Superpower YouTube - Disable YouTube Shorts & Comments + Content Filter
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Make YouTube less distracting. Hide YouTube Shorts, comments, recommendations, autoplay, and block channels, keywords, and users.
Remove YouTube Shorts, recommendations, comments, autoplay, and other distractions. Use YouTube for learning, work, and research without falling into rabbit holes.
Superpower YouTube is a distraction-blocking extension that helps you create a cleaner, calmer, and more productive YouTube experience. Hide distracting sections, block unwanted YouTube channels, keywords, and users, export or import blocked items, start focus sessions, schedule distraction-free hours, and protect your settings from impulsive changes.
🔹 Learn more: https://spyoutube.app
✨ What Superpower YouTube can do
Free YouTube Controls:
• 🏠 Hide Home Feed — start YouTube with a cleaner page
• 🎬 Hide Shorts — remove Shorts from Home, Search, channel pages, and recommendations
• 📺 Redirect to My Subscriptions — go directly to channels you chose
• ⭐ Hide Most Relevant — remove the “Most relevant” section from Subscriptions
• 👁️ Hide Video View Count — reduce social proof and click pressure
• 🔎 Hide Explore — remove trending discovery pages
• 🎮 Hide Playables — hide YouTube games
• 📰 Hide Breaking News — remove news distractions
• 📚 Hide Sidebar — reduce visual clutter
• 🧭 Hide Recommendations — avoid “watch next” rabbit holes
• 🔚 Hide End Screen Feed — finish videos without more suggestions
• 💬 Hide Comments — avoid comment distractions
• 💬 Hide Live Chat — remove live chat distractions
• 🖼️ Hide Thumbnails — reduce clickbait
• 🌫️ Blur Thumbnails — make YouTube less visually addictive
• ⛔ Disable Autoplay — stop the next video from starting automatically
Advanced Content Filter:
• Block YouTube channels
• Block keywords from video titles
• Block users from comments
• Quickly block channels or users with Block buttons
• Export blocked channels, keywords, and users anytime
• Import blocked channels, keywords, and users
• Imported blocked items are merged with your current list, and duplicates are ignored
• Works across Home, Search, Watch pages, Related videos, and comments
• Protect Filters — choose an unblock click count to make blocked items harder to remove impulsively
Focus Mode:
• ⏱️ Focus Session — start a focus timer that automatically hides YouTube distractions
• 🕒 Recurring Session — schedule distraction-free YouTube during specific hours and days
🛡️ Protect YouTube Controls — make selected YouTube Controls harder to turn off
• ✍️ Require typing the distraction name before turning off a YouTube Control
• ⏳ Lock YouTube Controls for a set time period, such as 1 hour, until tomorrow, 3 days, or 7 days
• 🔒 Lock Settings — make distraction-blocking settings harder to change impulsively
💎 Free and Pro
Basic YouTube controls are free.
Pro tools are available with a 7-day free trial and include advanced controls like Content Filter, Import blocked items, Focus Session, Recurring Session, Protect Filters, Protect YouTube Controls, and Lock Settings.
See pricing: https://spyoutube.app/#pricing
💡 Why use Superpower YouTube?
YouTube does not provide a simple built-in way to fully remove Shorts, recommendations, autoplay, comments, and other distractions.
Superpower YouTube helps you use YouTube intentionally instead of getting pulled into endless feeds, clickbait thumbnails, and “just one more video” loops.
Use it for:
• Studying and learning
• Work and research
• Deep focus sessions
• Content creation
• Digital wellbeing
• Reducing time wasted on YouTube
🎯 Common use cases
Study and learning
Hide Shorts, recommendations, comments, and autoplay so lectures, tutorials, and educational videos stay front and center.
Work and research
Use YouTube for research without being pulled into unrelated videos, clickbait thumbnails, or endless recommendations.
Content creation
Keep your YouTube workspace cleaner by hiding distracting feeds, comments, recommendations, and visual noise.
Digital wellbeing
Reduce binge-watching and create calmer YouTube habits with scheduled focus sessions, autoplay blocking, and protected settings.
⏱️ Focus Session
Start a focus timer, such as 25 minutes of focus followed by a 5-minute break. During focus time, Superpower YouTube can automatically hide distractions like Home Feed, Shorts, Explore, Sidebar, Recommendations, End Screen Feed, and Autoplay.
🕒 Recurring Session
Choose specific days and hours when YouTube distractions should stay hidden automatically. For example, create a distraction-free YouTube setup during work hours, study time, or evening routines.
🛡️ Protect YouTube Controls
Use Protect YouTube Controls to make selected distractions harder to turn back on. You can require typing the distraction name before disabling a YouTube Control, or temporarily lock YouTube Controls for a set time period such as 1 hour, until tomorrow, 3 days, or 7 days.
🔐 Protect Filters
Use Protect Filters to make blocked channels, keywords, and users harder to unblock impulsively. Choose how many times you must click UNBLOCK before a blocked item is removed, helping protect your Content Filter from quick changes during moments of distraction.
🔒 Lock Settings
Use Lock Settings to protect your YouTube Controls with a password and make it harder to turn distractions back on impulsively.
🧭 Tips for a calmer YouTube
• Enable Hide Shorts + Hide Home Feed for a cleaner start
• Use Redirect to My Subscriptions to focus only on channels you chose
• Combine Disable Autoplay + Hide End Screen Feed to prevent “just one more video”
• Use Hide or Blur Thumbnails to reduce clickbait
• Use Content Filter to block distracting channels, keywords, and users
• Export your blocked items anytime as a backup
• Import blocked items to merge saved channels, keywords, and users with your current list
• Use Protect YouTube Controls to make it harder before turning distractions back on
• Use Focus Session or Recurring Session when you need YouTube for learning or work
👥 Who it’s for
• Students using YouTube for lectures, tutorials, and studying
• Professionals and researchers who want fewer distractions
• Creators who need a cleaner YouTube workspace
• Anyone who wants to stop wasting time on Shorts
• Anyone who wants to make YouTube less addictive and more intentional
Take control of YouTube. Keep the value. Remove the distractions.
Latest reviews
- Black Book
- Really useful tool
- Julian Gil
- 10 of 10
- Abu Sufian Chowdhury
- Excellent extension for Productivity. This really helped me to stay focused.10/10 Extention.
- KPKanaEvelyn15Ha17Pink26
- Excellent really love this extension works really good. For the YouTube options I think another thing you should add is to remove the experiencing interruptions pop up on YouTube.
- Shafia Mehdi
- Amazing extension! All the features are super cool and helpful. 10/10 recommend!
- Lailoma Nabizada
- Great extension and makes your work easier. highly recommended. Mehman is really helpful.
- Tarnish
- Very useful extension feature-wise, but not sure what it's doing in the background that results in much higer CPU and power usage for the web browser, and thus raising my CPU temperature from 46°C to 62°C when playing a Youtube video...might want to look into that.
- Kumar Anil
- the extention is ok but there are other options like unhook and neurofilter for premium users... i dont like the UI....
- Jason Wong
- Was really good to block end screen but now it's spamming the block button on every video and comment
- Jay
- This extension really helps me to stay productive. Exactly what I was looking for!
- RJ
- Extension might be great, but i instantly removed it, as soon as i saw, it's a 7-day trial extension.
- Oria Xu
- Great! Exactly what i needed! I dont want to see shorts, or live chats, or explore! If they would add a way to remove the "most relevant" section from the sub feed, it would be a perfect extension!!
- Svetlana M
- Works great, totally recommend it!
- Clément Jacquet
- Would be 5/5 stars if the blur disappears when the mouse is over the image ! Great extension, it should be in vanilla Youtube for sure !
- Marcus Junior
- Really good, exactly what you need to rewire your relationship with youtube.
- Chavez Carter
- Superpower YouTube is exactly what I’ve been needing. It hides YouTube Shorts, cleans up the home feed, and removes so many of the distractions that normally pull me in. My feed finally feels intentional instead of chaotic. The content filter works surprisingly well, and the focus timer has helped me stay disciplined when I’m using YouTube for learning or work. Instead of getting stuck in a rabbit hole, I actually stay on track. If you want more control over your YouTube experience less noise, more focus this app is absolutely worth it. It’s simple, powerful, and instantly made my screen time way more productive. Highly recommended!
- Ulduz Baghirova
- Great extension for focus and productivity! It hides Shorts, sidebars, and comments so I can watch YouTube without distractions. Also really useful as a light parental control tool — I can block Shorts and other clutter so kids don’t get pulled into endless scrolling. Simple, effective, and does exactly what it says.