Bloked Get Bloked

Chrome extension

Block the words you
don't want to see.

Type in a keyword. Bloked quietly hides or blurs every YouTube video, news headline, and link that mentions it — everywhere you browse, as you scroll.

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  • No account
  • No tracking
  • Zero network requests
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Three steps, then forget about it

Bloked has no dashboard to learn and nothing to configure per site.

  1. 1

    Add your words

    Open the toolbar popup and type a keyword or a whole phrase. Matching is case-insensitive and matches partial words, so elect also catches election and electoral.

  2. 2

    Pick hide or blur

    Hide removes the item from the page entirely. Blur leaves it in place behind a soft blur — click once to reveal it if you change your mind.

  3. 3

    Just browse

    Bloked keeps watching as new content loads, so endless feeds stay filtered while you scroll. A badge on the toolbar icon counts what it caught on the current page.

Hide it, or blur it

Same feed, same blocked word — spoilers. Pick a filter style to compare.

Sourdough for absolute beginners

Pan & Proof · 412K views

Season 3 finale spoilers — everything explained

Screen Theory · 1.2M views

Repairing a 1970s desk lamp

Small Fixes · 88K views

SPOILERS: the ending nobody saw coming

Late Night Recap · 640K views

How train timetables actually work

Track & Signal · 233K views

A static illustration — no video is loaded and nothing here talks to YouTube.

What it does

Built for YouTube

Recognises the real YouTube layout — home feed, sidebar recommendations, grids, playlists and Shorts — and filters the whole card, not just the text.

Works on the rest of the web too

On any other site it reads headings and link text, then hides the surrounding article or list item. Good for news front pages and aggregators.

Hide or blur

Choose whether blocked content disappears or sits behind a blur you can click to reveal. One setting, applied everywhere.

Keeps up with infinite scroll

A mutation observer re-scans as new items appear, with debouncing so busy pages stay responsive.

Per-site off switch

Turn Bloked off on one domain and leave it on everywhere else — or flip the master switch to pause it entirely.

Your list follows you

Keywords live in Chrome's synced storage, so the same blocklist shows up on every computer where you're signed in.

Get Bloked

Version 1.0.0 · Manifest V3 · Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers

Recommended

Chrome Web Store

One click, and updates arrive automatically.

Add to Chrome

Listing under review — use the manual install below in the meantime.

Install from a .zip

Available right now. Takes about a minute.

Download bloked-extension.zip

Verify it before you load it

This file installs an extension that can read every page you visit, so confirm it's the one we published. On macOS or Linux: 

shasum -a 256 bloked-extension.zip

Expect exactly:

981da68d011192d5bb63dedf08da5fc1e4cf102b5751501e2e6dcf1a1c854fd0

Windows: certutil -hashfile bloked-extension.zip SHA256 · also in SHA256SUMS.txt. If it doesn't match, don't load it.

  1. Unzip the download.
  2. Open chrome://extensions.
  3. Turn on Developer mode, top right.
  4. Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.
  5. Pin Bloked to your toolbar and add your first keyword.

Privacy, plainly

Bloked makes no network requests of any kind. There is no server to send anything to.

  • No analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting.
  • No account, no sign-in, no email address.
  • Your keywords stay in Chrome's own synced storage, tied to your Google account — never to us.
  • Page content is examined in the tab and never copied, stored, or transmitted.

Bloked does request access to every site, because a keyword filter is only useful if it can read the page you're on. That access is used for exactly one thing: comparing visible text against your own blocklist.

Questions

Does it block the video itself, or just the title?

The whole card. Bloked matches against the title text but hides the entire thumbnail-and-title block, so there's no leftover gap or half-visible spoiler.

Can I use phrases, not just single words?

Yes. Anything you type is matched as a plain substring, so season 3 finale works as one entry.

Is matching case-sensitive?

No. Spoilers, spoilers and SPOILERS are all the same to Bloked.

Will it slow down my browsing?

It shouldn't. Scans are debounced and each element is checked once, which keeps the work small even on feeds that load continuously.

Something got hidden that I wanted to see.

Switch the filter style to Blur and click the blurred item to reveal it, disable Bloked for that one site from the popup, or remove the keyword that caught it.

Does it work on Firefox or Safari?

Not today. Bloked is a Manifest V3 extension for Chromium browsers — Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera and Vivaldi.

Take the words out of your feed.

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