The drama nobody is talking about (it’s bad)
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How to hide YouTube comments
YouTube gives viewers no switch for comments. The one built-in route is Restricted Mode, which hides comments everywhere but also hides any video YouTube considers mature. FeedCut is more precise: hide the whole comment section with one switch, or keep comments and drop only the ones from channels and words you’ve blocked.
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@PrankPatrol
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@SpillCentral
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The part at 4:12 blew my mind.
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The built-in way: Restricted Mode
According to YouTube’s help page, you can’t see comments on the videos you watch while Restricted Mode is on. To turn it on, click your profile picture, choose Restricted Mode at the bottom of the menu, and switch on Activate Restricted Mode.
The catch is in the name. Restricted Mode was built to screen out potentially mature videos, and it does that too. The filter is automatic and broad, so ordinary videos sometimes vanish along with the comments. It also applies per browser, so you set it again on each computer. More in our Restricted Mode guide.
It’s a reasonable fix for a school laptop. For your own browsing, it trades one annoyance for another.
Hide every comment with FeedCut
Open the FeedCut panel
Click the FeedCut icon in your browser’s toolbar.
Turn on Hide comments
The comment section disappears under every video. The video, its title and the description stay as they are.
Turn it off when you need it
Looking for a fix in the comments of a tutorial? Flip the switch back, or pause FeedCut for 10 minutes.
Keep comments, lose the noise
Plenty of comment sections are worth reading. The useful timestamp, the correction to a recipe, the person who solved the same bug. Usually the problem is a few voices, not the whole section.
- Blocked channels. When you block a channel, its comments go too, under every video on YouTube. That includes the self-promotion that channels leave under bigger creators’ uploads.
- Blocked words. Your word list applies to comment text. Add a show’s name and spoilers stop turning up under unrelated videos; add a phrase that spam comments always use and they’re gone. See filtering comments by keyword for how matching works.
- Block from the comment itself. Every comment gets a Block button, so you can deal with someone the moment they annoy you, without leaving the page.
If you mean comments on your own channel
Creators have real moderation tools, and they’re a different job. In YouTube Studio, the Blocked words list holds back comments that contain those words, and Block user on a commenter stops them commenting on your channel. Those settings change what your viewers see. FeedCut only changes what you see while watching.
Limits
- Desktop browsers only. The YouTube apps for phones and TVs keep their comments.
- Words match text, not meaning. A comment that spoils a show without naming it won’t be caught. Hiding the whole section is the safe option for the week of a finale.
Questions
Can you turn off YouTube comments as a viewer?
There’s no comments setting for viewers. Restricted Mode hides them as a side effect, along with any video YouTube flags as mature. An extension like FeedCut can hide them on their own.
Why does YouTube say “Restricted Mode has hidden comments for this video”?
Restricted Mode is on in this browser, or your school, office or network switched it on for you. Turn it off from your profile menu. If it’s locked by a network, only its administrator can change that.
Are replies hidden too?
Yes. When a comment is hidden, its replies go with it. Replies from a blocked channel are also hidden under anyone else’s comment.
Does FeedCut hide live chat?
No. FeedCut handles the comment section under videos. Live chat on streams is left alone.
Take YouTube back to what you came for
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