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
- Hhhf 6638d
- Helps to focus
- Denys Bazyliak
- hi, so I wanted to notify that for some reason "end screen feed" and "end screen cards" features do not work for me. So let me know whether I do something wrong. I will look forward to your reply.
- Angelo E
- Amazing extension, makes using YT so much better and has made me much more productive in not falling for the YT doom scrolling trap! They need something like this for the phone app
- Yash Raj
- perfect
- Arjun Kushwaha
- love it
- Neha Nakhare
- LIFE CHANGING, THANK YOU!!!
- Terry He (何天宇)
- Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this. The core of YouTube is such an amazing thing. Much better experience without the attention sinks.
- James Sweet
- Thank you!!!
- Alexandro Malosso
- top
- Jonathan Allsman
- Super helpful!
- Nafis Mahmud
- great
- Beyond Basics
- Best Extension for who watch classes on Youtube.
- Alexander Diaz
- Bless
- Mahmudul Hasan Nayeem
- this was all i want .... thank you for regaining my focus
- Emin Arifov
- Truly amazing app, it has everything it needs, and a small suggestion like time limit will complete it fully.
- Other Work
- Works just as it says. Bravo!!! just hide explore button doesn't work, everything else is perfect. Thank You very much, really appreciate the effort....
- Vinski Koskimaa
- Can hide youtube's recommendations and more, and is as customizable as possible. Does everything I hoped it would, perfectly.
- mjc0961
- Needs to be updated for the latest YouTube layout changes. The "Hide Explore, Trending" option hides the "You" section but does not hide the "Explore" section. Was working great until it fell behind YouTube's changes.
- Adam Kozłowski
- Top
- Brandon Jones
- One of the most useful extensions out there|
- Gregory Huebner
- Just found this, amazing!
- Kaleb
- hiding end screens feature is not working
- Islombek Hasan
- I want this everywhere - all my browsers, my phone, tablets. What an OG extension, thank you so much!
- Simon Wagner
- The app works, except it also blocks the ability to tweak the video speed, the whole video speed menu becomes blocked, making it kinda unusable.
- Mato Ma
- Great app！
- Sachi
- This the bomb fr >:D
- Boi
- Great app, but can you add an option to remove the Youtube Games?
- Zachary Maas
- Turns Youtube into a helpful search engine rather than a blackhole of distractions and thumbnails. I only see what I search for and I only watch what I've searched! It saves so much time from falling down a pit of distractions and allows me to enjoy the site without feeling manipulated by it. I wish I knew about this extension a long time ago. Feel silly for only searching for something like this recently.
- Uğur Damar (ugurdamar0)
- Great app. Helps fighting with getting distracted often which is a huge issue of today.
- Seonkee Kim
- This is true innovation and a life-saver. No more hastling with distractions.
- Edwin Chukwudi
- Nice!!! Cleaned up my mind and eyes.
- 92 Latham Gretchens
- I wouldn't use YouTube without this extension.
- Matthew Dunn
- I'd give it higher, except for . . . : Youtube places all sorts of junk "recommended" videos into a created Playlist. This add-on seems to give no way to remove that. So, it's good -- but, not as good I'd like it to be.
- WayoniGodz
- its fantastic for removing distractions
- 31 Rihaan Nazir 9D
- Can be customized to fit your needs. Simply amazing
- Rishi Dhruva B
- It works..
- rashmi virajitha
- awesome tool
- Sera K
- incredible, I truly can't thank this feature enough, I ALWAYS get hooked into doom scrolling shorts. its like youtube before tiktok.
- A.L. YMR
- please fix the end screen feed, still some garbage shows up every time a clip ends! other than that great extension to stay way from banality in the YTB!!!
- John “Johnny” Google
- Please fix for the new end-screen feed. Also "hide profile photos" no longer works.
- DONNA MARIA ARROJADO
- such a goated extension fr fr
- FabioFPS
- Everything working, just one thing, in a video with live chat that is blocked, when you use fullscreen it still show the space where the chat was, but as a black canvas with the video disloged to the side.
- Dan E (דן)
- Doesn't work anymore after YouTube changed some things
- Andrea Dobrica
- just downloaded this and can already tell it will help massively
- Sathish Kumar S
- Excellent and very useful extension, I love it. It helps me stay focused by removing distractions. One request to the developers: Shorts still appear in search results along with full-length videos. A complete removal of Shorts would make this unbeatable. Tip for users: I pair this with ProdYouctivity to block Shorts entirely. Highly recommended for anyone want to use Youtube mindfully.
- Prod. Syrxp
- So thankful for this option, going into 2026 without social media and YouTube recommendations will help me not waste hours. Thank you!
- Dania Botello
- great for detoxing or preventing scrolling :)
- Rick H
- My main interest was in disabling live chat, in particular in full screen. I use Chrome browser. I have a livestream playlist of 200+ rail cams. I want the chat box to not pop up at all, when switching channels, in full screen mode. Tried the app and it worked one time, for 7 seconds. Then worked as app did not exist. Thanks for the effort.
- Romy
- amazing
- HHH
- Hi. I gave it a 5 star but there should be a small change that has to be made. Change: If I search for something then youtube shorts actually appear even if I turned it off. Shorts wont appear on homepage but if I search something the shorts and the videos both appear in search results. Please try to make this change if possible.