stored on your own Google Drive, so you don't depend on YouTube.