MindfulTube (YouTube™ without distractions)

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Status
Policy Violation Removed Long Ago No Privacy Policy
Description from extension meta

Use YouTube™ with intention and without distraction

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MindfulTube (YouTube™ without distractions)
Description from store

YouTube™ brings enormous value, but it's optimised to make you spend as long on it as possible, regardless of whether that's actually time well spent. This extension redesigns YouTube to minimise distraction and return the feeling of control and agency to users.

All distracting features like autoplay and recommended videos have been removed and there are deliberate pauses between navigating to pages to give you a moment to think.

The main design principle is that there is only one choice for each action in the user interface at any given time. In essence, all the potential rabbit holes have been plugged.

To the extent possible, we have tried to remove videos from the results which are more popular but less relevant and only show you what you actually searched for.

Upcoming features:

- Set a time limit for YouTube™ use per day
- Restrict certain categories of videos
- Block clickbait-titled videos

Latest reviews

PeKaStLa PeKaStLa 2021-07-16

Best YouTube-extension :) helps so much Only opportunity for improvement would be to remove side menu when window is small-size.

Kashan Saeed 2021-06-05

This extension is absolutely amazing and has saved me from wasting time and getting distracted on YouTube.

Naishadh 2021-01-17

the idea and implementation is great though It needs quite a lot of polishing. So many times the extension does not work.

Raunak Kochar 2020-10-31

Amazing application. Works seamlessly and helped me to avoid endless distractions

Statistics

Installs
220
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
7_productivity
Rating
4.6 (5 votes)
Last update
2019-05-13
Version 0.0.4
Languages