FocusTube: YouTube Distraction Blocker for Mindful Browsing

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Boost focus on YouTube by hiding distractions like thumbnails, Shorts, live chat, recommendations, and irrelevant results.

Latest reviews

• (2025-07-31) raghava khamampati: thank you for givving back people there power please keep the app free
• (2025-07-30) Lucas Lima: Better than all of the competition, extremely intuitive and customizable.
• (2025-07-29) Freelancer ZorZis: I installed your extension a few days ago. I am facing a problem with the video section on your extension. When I turn off the thumbnail option, it doesn't work properly. Thumbnails are always shown in the video section. Please fix the problem as soon as possible. Except it all features are awesome. Thanks a lot for making this extension
• (2025-07-09) Harshil Bhasin: This is pretty awesome. Exactly what I was looking for! The extension allows you to customise what you want/don't want on youtube.com.
• (2025-07-08) Andy Liu: Perfect if you just want to watch one video and not get distracted by clicking on the recommended videos on the side.
• (2025-07-08) nepto technologies: Pure modern best one I looked for an hour
• (2025-06-05) Surface Surface: Banger for writing a diploma
• (2025-05-17) Zahid Malique: Really useful extensions and the small ui you use for toggling is very user friendly! this extension needs more downloads
• (2025-05-08) Olimov Behruzbek: Good job bro. Very usefull extention. Thanks 🤗
• (2025-04-26) SAI CHARAN PANJA: Thankyou very much for making the extension. It's really productive. Could you please please make one for Youtube music too. Thankyou very much!! Suggestion: In the video tab of the extension, there is this button called "Title and Discription". Would love it, if one can hide title and discription separately allowing users to see the title, like, share and subscribe without having the discription. Hope you update it soon.. Thanks a lot!!
• (2025-04-12) Anavi Basu: Such a game changer! Customizable, simple, such a great way to block shorts and lessen doomscrolling
• (2025-03-28) pancakes: one of the best blockers I've used for shorts and junk
• (2025-03-24) Joey Rubin: This is a great extension for filtering out the junk that's on youtube. I've tried all the others but they just don't have the organization, ease of use, and speed that this one has.
• (2025-03-19) Harrison Tynes: Incredible at helping me stay focused, but hiding videos on the homepage also applies to YouTube music and makes it completely unusable. I would appreciate it immensely if that could be fixed, as I use YouTube music very regularly. Edit: Issue has been resolved only 2 days later, massively appreciated ❤️
• (2025-02-12) Marco: finally i can remove shorts and posts filled with hate and bots
• (2025-02-10) MINESH RAJPUT: Great tools for people who can't stop clicking videos and binging them and helps focusing
• (2025-02-08) Jimmy Getzey: ^^ What he said
• (2025-01-27) PecoVlogs: extremely useful and smooth!
• (2025-01-24) Harry Mckeown: should honestly charge for this, thanks so much!!
• (2024-12-03) Joseph DeStefano: Just installed and I still see the "shorts" section on my youtube "subscriptions" page. Edit: By default, nothing is turned off, and it's not clear how to get into the config panel to make changes. I eventually found it though and was able to turn off what I wanted. Only 3 stars because most people are gonna give up when they can't find the config page.
• (2024-11-20) Erik Normann Sannes Aanonsen: So far fantastic! Exactly what I've always wanted.
• (2024-10-04) Lilith Imran: absolutely Love it *chef's kiss*
• (2024-09-27) Tmatted: 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
• (2024-09-07) Javier Bilbao: 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!
• (2024-08-26) DanDan A: Get's rid of all dopamine. Great for self-improvement. Im happy :D
• (2024-08-18) Christian Tenner: As promised: full 5 stars for adding filter on the Subscriptions page as well. Also why do you need to read browser history?
• (2024-08-15) Avyaan: Please fix thumbnail issue. I don't want to thumbnails of videos on homepage but want to see on search page.
• (2024-06-26) Sang Đỗ Tấn: Thank you very much man, my battle with yt addiction is never been easier ;)))
• (2024-06-04) Eli Johnson: As of today I am seeing shorts on video pages again even though I have the ext set to block them. None on the home feed as of yet. I am also curious if you can force the comments back under the video rather than on the right side of the screen? Thanks for updating and getting rid of the Playables. Great work!!!!
• (2024-05-17) Dimas Aktan: 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.
• (2024-05-11) Julian Wagle: Amazing work on this, thank you! P.S. I noticed that after you pushed the update on May 10th my settings were refreshed. Would be nice to have long-term storage of settings.
• (2024-03-25) ManiKanta Koppala: Love it
• (2023-12-13) Brandon Smith: Wow. Love this! Very effective productivity hack.
• (2023-12-04) mdb insurance agency: great app 🤍
• (2023-12-04) Benja: Love that you can hide all those irrelevant search results on the search page. I feel I need to scroll so much just to see what I'm looking for nowadays amongst the shorts and other randomly recommended videos
• (2023-12-04) Yifat Rubin: An easy to use tool where the page structure allows a quick navigation to what is that you want to see on the webpage
• (2023-12-03) Pepper Nguyen: Clean design, easy to use and effortlessly removes YouTube distractions. A must-have if you're looking to boost focus and productivity!
• (2023-12-02) Nathan Chang: Allows me to wipe the noisy stuff right off the screen!