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YouTube Detox — Block Shorts, Hide Recommendations & Stay Focused

A complete toolkit to help you use YouTube with purpose. Block Shorts, remove distractions, and stay focused on what truly matters.

Users4KCurrent public install base
Rating4.6Store average score
Reviews57Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
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Version5.8.1
ManifestV3
Size413KiB
Languages1English
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YouTube Detox is a productivity extension designed for people like me who feel that their phone — and platforms like YouTube — are getting in the way of their goals. If you’ve ever opened YouTube to watch "just one video", only to find yourself an hour later watching random videos that don't even matter to you, you’re not alone. And while no piece of software can magically transform your habits overnight, this extension can provide you with the support and the tools you need in your quest to take back control of your time and attention — so you could spend them the way you truly intend to.

💡 FEATURES

🧹 Remove What Distracts You

Gain control of how YouTube looks and behaves to make it less distracting. For example, you can:

- Remove Shorts from all pages

- Play Shorts videos as regular videos

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Store average score4.6Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.5Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text40Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews57Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Emmanuel Klement2026年7月13日
3

Functionality is decent but has a major flaw. It has no way to lock the settings in place. Not even the "type the phrase to disable" feature works, since you can tweak the settings in a click without disabling the extension. Would be much better, if you could create time blocks, daily allowances, etc. that don't allow tampering. That would make it 5 stars.

Version 5.8.1Language en
Sean Pears2026年5月1日
1

unskippable full page pop up. zero stars.

Version 5.8.1Language en
Yasmin Almeida2026年4月24日
5

Perfeito, é estressante no começo, mas muito customizável e ótimo caso que esteja decidido a não usar mais o Youtube como antes, tenho usado há meses e hoje me vejo muito melhor, principalmente com os vídeos curtos.

Version 5.8.1Language pt
Jonathan Ingram2026年4月16日
1

Extremement mal optimisé sur mac, provoque d'enorme ralentissement

Version 5.8.1Language fr
Shaury Gupta2026年4月15日
4

Every usefull extension, I loved it but you can also give us a time out side on pin area.

Version 5.8.1Language en
Vinayak Vivek2026年3月26日
4

BEST FOR ME LIKE I CAN STUDY WITHOUT GETTING DISTRACTED JUST ONE THING CAN U PLEASE ADD A FEATURE WHERE LIKE I CAN USE MY BREAK LIKE ONLY ONCE OR TWICE SO THAT I GET LESS DISTRACTED AND STUDY BETTER OR IF I CAN'T USE UTUBE HOMEPAGE MY BREAK TIME IS OVER

Version 5.8.1Language en
Cube2026年3月10日
5

Very good, It takes only a few seconds to set up and great results. It works well.

Version 5.8.1Language en
Abigail Geffken2026年3月8日
5

This is an absolutely phenomenal tool for creating friction between me and distraction. While I love the specific tools for configuring YouTube—in particular, the ability to disable shorts—the ability and freedom to choose for myself is the greatest gift of this extension. Yes, I should be able to resist distraction, resist the algorithm whose sole job is to make me scroll for as long as possible. But for years, exhaustion, stress, procrastination, habit, or weakness in the face of the Goliath Leviathan power of the billion dollar industry of consumer's attention, caused me to succumb to the siren call of my screen's numbing cocktail of content. No longer! I get to choose how long I intend to spend on YouTube, and rather than relying on my own will, this tool keeps me accountable to that goal. I get to choose how YouTube looks. Sometimes I want to explore the world of recommended videos, sometimes I need to focus on a specific thing, and YouTube Detox allows me to customize that for every session. And of course, the question that confronts me every time I open the app ("Do you really want to be on YouTube?") helps create pause between impulse and action; the space this extension creates between me and distraction has been profoundly liberating. Thank you!

Version 5.8.1Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
hamad hadi2026年3月3日
5

Using this extension has helped a lot ,the starting screen shoes whether u really wanna use it or not ,this trips me up and i avoid it deliberately cuz its so annoying. It also gives u the option to adjust ur youtube:break ratio and after the time is up u can no longer use it for 5 mins which forces me to do smth else. Overall this extension actually COMPLETELY (over a month)stopped my doomscrolling(on laptop,i still doomscroll on other devices so prolly shld add this there too),it trips me up and is ANNOYING, which is perfecttt.

Version 5.8.1Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
achwak mb2026年2月13日
5

reaaalyy good help me to menage my time and focus on thing moree important > thank for all of you founders

Version 5.8.1Language en