How to Block YouTube Channels That Are Bad for Your Health

Social media is indeed great until it is not. Now and again, the free trade should be dialed back a piece, particularly with regards to that one troll who constantly disregards.

Anybody investing any energy online as of late may have gone over something they see as despicable. YouTube uses up the greater part of the web’s clients with its incredible 2-billion active monthly users. For everything that may appear to be acceptable on the humongous video-sharing stage, the absolute troublesome of all human connections occur on YouTube.

At present, the inquiry emerges on how you can protect yourself and your family from the awful and poor content, and how to block YouTube channels that make such harmful materials and comments.

Moreover, right after you upload some good content and you start getting appreciation, out of nowhere, the haters turn out by the thousand. Is there a specific user who is making you crazy? It is okay; they cannot comprehend your talent. In any case, you do not need to leave their despicable remarks on your work of art. Restore your positivity and peace of mind by blocking all of them.

On YouTube, the most ideal approach to deal with this circumstance is by blocking those people who cannot stop giving you negative comments. Since it keeps them from having the option to remark on your material, we are going to discuss how you can block such channels and users from your YouTube account. In this way, you can block users who you consider are bad for your mental health, and thus restore your peace of mind.

How Can You Get Rid from YouTube Channels?

This will take only a few minutes if you know the username of the person you want to block. If you are using your computer, follow the steps below:

• Login to your YouTube account.
• Search for the account that you want to block.
• Go to their account and search for the option ‘about’ as shown in the picture below.

• Tap on the ‘mini flag’ you see on the right side of the page and then select ‘block user.’

• If you want to block this person, you have to tap on ‘submit.’

You can likewise block YouTube channels or accounts from your phone as you would do it on a personal computer. It will have a similar impact, and thus it will keep bullies from interacting with your substance.

If you are using YouTube from your phone, then follow the steps given below,

1. Open the YouTube app on your mobile.
2. Search for the account that you want to block.
3. When the main page pops up, look for three dots at the right corner.
4. A drop-down menu will appear, and then you need to select ‘block user.’

When you choose the option ‘confirm,’ the trolls will not have the option to send you direct messages or be allowed to remark on your videos. After this, you can return to uploading your videos in peace. The trolls will not trouble you any longer. They will not get any notification regarding you blocking them, and they will not be able to make any contact with you in the future.

How to Protect Kids From Inappropriate YouTube Channels?

Protecting your children while they watch cartoons or movies online is important. This is because we never know when an inappropriate thing for kids might pop up. All parents should think about various strategies that could be implemented for the safety of their kids. Sometimes your answer is not blocking because it cannot block every harmful video or content you see on YouTube.

How to make sure that your kid is seeing the appropriate content? The answer to this is the ‘restricted mode’ which is available to all YouTube users; this enables them to not see those videos that seem inappropriate.

The restricted mode, which is also referred to as the ‘safety mode’ on YouTube, is certainly not a foolproof strategy; however, it is a decent method to sift through the substance that you do not need your children to see.

Enabling the restricted mode is very easy. Just follow the steps given below to enable it,

1. If you are already logged in, go to the home page of your YouTube account. Then look for the option ‘account info.’  
2. Then, scroll down to look for the ‘restricted mode’ option. It might be turned off, so you have to turn it on as shown in the pictures below.

When you change it to ‘on,’ your main YouTube home page will reload and that will automatically enable your safety mode on YouTube.        

This is how the safety mode on YouTube works:

• Conceals the entire content that is inappropriate for kids.
• Does not show search results of any adult content.
• Hides remarks as default.
• Does not show inappropriate terms in the comments.

Thus, if you are a parent whose child is online for a large part of the day and invests a lot of energy on YouTube, you can consider using this feature for a monitored browsing experience for them.

Consistently, over 300-hours of video content is transferred on to YouTube databases while 5-billion videos are viewed each day. This only shows the metrics a content creator and a user needs to manage. Content makers need to shield themselves from the ceaseless trolls and tricks that hit every other channel and impact its userbase. Children and sensitive parts of the society need to keep a safe amount of distance from harmful and triggering content that is uploaded on the platform. To protect both ends of the platform, I have made this guide to smoothen the procedure for blocking YouTube channels and videos from negatively impacting your life.