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Chrome extension to liberate you from the infinite distraction cycle of YouTube.
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Like other social media platforms, YouTube is very good at showing you content that you want to watch but weren't planning to or looking for, making it super easy to get distracted and get sucked into one video after another and suddenly lose an hour of your day. Yet there are so many valuable resources and videos that you can't find elsewhere: tutorials, event coverage, specific creators you subscribe to who you know always publish high-quality content worth watching. For many of us, the value of YouTube makes it worth the sacrifice of even its most distracting possibilities, and it's impossible to just cut away.
What if it didn't have to be this way? What if you could have the good of YouTube, see the content you want to see, without the platform constantly trying to drag your attention through an endless stream of productivity-draining drudgery?
This is the philosophy behind YouTube Liberation. It's time to rise up, lose your chains, and join us as we march our way towards a better YouTube!
YouTube Liberation works by hiding elements that lead you towards new content you don't intend to see, without compromising any core viewing features. These elements include:
- The entire home page of alg-generated recommendations
- Video recommendations on watch pages
- Comments sections on watch pages
- Extraneous UI elements, replacing the full sidebar with a much more minimal one and removing most topbar buttons
YouTube liberation does not at all compromise:
- Subscriptions and trending pages
- Channel pages
- Playlists
- Video stats, description, etc.
What are considered vital core features and what are considered distracting elements varies from use case to use case and person to person. For certain kinds of videos, comments might be more constructive than distracting. For creators, notifications and easy access to uploading might be important (though that's why YouTube Studio exists...). Thus, one feature I'm working on adding right now is the ability to customize what gets hidden and what is shown, with a recommended configuration as it is right now.
Latest reviews
- (2023-06-18) Alejandro Rios-Cristaldo: It really decimates the site, for a quick no non-sense, blunt and aggressively bleak as bleach and desert approach, like for when studying for exams, disciniplining your habits or lagged sleep, this might be IT. For me, I had to disable EVERYTHING, javascripts, CSS user styles, the cosmetic extensions and general overhaul like improved tube also borked: this app is as impartial as ruthless and a good in desperate time, this is a wartime extension equivalent
- (2023-05-01) cortes jeremy: Good but no dark mod support, the background is pure white.
- (2022-10-27) Sunil S: Background colour is too bright, could have given option to choose background colour.
- (2022-10-25) Hüseyin Cahit Burduroğlu: It needs a 'disable/enable extension' button. Sometimes all we need is some distraction.
- (2022-08-07) Temur Soliev: I love this extention!
- (2022-05-07) haider: an essential for me
- (2022-04-21) Marcuz Pinkman: Beautiful, perfect. You don't miss any of the tools you need for common youtube usage, but it cleans all of the trash that youtube puts on your screen to make you a clicker. The extension creates a totally new experience from using youtube that just feels like the way youtube always should have been.
- (2022-03-22) Hudson Hopper: So good! one of my favorite chrome plug-ins. Goodbye youtube black holes
- (2021-08-25) Eshan Dixit: It felt like a prison the first day, but boy this is helpful!
- (2021-06-17) Abhishek Tiwari: This is an amazing application. Has really helped me avoid watching endless cycle of videos.
- (2021-04-19) Luka Labudović: The best one so far.
- (2021-02-23) S. R.: This is really helpful, one thing that's kind of annoying is that you can't open the transcript for a video which I usually use to take notes, but other than that it completely cuts down YouTube time.
- (2021-02-20) joyful soul: Almost perfect. Can u please fix sidebar appearance (now it cant be hidden, and overlaps the view)?
- (2021-02-10) Paul Dunahoo: Excellent. YouTube is so much better now! I do have an issue where the video time control doesn't work properly unless the video player is put into theater mode, but other than that it is perfect.
- (2020-12-22) Connor Howard: With the well designed anti-distraction skin, this extension offers, I have been able to bring my youtube viewing time down from a matter of hours each day to what is typically 10-20 minutes. Having curbed my youtube addiction, I feel better mentally and physically (yes, lying down in bed all day watching videos isn't good for your back). Also, because I am watching less, I value the content I happen to watch more. Thank-you developer of this extension. After a month and a half of using your extention, I am much more productive and am enjoying a higher quality of life.
- (2020-11-30) Emmanuel Addey: GREAT SO FAR. Say goodbye to my youtube addiction
- (2020-10-11) Theoshaphat: Love it! It'd be great if you could remove the access to the trending page too.
- (2020-09-21) Gersivan Oliveira: Muito útil.
- (2020-09-14) Blake Stewart: I never write reviews or anything but this thing has just skyrocketed my creativity and allowed me to do things that I couldn't get to before. Amazing. The YouTube recommendation system is SO GOOD at making you watch for way too long-- the only videos I have now are ones of engineering (which I recommend unsubscribing from anyone unproductive) and also I have a playlist of nice rain noises. Thank you so much for making this.
- (2020-08-11) Лапшинов Вячеслав: Nice work, but i can't work without PocketTube: Youtube Subscription Manager on a sidebar.
- (2020-07-08) Mark Bennett: Great extension, I love how it centres the content in the middle of the screen. Lots of love was put into this and I'm hugely appreciative. It's definitely helped prevent me from falling into the endless rabbit hole that YouTube actively enables.
- (2020-04-13) Ben Fu: I owe my own existence to the one who birthed and raised this beautiful stallion of a productivity app.
- (2019-11-06) Irura Nyiha: Very nice. My productivity has spiked because of this wonderful creation. Whoever programmed this is a genius; absolutely stunning work!
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1,000
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Rating
4.7059 (34 votes)
Last update / version
2023-05-06 / 0.2.0
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