Remove Youtube Recommendations

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This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

CRX ID
mbmpacckpgkbafjfiiflmjdmdhbobjag
Status
Unpublished Long Ago
Description from extension meta

Youtube recommendations are bad.

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Remove Youtube Recommendations
Description from store

Hides all recommended videos in the youtube sidebar that say "Recommended for you". This doesn't get rid of all weird recommendations but it gets rid of the ones that are particularly bad. This makes youtube work the way it used to work years ago, with actually relevant videos in the sidebar.

This supports both the new (polymer) and classic designs.
shout out to the valiant but insufficient hbomb's youtube censorship addon which will remove the very worst of youtube from places other than the sidebar

1.2 (February 2 2018): Fixes for a couple issues. In the new design, it no longer hides the 'up next' video, even if it is recommended. In the classic design, handle videos loaded after clicking on the load more button properly.

1.1 (September 15, 2017): Now that the polymer'd version is out to everyone I discovered it wasn't working when inside a playlist. That is now fixed.

Latest reviews

R 2020-09-20

Didn't work. I added it and refreshed Youtube. Got one new video. Refreshed Youtube again and got back the same videos it's been trying to foist on me for days. I deleted my entire watch and search history, as well as pause all watch and search tracking, in YouTube but not even one new video suggestion. Clearly Youtube still tracks you. And this extension did nothing for me.

spookym 123 2020-09-03

Didn't do a thing.

Arsenii Brylov 2020-01-11

perfect

Chris Idema 2019-07-29

Doesn't work. I recommend DF Tube

Kaileigh Stehr 2019-06-21

Works!! Ty so much!

Not_A_Hitman 2019-06-12

THANK YOU, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS ALL OVER

Daniel A 2019-05-21

Fanastic extension, works perfectly. Amazing that this is even possible

David Poitou 2019-04-02

A enfin rendu youtube agréable ! Merci

Anonymous 2019-03-24

Didn't work.

Andrew Field 2019-03-14

Bad news: it doesn't affect the recommended videos that show up in the video player itself at the end of a video. Good news (albeit a bit niche): after submitting captions/subtitles on videos, it does seem to affect the suggestions of other videos to contribute to.

HeRo2055 2019-02-19

Works great

Kevin Johnson 2019-01-06

It does not work. Recommended videos still show up.

Green Purple 2019-01-05

Unrelated videos with "Recommended for you" under them are gone, cleaning up a lot of the filth in the sidebar. Youtube still sneaks completely unrelated videos into the sidebar but doesn't tag them as "Recommended for you", so those slip by, but the sidebar is much more relevant to the video with this extension.

Kastellan 2018-12-13

Its fake it doesn't work

Disciple de Jésus-Christ 2018-12-07

marche pas

a a 2018-12-05

Although not as prejudice as I'd like, it definitely gets rid of most of the non relevant videos that youtube recommends. If you prefer youtube to suggest relevant videos based on what your watching at the moment, instead of the popular videos in your history, this should help quite a bit

SAYED HASAN 2018-11-16

awesome build......... now I can freely browse the YouTube. Thanks a lot.

Anonymous 2018-09-08

Does seem to be working. Uninstalled.

vitzie 629 2018-08-13

I'm glad that I can finally see a sidebar on YouTube where "recommended for you" videos are absent. Pretty interseting.

teluoborg 2018-08-06

works

A Google User 2018-08-01

Some unrelated, "recommended" videos are still showing up.

Peter-andre' Pliassov 2018-07-20

Thank you so very very much! This is exactly what I needed!

S Ali [key7im] 2018-07-10

The way, youtube should work. Perfect extension. Thanks a lot

Excel U 2018-05-08

FINALLY, youtube should have been like this in the first place, back to the way it should have been.

Murve 2018-04-06

So far so good. This doesn't completely remove the UP NEXT side bar like some extensions. It just removes youtube recommendations. Do you know why? They're bad.

Azamyth 2017-11-28

Works Great when it works but its just stopped working as of 11/27/2017

Jacob Baboun 2017-11-02

YESS!!!!!

Anonymous 2017-08-03

Not working

Statistics

Installs
1,663
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
22_accessibility
Rating
3.8 (54 votes)
Last update
2021-03-31
Version 1.2
Languages
en