UnTrap for YouTube
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AI ಬಳಸಿ YouTube ವೀಡಿಯೊಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಕ್ಷಿಪ್ತಗೊಳಿಸಿ ಮತ್ತು ಶಾರ್ಟ್ಸ್, ಜಾಹೀರಾತುಗಳು, ಕಾಮೆಂಟ್ಗಳನ್ನು ಅಡಗಿಸಿ.
🎯 Shape YouTube the way you want
This extension is designed for people who want real youtube customization, not just cosmetic tweaks.
It helps improve youtube experience through thoughtful youtube tweaks, turning everyday watching into a better youtube experience without overload.
As a flexible youtube enhancer, it combines clarity, control, and powerful features in one place — making it a strong youtube enhancer alternative for mindful users.
🎬 Shorts & scrolling, without the trap
Short-form content is one of the biggest causes of scrolling addiction.
This extension gives you clear shorts control, so Shorts don’t hijack your attention.
You can:
* remove shorts or hide youtube shorts entirely
* disable infinite shorts scroll to stop endless loops
* redirect shorts to standard video player for calmer viewing
* apply shorts control without breaking recommendations
🧹 Clean interface, fewer distractions
Instead of fighting YouTube’s UI, you decide what belongs on your screen.
You can:
* hide ads banners and hide premium upsell
* remove notifications and hide suggested videos
* disable comments or deactivate comments
* hide remix button to reduce visual triggers
This helps reduce visual noise and restore clarity.
🤖 AI tools to watch less, understand more
Smart AI features help you get value faster.
Key capabilities:
* youtube video summary to summarize youtube videos
* video key points and key insights extraction
* youtube transcript tool with flexible transcript options
* expand transcript and expand video description
* top comments overview and translate video summaries
🧠 Focus & ADHD-friendly by design
Built for minimal youtube usage and gentle habit change.
It supports:
* mindful viewing and mindful consumption
* a minimalist layout and calm interface
* digital detox without extreme restrictions
Helps reduce overstimulation, support attention support, and build deep focus.
⏱️ Time awareness & productivity
Stay intentional instead of losing hours.
You can:
* set a youtube time limit
* use watch time reminders
* review time saved analytics
* improve time management
Especially useful for people dealing with youtube addiction.
🎛️ Player & playback, upgraded
Advanced youtube video player control for comfort and flexibility.
Playback tools include:
* boost youtube volume and increase volume
* playback speed control and player size control
* frame by frame playback and rich video playback features
* shuffle playlist and watch playlists in reverse
Visual comfort via adjust brightness and video filters.
🎨 Layout, UI & themes
Make YouTube feel like your space.
Options include:
* always use theater mode and full size theater mode
* restore old youtube layout or legacy list style
* youtube themes and youtube minimal mode
* hide channel banners and hide channel watermark
* disable ambient lighting for calmer viewing
All wrapped in a clean, consistent clean design.
🛡️ Advanced filtering & safer viewing
Control recommendations and visibility.
You can:
* block inappropriate content and block videos
* restrict content with youtube restriction
* block channels, mute channels, or pause channel trailers
* use regex blocking and block topics
* apply full youtube content control and youtube parental control
⚙️ Automation & power features
Reduce friction and impulsive clicks.
Includes:
* autoplay control, autoplay off, and reset autoplay
* delay youtube opening to break habits
* keyboard hotkeys and overwrite youtube shortcuts
* auto fullscreen and auto-enable full screen
* consistent sound via always use original audio
All powered by flexible automation.
🔒 Privacy, performance & trust
Built as a lightweight youtube extension.
Core principles:
* no tracking and full offline privacy
* performance gains with force h.264, disable hdr, disable hover effects, sdr mode, avoid 60fps
* secure preferences and password-protected settings
* compatible with other extensions
* maintained as a non-profit extension and open source youtube extension
🌍 Across devices & platforms
Works smoothly across environments:
* embedded video playback
* background playback
* full mobile youtube support
A flexible youtube enhancer alternative for modern workflows.
Latest reviews
- Khang
- Nice extension with the lastest updates
- Jordan
- Awesome. This is what i want
- sarmad aziz
- Hi, thanks for the app, have been using it for a while. Where can i report a small bug? When i go to "left navigation bar" and have 'hide subscription section' toggled on, it also hides the library section as of recent. I reinstalled it again, but the issue persists. Im on windows 10, using chrome.
- Youri Post
- Fantastic!
- Dead Scrub
- The extension is great! Also can you please add the option to block shorts on the search page as well.
- Ислам Берсаев
- Perfect
- Bach Dien Than Kuan
- Exactly what I need for a simply youtube player, no mix playlist, no distract. Five star (y)
- Lily McCann-Klausz
- Absolutely love this extension and all the customization!! Can you guys make an update that hides the AI summary as well as the video suggestions when you swipe up?
- Nikolas Virintzakis
- Amazing, insane amount of options
- Mossab Rabah
- This is amazing !!! Thanks!
- Yasmien
- I have been enjoying this app for 3 months now. However, for some reason, all of my enabled commands--except rows--work. The view counts (on the homepage) are seen, shorts (on the homepage) are seen, and the video thumbnails remain as what the creator has intended to show (despite the command to show the start of the video instead). I assume there will be an update underway, but I am only here to inform others, if ever they have the same issues with the extension. -- Will be waiting for the fix, creator. Please continue this wonderful work. Have a great day.
- Nopi (노피)
- Not working
- Th3FlyingShark
- This is what youtube premium could have been
- Oleg Tarkov
- Awesome extension, probably one of the GOATs. But for the past month or two it no longer hides watched videos on subscription page along with some other minor stuff. Hiding watched videos is one of the biggest quality of life changes and I hope it gets fixed some time soon!
- Sophie
- a really good extension for youtube and it does what it says! unfortunately, i cannot recommend it as for other pages (might just be other google products?) it will sometimes make it so the page dosnt fully load, and as someone who uses google docs ALOT, this is bad. This problem isnt even one that is that hard to fix! just give the extension like 5 lines of code to check if the user is on youtube, and then if they arnt, disable the extension if this problem gets resolved, my review will be a 4 or 5, but until then, i cannot recommend
- Kainaris Alzabaar
- Most useful extension right alongside AdGuard I did notice something annoying though: My videos now start muted for some reason?? And I always have to enable sound and restart the video. I don't think I chose that in the settings.
- Contribute
- must have
- Amul Star
- Please give an option to hide "Members Only" videos from recommendations and search results.
- Anthony McNeil
- A definite 5 stars. I slowly want to get away from social media. I found myself mindlessly scrolling through YouTube Shorts. This app gives so much customization. It was clear that alot of thought and love went into this app. I essentially disabled everything on YouTube, so when I watch a video, I cannot click on anything or watch more videos. Shoutout to "easy, actually" for recommending this app. If anyone struggles with mindless scrolling please use this extension.
- Hark
- It's good but it slows youtube down to a crawl, even if I turn the ad blocking off.
- Dan Moody
- Fantastic app - no more shorts. The time I wasted on those damn things
- Dark Ninja
- amazing app
- milchhuhn
- Doesnt work 🤷
- Vasiliy
- Godsend. Finally get rid of shorts once and forall.
- Kaveri V
- someone put a lot of love into this
- lycorish
- THIS EXTENSION IS AWESOME!!! Helped reduce my addiction to YouTube
- Akash rohit
- Best App Ever
- Amazing Ameya
- The *Explore* section isn’t hiding even after enabling the option. Please fix this—would really appreciate it!
- Bryce Knudtson
- I love this extension. I think the one issue I have isn't really their fault at all. It's because every time YouTube makes changes to the site, certain toggles stop working. I have almost everything turned off (toggled on in the extension), so it's pretty obvious when certain elements have stopped working. It's an unfortunate downside, but I don't think there's anything that can be done about it. Still love it though!
- Mykola Kovalenko
- Wait, where did grayscale previews option go? After the last update all previews are now in color. I really liked that feature. I hope the dev(s) will consider returning it soon :(
- Bruno
- It's good, I do ont use most of the features since I just wanted to block channels, it doesn't block in some parts of the website so make sure to turn off suggestions categories as well, if you want a way to block channels and make youtube a good experience it is very useful, if wasn't extensions like that I would stopped using it a few years ago, at least I can watch it on desktop without their horrible recommendations.
- Rafiq Ibayev
- I think there's a bug that removes channels' profile pics even though I didn't activate that toggle. It does it even though I turn off the extension (from its own menu). The only way to make profile pics appear is disabling the extension from chrome's extensions menu.
- Moustafa Ahmed
- it is so helpful but now it doesn't hide shorts when you search for something in the results there is shorts
- zack b
- it was really good, but for some reason it stopped working for me
- Pranav Srivatsav
- So often I find myself forgetting what i actually came to youtube for, with all the recommendations in the home page. By hiding the home page, related videos, it makes using youtube so much more intentional. I love it. Even the tool settings pop up is designed so well with categories, allowing us to explore the addon and change things easily. Hopefully it is maintained well, I would definitely buy this, if it is.
- Abhishek Kumar
- Best extension ever.
- Keegan Mackey
- Awesome and perfect and very customizable, helped me quickly overcome my YouTube addiction. They had an outage or something weird recently, but it's the only time I've noticed it during my several months of using it. Highly recommend.
- Kevin Rooney
- Heard great things and was excited to check it out. Installed it, turned on "Summary" and went to a video. Clicked on the new summary link and was prompted to sign up. Did so. Was sent a confirmation email. Entered the code. Got a "Something went wrong. Try again." message. Clicked "Try again" multiple times and it just reloaded the same message (did not even get a "send again" option). Deleted extension. Complete waste of time and now they have my email address.
- ImprovedTube for YouTube
- Hi guys, an impressive amount of work!! ...If you are a (social-)business, with a budget and not the programmer, then you might think "This could be okay on the long-term". If you have not served / retained many users before, it might simply seems meaningful or exciting without a sustainable plan. But if you are the developer, you will/should feel pain from thinking of the other developers in the world doing this same 'too patient'-/sisyphus-task (relatively high maintenance) for no particular reason, which is certainly underpaying most of us few and mostly abandon-ware* - so this is: "Merge or Quit" - Let us know, thanks! *(Making developers run sooner than they thought. in very few cases ensuring maintenance to the users and a permanent (minimum-)salary to the developers, at the cost of reducing installations to just a few (when paid). (+Our GitHub To-Do lists must have been impacting your developer's life and i feel guilty for that too)
- ol
- Incredibly well-featured
- TurkeyBoy
- Pretty good
- Plad Nagys
- Can't believe this is free damn! Although some of the labels could be clearer (e.g. what is the right sidebar? Honestly I don't care to figure that out), this is still amazing. Thanks
- krishna
- The new Summary button looks cool but why does it messes up "buttons under video player" elements row? This extension does make yt pages load slower which I think has been improved a little bit in the latest update. Overall this extension has lot of potential & lot of bugs too... for e.g. the Shorts Page & Embed Videos section where some of the toggles don't work. Also devs please be updated with the latest UI changes in the yt web app, that's the last thing I want to say.
- Lisa diKaprio
- can't live without it
- MCWrxcked
- Bro, it loads too slowly and it lags sometimes. I'll come back when its stable enough, sorry.
- Bikram Agarwal
- Dang... that other reviewer wasn't kidding. Every single YT page took quite a while to load. Stuff were visibly loading in chunks! Can't use it in such a state.
- Hayden Macpherson
- Best extension since AdBlock.
- Ruben Reviewz
- I've been using this chrome extensions for a year now, and is honestly revolutionized how I work. I like watching YouTube, just not the other stuff that pops up and trying to grab your attention.
- Ginger Boi
- Please help me change this to a 5 star review. Update: Removal and reinstallation fixed the issue now I have another issue. Video Card settings don't work on the Home Page for some reason.
- Ronnie
- best extension I ever came across but recently its stop working on hiding short, plz look into this matter.