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YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin

Chrome extension to liberate you from the infinite distraction cycle of YouTube.

Users937Current public install base
Rating4.5Store average score
Reviews41Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth+7Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate+0.75%Relative weekly velocity
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Version0.2.0
ManifestV3
Size32.06KiB
Languages1English (United States)
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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

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Store average score4.5Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.4Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text30Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews41Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Paul Dunahoo2021年2月10日
4

Excellent. YouTube is so much better now! I do have an issue where the video time control doesn't work properly unless the video player is put into theater mode, but other than that it is perfect.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Emmanuel Addey2020年11月30日
5

GREAT SO FAR. Say goodbye to my youtube addiction

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Connor Howard2020年11月14日
5

With the well designed anti-distraction skin, this extension offers, I have been able to bring my youtube viewing time down from a matter of hours each day to what is typically 10-20 minutes. Having curbed my youtube addiction, I feel better mentally and physically (yes, lying down in bed all day watching videos isn't good for your back). Also, because I am watching less, I value the content I happen to watch more. Thank-you developer of this extension. After a month and a half of using your extention, I am much more productive and am enjoying a higher quality of life.

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
T2020年10月11日
4

Love it! It'd be great if you could remove the access to the trending page too.

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Gersivan Oliveira2020年9月21日
4

Muito útil.

Language pt
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Blake Stewart2020年9月14日
5

I never write reviews or anything but this thing has just skyrocketed my creativity and allowed me to do things that I couldn't get to before. Amazing. The YouTube recommendation system is SO GOOD at making you watch for way too long-- the only videos I have now are ones of engineering (which I recommend unsubscribing from anyone unproductive) and also I have a playlist of nice rain noises. Thank you so much for making this.

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Лапшинов Вячеслав2020年8月11日
5

Nice work, but i can't work without PocketTube: Youtube Subscription Manager on a sidebar.

Language en
Mark Bennett2020年7月8日
5

Great extension, I love how it centres the content in the middle of the screen. Lots of love was put into this and I'm hugely appreciative. It's definitely helped prevent me from falling into the endless rabbit hole that YouTube actively enables.

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ben Fu2020年4月13日
5

I owe my own existence to the one who birthed and raised this beautiful stallion of a productivity app.

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4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Irura Nyiha2019年11月6日
5

Very nice. My productivity has spiked because of this wonderful creation. Whoever programmed this is a genius; absolutely stunning work!

Language en
9 helpful · 0 not helpful
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