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Block YouTube Shorts, feed, recommendations, and comments to stay focused and reduce distractions. This open-source Chrome extension helps you block YouTube distractions by allowing you to remove shorts from your feed and block shorts in recommended videos. You can also hide shorts, along with blocking YouTube feed, recommendations, and comments for a cleaner, more focused viewing experience. Take control of your online time by filtering out unwanted short videos and distracting content across the platform. Perfect for boosting productivity, reducing screen time, and enjoying a distraction-free browsing experience. Customize your settings easily to stay focused whenever you watch videos or browse YouTube. The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/vishnugt/Zen-Youtube.
Hide YouTube Thumbnails
Hide YouTube Thumbnails for less clickbaity browsing Simply hides thumbnails on YouTube to have a more peaceful and less distracting browsing experience. Also useful for avoiding spoilers or inappropriate imagery. This extsion could also be descibed as blocking YouTube thumbnails on videos, disabling YouTube thumbnails on videos, blurring YouTube thumbnails on videos. People have found it useful for: - Hiding distracting or inappropriate YouTube thumbnails in class when teaching students - Hiding YouTube thumbnails to reduce distraction and procrastination when studying or working - Hiding YouTube thumbnails to avoid spoilers in the video
DF Tube New (Distraction Free for YouTube™)
Allow yourself to focus while using YouTube™ for work, recreation or education. 📺💡 Stay Focused with DF Tube! 🚫 Tired of mindless scrolling on YouTube? 🙅♂️ Want to break the cycle of endless video recommendations and stay focused on what matters? 🤔 Introducing DF Tube, the ultimate productivity companion for YouTube! 📊 By default, DF Tube disables autoplay, hides distracting video recommendations, and removes the grid of suggested videos on your homepage. 🙅♂️ It's like having a personal assistant to help you stay on track! 🤝 With DF Tube, you can: ✨ Hide shorts videos and tab ✨ Disable autoplay and take control of your video watching experience ✨ Hide video recommendations and related videos to avoid distractions ✨ Remove the grid of recommended videos on your homepage ✨ Hide comments and disable playlists sitewide (optional) Take back control of your YouTube experience and focus on the content that matters to you! 📚💻 Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply looking for some relaxing music, DF Tube is here to help you stay focused and productive. 🎯 Try DF Tube today and discover a more mindful way to use YouTube! 🙏 How to use it? Pin the extension icon in the toolbar, click on the icon to open the settings
YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin
Chrome extension to liberate you from the infinite distraction cycle of YouTube. Like other social media platforms, YouTube is very good at showing you content that you want to watch but weren't planning to or looking for, making it super easy to get distracted and get sucked into one video after another and suddenly lose an hour of your day. Yet there are so many valuable resources and videos that you can't find elsewhere: tutorials, event coverage, specific creators you subscribe to who you know always publish high-quality content worth watching. For many of us, the value of YouTube makes it worth the sacrifice of even its most distracting possibilities, and it's impossible to just cut away. What if it didn't have to be this way? What if you could have the good of YouTube, see the content you want to see, without the platform constantly trying to drag your attention through an endless stream of productivity-draining drudgery? This is the philosophy behind YouTube Liberation. It's time to rise up, lose your chains, and join us as we march our way towards a better YouTube! YouTube Liberation works by hiding elements that lead you towards new content you don't intend to see, without compromising any core viewing features. These elements include: - The entire home page of alg-generated recommendations - Video recommendations on watch pages - Comments sections on watch pages - Extraneous UI elements, replacing the full sidebar with a much more minimal one and removing most topbar buttons YouTube liberation does not at all compromise: - Subscriptions and trending pages - Channel pages - Playlists - Video stats, description, etc. What are considered vital core features and what are considered distracting elements varies from use case to use case and person to person. For certain kinds of videos, comments might be more constructive than distracting. For creators, notifications and easy access to uploading might be important (though that's why YouTube Studio exists...). Thus, one feature I'm working on adding right now is the ability to customize what gets hidden and what is shown, with a recommended configuration as it is right now.
UnTrap for YouTube — Block YouTube Shorts & Remove Recommendations
Make YouTube more focused and distraction-free. UnTrap turns YouTube into a clean, focused, and intentional space. It removes distractions like Shorts, visual noise, and attention-grabbing UI elements, so you can watch content without endless scrolling or interruptions. UnTrap offers 250+ powerful features that let you fully customize how YouTube looks and behaves — from layout and content filters to automation, focus tools, and AI-powered summaries. Short videos are one of the biggest attention traps. UnTrap lets you remove Shorts entirely or treat them as regular videos, so you stay in control without breaking your workflow. You can disable Shorts, open them in the standard player, or keep them hidden for a cleaner interface. Decide what stays and what goes. Remove related videos, comments, suggestions, live chat, notifications, buttons, sidebars, and trending sections when they pull attention away. Reduce visual noise by hiding thumbnails, overlays, promotions, and ad banners, or even the Home feed entirely. Get instant AI video summaries with key insights, timestamps, and enhanced transcripts. Jump directly to important moments, expand transcripts or descriptions, and save summaries for later — with multilingual support across content types. A calm interface and mindful controls help reduce overstimulation and support healthier viewing habits. Whether you’re building productivity habits or simply trying to stay focused, UnTrap adapts to your workflow. Enjoy a distraction-free player with full-window viewing, resizable layout, and precise playback controls. Personalize YouTube with themes, cinema mode, or full-size theater mode. Restore the old YouTube layout, use legacy list views, or switch to a minimal interface. Small tweaks like disabling ambient lighting or improving in-page search refine everyday use. Filter content, block unwanted videos or channels, mute topics, and apply keyword-based rules to shape your feed. UnTrap supports advanced content filtering and parental control tools to help build a safer, distraction-free environment. Save time with smart automation. Disable autoplay, auto-skip video promotions, add intentional opening delays, set default playback speed, enable fullscreen automatically, redirect the Home page, and control YouTube with custom keyboard shortcuts. YouTube adapts to you — not the other way around. UnTrap works across desktop, mobile, and embedded YouTube players, making it a reliable YouTube enhancement wherever you watch.
