YouShield - Remove YouTube Recommendations
Workflow & Planning
FreemiumConfidence 64
Clear YouTube recommendations, suggestions, shorts and homepage
Users
983
Rating
5.0
Reviews
46
7D Growth
+6|0.61%
Stable signalUnknownMedium-risk permissions
FocusTube: Block YouTube Shorts, Hide Recommendations & Distractions
Reclaim your attention on YouTube. Remove shorts, comments, thumbnails, sidebar & feeds. One toggle for distraction-free focus.
Users10KCurrent public install base
Rating4.7Store average score
Reviews124Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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4.73
Latest
4.72
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2026年7月16日2026年7月20日
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Version1.5.14
ManifestV3
Size393KiB
Languages1English
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Designed by Benjamin Floyd Rubin (ex-Amazon), this lightweight extension instantly eliminates YouTube's attention-grabbing elements so you can focus on content that matters to you.
✦ NEW FEATURES
1. Our new feature transforms your YouTube homepage into a clean, minimalist design, just like Google's. Avoid getting sidetracked by all the dopamine-hitting UI elements and instantly find what you're looking for.
2. YouTube Blocking is now available! Block all open tabs in your browser, or only new tabs/windows.
✦ Stop Wasting Time on YouTube:
- Hide addictive elements like Shorts, recommendations, and clickbait thumbnails
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Reviews with text87Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews124Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
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Workflow & Planning
Hide YouTube Shorts, recommendations, suggestions, and comments. Block channels and words. The ultimate distraction-free tool.
Users
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Rating
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Reviews
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7D Growth
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So far fantastic! Exactly what I've always wanted.
absolutely Love it *chef's kiss*
Amazing! Really helps me fight with my procrastination. Love how you can choose what to display and what not to at any of youtube screens separately The only thing I recognized while using - it looks like three dots under the video are not working anymore - so I cant add any vids to my playlists. Talking about them too - can you add an option to hide all thumbnails from playlists, please? Thank you so much, Benjamin! Hi again- giving you more feedback after using the extension for a while and giving you all of the answers: It looks like the problem with those three dots is fixing itself when Im turning the recommendations panel on video at "on" position. I meant https://www.youtube.com/feed/playlists as playlist page Plus its always some delay before extension hides all of the videos or/and thumbnails at the main page. Sometimes it doesnt work at all when Im on channel panel< and I have to reload the page to fix it I hide everything and everywhere except video and description, yes. Thank you for your response and development! Best wishes
Hey Benjamin!! What a great extension. I feel like you put all the necessary things in one: - unhook - Youtube-shorts block - Hide Youtube thumbnails May I suggest to also have the channel page, as when you go to one (https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium) you still see all those thumbnails :) Thanks again!
我想要在頻道的搜尋鈕中呈現橫向排列顯示，因為直向顯示YT似乎會卡死。 I want a horizontal display in the channel's search button because YT seems to freeze when displayed vertically.
Get's rid of all dopamine. Great for self-improvement. Im happy :D
Please fix thumbnail issue. I don't want to thumbnails of videos on homepage but want to see on search page.
As promised: full 5 stars for adding filter on the Subscriptions page as well. Also why do you need to read browser history?
Thank you very much man, my battle with yt addiction is never been easier ;)))
I can Finally hide those shorts. is there a way to hide breaking news section, it's annoying every time I open YouTube I manually close the breaking news section.