Favorites, filters & ad blocking

Keep favorite channels close

1. 1

   Add a favorite

   Use a discovery card's star or Discovery > Favorite channels.

2. 2

   Expand or collapse Favorites

   Its heading toggles the section. Live Favorites sort by available viewer totals, then offline channels. Show more / Show less controls visible rows. Avatars, categories and the inset plus follow the sidebar layout; the plus adds the channel to Multiroom.

3. 3

   Search loaded Following

   Show search in Following filters names or categories. Use Show more for additional channels. Refresh following list updates a supported signed-in list. Automatically refresh following list starts off and checks about once a minute while visible. Failures retain the last list and show retry status.

Offline Favorites remain useful links. Missing metadata uses a fallback rather than invented viewer or chatter counts.

Read counts and hover previews

Sidebar hover previews use thumbnails by default. Choose Playable live preview and Small or Large in Discovery for a single muted official Kick player after a short pointer dwell. Keyboard focus alone starts no media: use Play preview. Stop, Escape, departure, hiding or disable releases it. Blocked/offline playback retains the thumbnail and Open channel. Extra playback uses bandwidth.

Hide what you do not want to browse

Use local channel, category and visible-tag lists. Card actions can hide a known channel/category. Filters affect your discovery view; they do not close an already-open stream or moderate another account.

Show stream actions on right-click adds native-card and sidebar actions for opening, adding, favoriting and hiding. Shift + F10 opens the menu on a focused channel; Shift + right-click preserves the browser menu.

Optional blocklist subscriptions

1. 1

   Choose a trusted public HTTPS JSON list

   Enter a title and URL in Discovery > Blocklist subscriptions. There is no default list.

2. 2

   Grant only its origin

   Enable a list deliberately and choose its refresh interval. New imported subscriptions start paused.

3. 3

   Inspect refresh status

   Malformed or unavailable replies preserve the last successful snapshot. Pause or Remove stops applying that list.

{
  "channels": ["example_channel"],
  "categories": ["example category"],
  "tags": ["example tag"]
}

Enable optional ad blocking

1. 1

   Open General > Ad blocker

   Enable Block ads on Kick. It starts off and pauses when enhancements are disabled.

2. 2

   Reload open Kick pages

   The preference covers matched main and secondary Kick players.

3. 3

   Check the layer status

   Advanced ad blocking methods offers independent Ad requests and banner slots, Stream source filtering and Native live player filtering choices. All three start selected; the master starts off. Inspect each method, disable one and reload the affected stream when investigating a problem. A selected source or marker count is not proof that an ad was removed.

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