FilterTube

About the startup

I did have used digital blockers in past but what I was looking for is word based filtering. FilterTube blocks all content based on words currently even comments too and open source too. The entire reason I made this is for parents to be able to control YouTubeKids and for my ADHD. So, the next steps are to make it work on YTKids and add Semantic ML based filtering along with Thumbnail based too :) It all started with this thread on Google's support forum: When a parent said that he is helpless and his kid is just kept crying and screaming because of the content on YouTubeKids, and he asked me if I can create a tool to block videos by keyword or tag. And when Later YouTube Forum maintainer deleted mine and other parents comments and locked the thread, I decided to create FilterTube. https://support.google.com/youtubekids/thread/54509605/how-to-block-videos-by-keyword-or-tag?hl=en My first version video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2EtLkTwqRw&t=1s Right now you can install and try FilterTube on Chrome, Brave, Edge browser - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/filtertube/cjmdggnnpmpchholgnkfokibidbbnfgc and on Firefox and Opera from the GitHub release page - https://github.com/varshneydevansh/FilterTube/releases/tag/3.0.5 I have plans to integrate local ML based solution to filter based on semantic and similar relation content so that user can be assured to never see a related concept content ever again. Yes. FilterTube block certain creators even from appearing in search results. It does all you have to do is to add the channel ID. YouTube serves content from two types of ID UC... and @ Handle based. You can either paste anyone in the Channel Management section and Filtertube fetches the other alternate ID automatically which you can see in the second image. Now you can do it with the 3 dots from the content card and it will automatically fetch and add that channel in the filter list. and yes you an also activate the Filter All Content label for a channel so any content which mentioned that channels name will be blocked too. There is one catch if you have added let say "bts" in the keyword filter then on search page you will see the result for @ bts(BANGTAN) why? because if you are interested in a creator but not in other channels which make content about that creator you do not want to see. Overall I am open for any feedback and suggestions and yes if there are any bugs came along sorry for that I am testing heavily and pushing new releases immediately which take a while to get approved. cheers :)