Clean YouTube - Hide YouTube Shorts, Comments & Thumbnails
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- Extension status: Featured
YouTube enhancer. Remove YouTube shorts, recommended videos, thumbnails, comments and other distractions.
Clean YouTube is a browser extension that removes distractions from YouTube, including recommended videos, shorts, video suggestions at the end, comments, the homepage, the popular tab, disabling autoplay or annotations, and much more. Toggle settings via a pop-up window to personalize YouTube!
Focus on the YouTube content you love without distractions! Make your YouTube clean!
With Clean YouTube, you can:
đź’Ş Remove Distractions: Hide shorts, comments, and suggested videos that take away from your viewing pleasure.
🧩 Customize Your View: Use only one video player without any distracting elements on the page. Try a Clean Mode in which there is only a video player on the page.
Remove YouTube distractions and customize the user interface with options.
YouTube™ content blocker.
Features:
âś…Clean Mode - Show only Video Player on Page
âś…Black and White Mode
âś…Hide Home Feed
âś…Hide or Blur Thumbnails
âś…Hide Related (Recommended) Videos
âś…Hide Explore, Trending
âś…Hide Shorts
- Hide Shorts Tab
- Hide any Shorts Video
- Hide Shorts from Related Videos
âś…Hide Comments
âś…Hide Subscribe Button
âś…Hide Likes
âś…Hide Live Chat
âś…Hide Top Header Bar
- Hide Search Bar
- Hide Notifications
âś…Hide the Top Bar including Search Box
âś…Hide Subscriptions
âś…Disable Autoplay
âś…Disable End Screen Cards
Streamline your YouTube experience with Clean YouTube – the essential extension for a cleaner, more enjoyable video watching experience.
Feel free to contact me if you want to see any features in the next releases.
Extension doesn't track any information about you and does not send data anywhere.
YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
Latest reviews
- Anas Muhammed
- Great, but I gave it this rating because it hides the shorts, but I can search for them, and if I open them, I will hear a sound but no image.
- samian islam
- one of the most useful extension i have ever used. thanks to the legend who developed this. take love and respect ♥️
- SHU
- Best extension for students out there
- Moein Akhand
- Recommended for students
- Yusuf Elhiet
- amazing app
- Simone Tanda (Mag-ø)
- Amazing
- Zayn
- Best
- Frost Calibr
- Absolutely good. there are no extensions good enough and practicality to it like this
- Dayana Arroyo
- works like a charm, great job.
- James
- The home button only removes content from the home page, but the button is still present in the sidebar. If you remove the button, everything will be better. "Hide Thumbnails" button only works on table mode, doesn't work on list mode. If you remove the thumbnails from the “Save to Playlist” box, the extension will be PERFECT!
- Le Richardson
- Goated, so easy to set up and blocks yt shorts super well. Legit took me like 10 sec to set up
- Ruben Gonzalez-Grima
- Boom, 5 stars! This had exactly what I needed. Since YouTube's new interface update, I could no longer block end cards. Found this extension and saw it was updated this October, and what do you know, end cards blocked. Thanks Clean YouTube, such a useful tool!
- Naman Arya
- Best extension ever used, stopped me from distracting and focusing on lectures.
- MD Abdur Rhaman
- nice
- Thomas Anderson
- It actually works as intended (at this time 02.11.2025). Thank Chuck! Now I can finally rid myself of those annoying video end cards.
- Prajwal S Agnihothri
- Extremely good extension to control distraction & save internet usage.
- Leonardo Vicente Chaves
- the best outta here
- Timothy Smith
- Works! I was looking for something like this because sometimes I want to browse news, politics, and current events, but I don't want to be tempted to go down the peanut gallery (aka "comments") rabbit hole. Now, if there was a little switch to "prevent replies", that might be a nice middle ground. The biggest waste of time is me responding to the gallery. With this little app, it's like putting the cookie jar on the top shelf. Not high enough to prevent me from getting it. But just out of reach so I'm forced to make a choice if I want it or not. Kudos to the author =)
- Emmanuel
- Does the Job
- Tsurgeo1992
- Because of recent update on Yt I had to find a new adblocker. This one is working great so far.
- alwand
- i never write reviews but it's just peak
- Moshe Green
- love it
- Phil Lukeman
- Does exactly what it says. Saves sanity, allows me to *** just watching the videos I search for ** rather than distractions like algorithmic slop or dopamine-addiction shorts, allows me to hide comments from people! Developer responsive, updated when youtube changed. Recommend!
- Nader Rassam
- I installed this extension to hide me everything that distract me on YouTube, and it works very great! i can choose what i want to hide (shorts included) and i also can enable/disable the extension at any time. highly recommending for everyone. Feature suggestion: Add Show Dislikes option
- Muhammad aqib shehzad
- Best & Fast Extension
- Yogi
- best Absolute cinema, ytb becomes boring
- 1600 elo
- Absolute cinema
- Totemofnerd
- Excellent Extension. Does exactly what I want it to when I want it to. Would recommend.
- Sammie Kwiatkowski
- Flawless execution, even though shorts aren't hidden all the time (i.e. for search results) but it gets my main job done (hiding the search bar) so I cannot complain. one thing I'd suggest is password protection to make it harder to disable the settings I want there to be something for Google like this.
- عبدالرŘمن القط
- nice
- Demetrius Ricon
- 21/08/2025 - 100% Perfect !
- Nicholas Nge
- Hall of fame of extensions
- Daniel
- Best extension ever. Lol acc helps sm ty!!!!!!!
- Rohith Doradla
- When I turned on Hide Explore, Trending it is hiding More from YouTube section. Feature suggestion Add Remove Ads.
- Marcelino Sandroni
- MUST HAVE ON WORLD WITH EVERYTHING MADE TO STEAL YOUR ATTENTION (ITS UR LIVE TIME)
- Iris Cartwright
- Great way to focus.
- Markéta Koubová
- Enables a very customizable Youtube experience. I'd like to support the developer of this extension... I hope it doesn't end up being sold as one user below suggests.
- Arihant
- wow
- Ali Asanov
- Wow! Super useful and important extension. Nicely done.
- Fhox
- Solid
- Aditya Sharma
- Thanks a lot !! I literally become like a monk from 3 months of uses i reduced my screen time so much .right now i only see my laptop 20 minutes and i use it very much properly i start every feature and just change my work and in 20 minutes i only search 2 video`s topics from few trusted channel.
- Rakesh Datta
- Best way to focus on learning and stop getting distracted from anything else.
- James Johnston
- Great way to FOCUS! you may actually learn something if you use this instead of just doomscrolling
- Iamhated
- hides the search bar but leaves the space
- Chloe
- pretty good, I'd like an option to remove the create button pls
- Artyom Efimov
- Lifesaver with an amazing UI and customisation options
- Md. AshfakUzzaman Chowdhury
- Nice extension
- Gayatri Sahaay
- AWESOME
- Katie Lavender
- simple to use and effective.
- Neerada Lakvidu
- The developer and therefore extension is unreliable. Alex (the developer) recently sold one of his extensions (Web Activity Time Tracker) to shady actors who ended up getting that extension unlisted from the Chrome webstore due to their modifications. Alex did not provide any warning or indication to us users aside from editing the README file in his repository and his GitHub profile. The vast majority of people don't visit a Chrome extension's GitHub page or the developer's profile, let alone with any regularity to see the warnings that were added. What he did was not an acceptable method to communicate a major ownership change. This is unacceptable, dishonest, and scummy behavior, and I have uninstalled this extension due to it. I would recommend anyone else do the same lest this extension go down the same road.