Snub

You pay for the service. You don't have to watch everyone on it.

Snub is a browser extension that quietly removes the people you'd rather not see from your streaming service, and gets you out when autoplay tries to slip one past you.

Download for Chrome Free · version 1.9.1 · HBO Max

What it does

Put someone on your snub list along with the show they own. From then on their show is gone from the places your service keeps pushing it: the big carousel at the top, recommendations, Top 10, Continue Watching, search, and the "Up next" card that appears the moment your own show ends.

It doesn't leave holes. Snub removes the show before the page is drawn, so the carousel has one fewer slide and the row simply closes up, the way it would if the show had never been there. And if autoplay starts one of their episodes anyway, Snub takes you back to the home screen.

What it leaves alone

Snub removes what a person makes, not every mention of them.

Install it

Snub isn't in the extension stores yet; that's in progress. Until then, it installs straight from this download in Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers.

  1. Download Snub and unzip it somewhere it can stay, like your Documents folder. The browser runs it from that folder.
  2. Open chrome://extensions (in Edge, edge://extensions) and switch on Developer mode.
  3. Click Load unpacked and choose the unzipped folder.
  4. Pin Snub from the puzzle-piece menu, click it, and add the first person to your list. Reload your streaming tab.

Installed this way, Snub won't update itself. Check back here for new versions, or wait for the store listing, which will.

Where it works

One service at a time, because each one is built differently and each one changes without warning. It's better to work properly in one place than half-work in five.

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