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.