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IT question: Blocking Keywords in Youtube

Last posted Jan 13, 2017 at 03:34PM EST. Added Jan 13, 2017 at 02:26PM EST
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I'm going to lazily ask a question here because I haven't found a proper answer elsewhere.
There's a game that came out in Japan that hasn't come out in the US yet and I'm avoiding spoilers like the plague. I'm worried a video with a spoilery thumbnail will pop up. Is there a way I can block videos with the game's title until I can buy the US copy?

Seems to use the system of "Add – (minus sign) to remove items from search results", and "use "" (quotes signs) to search for exact phrase" and both can be combined.

Example:

dank

dank -memes

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dank+-"memes+vine"">dank -"memes vine"

Works for me, but you might get different results because mines are changed for an Spanish user interface/search interest.

Edit: damn, those quotation signs break both Textile and HTML, but you get what i'm trying to say, right.

Last edited Jan 13, 2017 at 03:26PM EST

I'm not so much worried about search results as I am recommended videos on the main page and sidebar. I watched a lot of videos relating to the previous installments of the franchise, so videos related to the game pop up a lot.

I don't know of any setting you can use but if you include a dash right before a word it will omit results that contain that word. For example, "video games -Pokémon" will turn up results without the word Pokémon. I'm pretty sure you have to put the dash in front of every word.
Edit: looks like Glacier beat me to it.

Last edited Jan 13, 2017 at 03:29PM EST

Then, i guess the best i can say is to open a new tab on incognito mode. The new tab should be something unlinked to your YT/google account (if any) and the cookies stored on your computer, as if you were a "fresh" user.

I didn't check, but if you have a google account, it should have a page on your historial and a vague image of your preferences based on that, which you can edit.

Edit: this one, i think:
https://myaccount.google.com/

Last edited Jan 13, 2017 at 03:36PM EST
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