Focus - Remove Shorts & Reels

Hide Shorts, Reels & Stories – YouTube, Facebook, Instagram

Hide YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, Stories, Videos, and Instagram Reels, Stories, or Explore to stay focused online. Hide Shorts, Reels & Stories is a powerful productivity Chrome extension designed to help you remove distractions, stop endless scrolling, and stay focused while browsing YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Instantly hide YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, Stories, and videos, plus Instagram Reels, Stories, and Explore — to create a cleaner, distraction-free browsing experience built for productivity, studying, and deep work. Whether you're a student, developer, remote worker, creator, or productivity enthusiast, this extension helps you take back control of your attention and reduce social media distractions with one click. • Hide YouTube Shorts from the homepage, feed, and navigation • Remove Facebook Reels from your timeline and feed • Hide Facebook Stories instantly • Block distracting Facebook Videos • Hide Instagram Reels from your feed and navigation • Hide Instagram Stories and the stories tray • Hide Instagram Explore links and the Explore grid • Smooth Instagram feed — hidden Reels and Stories turn into compact placeholders, so your feed keeps loading instead of stalling or jumping back to old posts • Focus Mode to reduce distractions and improve concentration • Simple one-click toggle controls for every platform • Dark / Light / Auto Mode support • Lightweight, fast, and privacy-friendly (no data collection) • Clean and modern user interface • Improve productivity and reduce screen time Why Use This Extension? Short-form content is designed to keep users scrolling for hours. YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, and Instagram Reels, Stories, and Explore can quickly interrupt focus, reduce productivity, and create endless distraction loops. This extension helps you: • Stay focused while studying or working • Reduce mindless scrolling and dopamine-driven distractions • Create a cleaner YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram experience • Improve concentration and digital wellbeing • Build healthier browsing habits Focus more on what matters — and less on algorithm-driven distractions. Perfect For Your privacy matters. This extension does NOT: • Track browsing activity • Collect personal data • Store user information • Sell or share data Everything runs locally in your browser for a fast and secure experience. • Added Instagram support: hide Reels, Stories, and Explore • Smooth Instagram feed — hidden Reels and Stories become compact placeholders, so the feed keeps loading instead of stalling or jumping back to older posts • Added an Instagram tab and app icon to the popup • Fixed Facebook filtering issues on newer Facebook routes and subdomains • Improved Reels, Stories, and Watch blocking reliability for desktop Facebook pages • Fixed Youtube Shorts visibility issue • Added an Auto option to the popup theme switcher so Light, Dark, and device-based theme selection work from the same control • Updated Facebook Reels and video selectors for more reliable hiding on newer Facebook markup • Added an optimized lightweight build system for faster performance and cleaner extension packaging • Improved dynamic content filtering and navigation handling for YouTube and Facebook pages • Enhanced reliability when blocking Shorts, Reels, Stories, and distracting content during page refreshes • Refined popup UI with dedicated Focus Mode, Shorts, Reels, and Facebook Stories icons • Improved toggle-row alignment, icon sizing, and overall visual consistency • Minor UI polish and performance optimizations for a smoother browsing experience • Complete popup UI redesign with a modern card-based layout • Improved toggle rows, tabs, and CTA sections • Enhanced usability and cleaner visual hierarchy • Better responsive layout and smoother interaction experience • Added Dark Mode / Light Mode toggle • Improved popup accessibility and visual consistency • UI enhancements and smoother interactions • Added tab system for organizing YouTube and Facebook controls • Improved navigation and settings management • Performance optimizations and faster execution • Enhanced privacy and Chrome Web Store compliance updates • Internal stability improvements • Improved modal interface and toggle system • Added active status indicators and count display • Refined modern UI components • Hide Facebook Reels “See more” button • Redirect Facebook Reels page to homepage

Antigram - Explore & Reels Blocker

Browser extension to fight back Instagram's addictive features. Antigram is free and it does not track you or your data. With Antigram, you will be able to check what your friends are up to without falling into a black hole of distractions and meaningless content. You can choose to block or hide Instagram's functionalities instantly by using the checkboxes in the extension's settings page. Some of Antigram's capabilities are: - 🚫 Block Instagram Reels page - 🚫 Block Instagram Explore page - 🚫 Block 'Stories' section and page - 🚫 Eradicate 'Posts' feed - 🚫 Hide 'Suggested followers' section - 🚫 Hide 'Threads' links - 🔀 Redirect always to 'Following' feed, avoiding suggested posts from the 'For you' feed. Instagram has been designed and optimized to profit from our addiction. We hope that by using the Antigram extension along with uninstalling the app from our phones and following only accounts that we care about, we can have a healthy relationship with social media. Antigram could be useful to: increase productivity, avoid distractions, avoid "fear of missing out", having a healthier use of social media, reduce social media addiction, use Instagram only to see your feed, only to message people, only to see stories, only to see your friends posts, etc. Change log: v2.1.0 - Fixed bug where stories would not hide anymore and other small bugs. Added the feature to eradicate threads links v2.0.3 - Fixed bug where stories would be hidden if redirecting to following feed. Added feedback form when uninstalling v2.0.1 - Default settings are now blocking reels, explore, suggested followers and redirect to 'following' feed v2.0 - Reels can be blocked, "For you" page can be redirected. A lot of optimizations. Simplified and updated UI. Deprecated 'Background color' option. v1.1.0 - Settings now open in popup, improved settings UI. v1.0.4 - Bugfix due to new Instagram update. All the sections can be hidden again v1.0.3 - Bugfix due to new Instagram update. The right icons are hidden now v1.0.2 - Bugfix related to default values is now actually fixed v1.0.1 - Now you can also block your feed - Bugfix related to default values is now fixed

Remove YouTube Shorts

Removes YouTube Shorts and prevents you from wasting your precious time. # Remove Shorts - Removes Shorts from search results. - Eliminates Shorts from all viewing areas. - Now Available as Mobile app, "BlockScroll". - Works with Kiwi Browser for mobile browser use. - Helps reduce distractions, allowing for increased focus. This extension completely removes YouTube Shorts as if they never existed. You won't see any Shorts videos in your feed, search results, or recommendations. Browse YouTube without distractions from short-form videos. By removing Shorts, you can stay more focused and avoid frequent distractions that interrupt your concentration. This can help you maintain a better attention span and focus on longer tasks or content. Now available as a mobile app called BlockScroll. With Block Scroll, you can block Shorts, Reels, and more directly on your phone without affecting app functionality. Get BlockScroll here: 🔗 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arktechplugins.blockscroll If you have any feedback regarding extension 📩 #Contact: https://arktech-plugins.vercel.app/contact If you liked my work you can by me a coffee ☕ #Support: https://arktech-plugins.vercel.app/support

Youtube-shorts block

Play the Youtube shorts video as if it were a normal video. A extension allows youtube shorts videos to play on a regular page. Features - Redirect shorts - Hide "shorts" tab - Hide shorts - Extended GUI for shorts player *** "Hide shorts video" is now enabled by default!!!! If you don't want to do that, please disable in option page! *** The UI of Youtube-shorts is not very well optimized for PCs and has poor functionality. This extension aims to improve the user experience by displaying short videos in the regular video player. ...utube.com/shorts/"video-id" ↓↓ ...utube.com/watch?v="video-id" Change the URL to something like. v1.5.5 features - Fix: Extension Breaks YouTube's New Replies UI #64 v1.5.2 features # Changed - Fix block the entire News(and other) page v1.5.1 features # Changed - Fix where opening in a new tab redirected to the wrong video v1.5.0 features # Changed - refactoring codebase - Fixed an issue where the hide shorts feature might not work depending on the environment (specifications). - Fixed the "open in new tab" feature on the shorts screen. - Updated to comply with YouTube's latest specifications (blocking ytd-rich-shelf-renderer). v1.4.2 features # Added - Russian translation from @jooblex # Changed - Support for Youtube specification changes v1.4.1 features # Added - German translation from @golgorath # Changed - Support new subscription page(Hide shorts video) v1.3.1 features # Changed - Fixed a bug that redirected links that were not short videos containing the string "shorts" v1.3.0 features # Added - Added "Open in regular player" button in the Shorts player - Block Shorts-related feeds (if Hide shorts video is enabled) - Add a Release notes # Changed - Fixed the problem that the load spinner does not disappear when "Hide Shorts video" is selected - Optimize "hide shorts video" v1.5.4 features - Additional selector for Shorts shelf elements by @HardyHeron2008 in #62 - Fix timing issue for richShelfFilter by @seporterfield in #63