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Focused Youtube

Open source extension that removes comments/recommendations from Youtube: https://github.com/makaroni4/focused_youtube

Users10KCurrent public install base

Rating4.9Store average score

Reviews657Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

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Version3.10

ManifestV3

Size2.2MiB

Languages1English

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This is an open-source extension that changes homepage of Youtube (only search bar) and drops recommendations/comments from other pages.

Extension requires access to Youtube website to change its outlook.

Extension icon opens a popup with an option to show/hide the comments section of a video (to check timestamps in comments, for example). In the latest version, an option to temporarily disable the extension was added.

You can hover over the YouTube logo to access the navigation menu – playlists, liked videos, watch history, etc.

Enjoy <3

Important: the extension doesn't collect any data about Youtube usage.

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Store average score4.9Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average4.9Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text455Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews657Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Sal2025年4月26日

Helps me focus

Chase Kimball2025年4月23日

Super helpful for watching tutorial videos during work without getting distracted. I really appreciate this extension!

Siddhant Chauhan2025年4月21日

finally found this app helpful , it really help me in focus improvement , thanks to teams .

Divyansh Pandey2025年4月21日

very ood app keep me focused hie studing on youtube

Julius Heesen2025年4月14日

nice Tool to be Focused agin when using Youtube

Kenul joy2025年4月14日

best extension for watching lectures on yt

Ranjeet Vishwakarma2025年4月13日

Awesome, I am using Focused Youtube since April 2024 and i am too impressed with its functionality and its features

Ahmed Raouf2025年4月8日

a must have extension if you need YOUTUBE for work ...

Tayeb Benzenati2025年4月7日

best one

Vaibhav Prakash2025年4月6日

Super Helpful

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Popup.js and welcome.js are compiled Vue.js bundles (~67KB and ~60KB) making it difficult to inspect exact popup UI features without deeper decompilation, though keyword scans confirm no payment/login logic
The extension is fully open source on GitHub so behavior can be verified externally

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension is open source (MIT licensed, GitHub repo linked) with no payment, billing, premium tier, or upgrade logic. All keyword hits were false positives: 'subscription'/'subscribe' refer to YouTube's Subscriptions page/feed (e.g., /feed/subscriptions link and subscriptions.svg icon), 'license' hits are all '@license MIT' headers from bundled Vue.js, and 'pro' hits are minified Vue.js variable names in the compiled bundle. No Stripe, PayPal, or other payment platform integrations exist. The popup UI contains toggle switches for extension features but no upgrade or payment prompts.

Confidence: 95
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension does not implement any login or account system. It uses chrome.storage.local for all settings (extension_enabled, comments, infinite_scroll, description, shorts). The 'account' keyword hit at content_script.js:33 is simply a navigation link to YouTube's own /account page, and the 'session' hit at line 53 is sessionStorage (browser storage, not authentication). No authentication tokens, credentials, or account creation flows exist in the source code.

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