You didn't subscribe to half the channels in your feed — YouTube put them there. Here's how to remove unwanted channels from your YouTube homepage, search, and recommendations, and stop them from coming back.
What "remove" means on YouTube
There's no single "remove channel" button for viewers. What you actually want is to remove a channel from three places: your homepage feed, your search results, and your recommendations (sidebar, end screens, "up next"). YouTube's native tools touch only the third, and only weakly.
YouTube's built-in options
- "Don't recommend channel" (three-dot menu on a video) reduces a channel in recommendations. It's temporary — YouTube reintroduces it after a few weeks — and it does nothing for search results.
- Clearing watch history resets personalization, which can briefly clear unwanted channels, but they return as you keep watching.
Neither truly removes a channel. They nudge the algorithm; they don't obey you.
The durable way: a blocklist extension
To remove a channel from every surface and keep it removed, use a Manifest V3 extension that holds a real blocklist. Blokari hides blocked channels across your homepage, search, subscriptions feed, and recommendations — and stays applied on every load.
Two ways to remove channels with it:
- One at a time — click the block button Blokari adds to each channel, or paste a channel URL / @handle in the options.
- In bulk by category — enable curated lists to remove whole groups at once: propaganda, AI content farms, clickbait, gambling, info-scams, and more (10,000+ channels across 14 categories).
Anything removed by mistake goes on your whitelist, so channels you actually want are never touched.
It reaches mobile and TV too
Blokari can also send YouTube's account-level "Don't recommend channel" signal automatically for the channels you remove. Because that signal lives on your Google account, the removed channels get recommended less on the mobile app and TV as well — where extensions can't run. It's a reduction there rather than a hard removal, and Blokari keeps reinforcing it as the channels resurface on desktop.
Quick reference
| Goal | YouTube native | Blokari |
|---|---|---|
| Remove from recommendations | temporary | ✅ permanent |
| Remove from search | ❌ | ✅ |
| Remove in bulk | ❌ | ✅ by category |
| Carries to mobile/TV | — | ✅ account training |
Remove a channel once on desktop, and it's gone from your feed and search — and quietly fading from your other devices too.
FAQ
Can I remove a channel from my YouTube recommendations?
Partly with YouTube's "Don't recommend channel," but it's temporary and resets. To remove a channel from your feed, search, and recommendations and keep it gone, use a browser extension like Blokari that maintains a persistent blocklist.
How do I remove channels I'm not subscribed to from my feed?
Those come from recommendations, not subscriptions. "Don't recommend channel" reduces them temporarily; a blocklist extension removes them permanently on desktop and trains your account to surface them less everywhere you're signed in.
Does clearing watch history remove channels?
It resets your personalized recommendations, which can briefly clear unwanted channels — but they reappear as you watch. It's a reset, not a removal.
Can I remove channels in bulk?
YouTube has no bulk removal. With Blokari you enable curated category lists (propaganda, AI farms, clickbait, gambling) to remove thousands of unwanted channels at once, then fine-tune with your own blocklist and whitelist.