Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended & Shorts
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Hide YouTube related videos, shorts, comments, suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending, and other distractions.
A browser extension to remove YouTube distractions, including the recommended sidebar, shorts, endscreen video suggestions, user comments, homepage related videos feed, trending tab, turn off autoplay or annotations, and more. Toggle the options through the popup to customize your own YouTube experience!
Compatible with mobile YouTube, m.youtube.com, through Firefox on Android. Also works on video embeds.
Request a feature: https://forms.gle/eJTVhmGtG5zp6YQE7
Unhook YouTube is available as an add-on for:
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-recommended-videos/
- Microsoft Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/unhook-remove-youtube-r/hebpjnnclppdnfghdnmhgdljmjpfhggk
If you find Unhook useful, please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/unhook
OPTIONS:
- Hide Homepage Feed
- Hide Video Sidebar
- Hide Recommended (Related Videos)
- Hide Live Chat
- Hide Playlist
- Hide YouTube Shorts
- Hide End Screen Videowall
- Hide End Screen Cards
- Hide Comments
- Hide Mix Radio Playlists
- Hide Merch, Tickets, Offers
- Hide Video Info
- Hide Video Buttons Bar (share, likes, dislikes)
- Hide Channel (profile + subscribe button)
- Hide Video Description
- Hide Top Header
- Hide Notification Bell
- Hide Irrelevant Search Results ("Related to your search", "Latest from", "Searches related to", "People also search for", etc.)
- Hide Explore and Trending
- Hide More from YouTube
- Hide and Redirect Subscriptions
- Disable Autoplay
- Disable Annotations
YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
Latest reviews
- Husan
- Great browser extension! Helps me to focus on necessary video on youtube. Definitely recommend.
- CertifiedBehavioralScientistNYUAlumni
- THE BEST EXTENSION IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. It is very reliable and 100% does exactly what it promised plus says in the overview. THANK YOU SO MUCH DEVELOPER FOR CREATING THIS EXTREMELY HELPFUL AND AMAZING EXTENSION.
- Jatin Hooda
- Thankyou for making this
- Alex
- It seems to somewhat work. I wanted to remove the Livechat on streams and VODs, and while it does remove them. it still crams half the video onto the left of my monitor in Fullscreen.
- Chris D'Andrea
- Unfortunately the reason I downloaded this doesn't work. I wanted to remove the Shorts from Chrome. Shorts on a PC are about as dumb as you can get so I since I don't suffer from VVS I wanted them to stop taking up search results. Unfortunately this doesn't do it. Despite having the option checked. The only feature that I wanted this for.
- Ruben Santuryan
- Best extension ever. 100% free. Secure. Has dark mode. Minimalistic. Awesome UI/UX. Easy to understand. And you can hide almost anything on YouTube. For example, I disabled everything I could including the Shorts tab, Home feed, Subscriptions, etc., and only left the search bar so that I can use YouTube intentionally instead of wasting time on random videos of Home or Shorts. Highly recommend it to every person on this planet regardless of who you are or what you do. It's a no brainer. A must-have. Just install it, IT TAKES LESS THAN A MINUTE TO FIGURE IT OUT.
- Rishab Kapadia
- Guaranteed Productivity. Thank you for building this. 🤩
- Emerson
- This might have saved my life
- bob bob
- Similar to RYS, just not as many features, but it's truly free, not subscription slop
- Nehal Bansal
- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. It really does help!
- Sepehr Mohammadi najafabadi
- it's the only youtube extension that actually works without messing with ui
- Jim Hubbard
- Fan-f***ing-tastic!
- Ray
- Absolutely fantastic. Everyone needs this. Especially for vulnerable family members and kids. The best extension ever.
- Harshit Taneja
- One of the most useful chrome extensions. Protect your Mindspace, attention and time using this app EASILY!
- Ryan Payne
- Works great!
- JD Farrell
- Great application, works well paired with another youtube extension. Small bug as of 3/1/2026 on Brave browser. Hiding the "Explore, Trending" hides the "You" section instead.
- VVindicator
- amazing extension. it works. it's effective. now i don't have to get hooked by my recommendations all the time LOL
- Kenny Liu
- nice
- Roberto Ferraro
- thank you!!
- Shripad Khandare
- This is perfect. and far better than DF-tube. Thanks a lot.
- Prabh class 9 And AGAM class 4 Singh
- best extension for disctraction on yt...whish i could give 10/5
- Thomas Østby
- Exactly what I was looking for!
- Titmf
- perfect
- [SN]PianXtremeYT
- Way better than DF tube. DF tube can suck it, Unhook is way better
- Lahdia BADDY
- thank you so much
- Darin Char
- perfect productivity tool
- Michael L.
- Does everything as promised without any fee (looking at you DF Youtube)
- Omor Howladar nadim
- Thanks you so much devloper team, It's really Helping my daily life
- Uttam Phulwari
- Reaally helpful and excellent solution for remove distractions
- Talga B
- The best Addon I've ever used! Thank your team!!!
- Ramit Layek
- Great!
- Waleed Khan
- Unhook is honestly one of the best extensions I’ve ever installed. It completely changed how I use YouTube. I always wanted YouTube to be a tool for learning, not just endless scrolling and distractions. This extension actually makes that possible. It removes all the noise and helps me stay focused on what I came there for. It genuinely feels like a brain detox. I’d love to support or contribute more someday. For now, the least I can do is leave this comment and say thank you — this has made a real difference for me. 🙌
- Muhammad Abdullah
- Couldn't recommend more!
- Shafy Shahyd
- For those who want to mindfully use youtube.
- Sujeet Verma
- w extension work great no problem yet
- Dylan Catterall
- Does what it says, do be do daaaa
- instinct87
- Super App!!!
- shaikh
- best one to use without distractions
- C T
- does what it says it does and I also really like the settings UI, way more than other extensions'. it's clean, legible, but also modern.
- Rishu Karn
- very good for students
- Annika Ocampo
- helped me learn blender within a week . very wonderful
- khadijatul kubra
- this is really worth to use it. I was fully procastinated by youtube but now I got a way
- Alic3 F0x
- Works. Thank you kindly.
- Auzuru
- The Endscreen removal doesn't work since multiple months, im not sure if anyone will every fix it. But else pretty good app
- Bruddabiz
- Great Stuff
- Nesrine bioud
- this extension helps me stay focused
- cub
- no matter how I have my settings, the end screen still shows recommendations, the one thing I want to kill
- Dhruv Raj
- within minutes i realised a ton of difference, phew !!!! wish i had stumbled upon unhook long time back
- just a random guy
- goated
- Muhammad Ali
- The best app to remove distraction on work and take authority on your life!