TubeVault Preserving YouTube's early history
  1. TubeVault
  2. Overview
    1. Features
      1. Hide View Count
      2. Channel Hiding
      3. noindex
      4. Recommend Itself
      5. Redirects
    2. Validation
      1. Channel IDs
      2. Incremental IDs
      3. Video IDs

noindex

There are less than 10 channels on YouTube with this feature. This is the only known public censorship flag. As the name would imply, this feature prevents a channel from being indexed on YouTube. One of the few known channels with this feature is Race & Reason.

When viewing the page source of the channel:

"noindex":true,"unlisted":false,"familySafe":true

You can see the flag noindex which is enabled.

Tommy Robinson

The channel "Tommy Robison Online" used to have this feature enabled. It was removed from the channel after backlash from Elon Musk.

The noindex feature being enabled can be seen in the page soure of this archive.

Previously, on every video from channels with this feature, a warning would be displayed:

This has since been removed for all channels with this feature.