Study Mode: YouTube
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
Enhance your YouTube study sessions, no more distractions.
Study and reach better focus during your video browsing session by removing all distractions from YouTube - such as homepage videos, the notification badge, autoplay, sidebar recommended videos, and more. Increase productivity and never get lost in the sea of videos again!
This is an open-source browser extension, created to help you (and me!) with serious study/learning/focus sessions. The source code can be found on the chrome-official branch here: https://github.com/emdh-dev/study-mode-youtube/
Current Features:
-Remove all videos on YouTube's homepage.
-Remove the notifications bell.
-Remove sidebar videos (will also disable autoplay, the recommended video wall after a video ends, and will put the video in theater mode).
-Remove all comments.
Open this extension in Firefox browser's toolbar (same icon you see on this page) and select any option you wish to apply to your current tab of YouTube - you can apply as many options as you'd like! These options are only immediately applied to your current tab. If you want to apply these changes to any other tab or window with YouTube open, open this browser extension again (no need to re-select the checkboxes), and all changes will be immediately applied!
Unchecking any option will refresh the page you are on in order to restore the content that was originally there.
Permissions
User data is not maliciously accessed by this extension - I am a user of this extension too, and believe heavily in the protection of users' privacy and personal data.
Below is an explanation of permissions in Study Mode: YouTube, with definitions copied from Mozilla's developer page.
activeTab: If an extension has the activeTab permission, then when the user interacts with the extension, the extension is granted extra privileges for the active tab only.
activeTab is used in order to apply user-input changes to the current tab of YouTube.
localStorage is also used in this extension and is used to store the options you have selected in the extension for future access - both in new tabs, and in new windows. Access and retrieval of only these customization options are used.
Contact
I have put a lot of effort into this extension, however, you may encounter a bug or issue. If you do, please email me at [email protected] with the browser that you are using Study Mode: YouTube in, as well as a description of what is happening (and screenshot, if applicable).
My goal is to make this extension as useful as possible for every user, and your feedback will help greatly! Feel free to email me about any desired features you have and feedback about this extension - I'll be reading them all!
Additional features coming soon!
Latest reviews
- Sabare
- I have been using this extension quite a while now and its great. Recently, Youtube updated its UI and this extension is making things very buggy to use. Would be really helpful if you can check and update. Thank you.
- Pranjal
- Nice Stuff
- Abdullah Omar Sayeem
- Works as described.
- Surkhab Singh
- fabulous
- Auliya Ihza
- it works! thank youuuuu!
- Saswata Dev Thakur
- Very helpful and if you are seeing this Review than please you also write one down then only other will know
- Zafar B
- Works perfectly. Thank you for making this! (*‘ω‘ *)
- Kishlay Raj
- Thanks for making this I was searching this since a year
- Kishlay Raj
- Thanks for making this I was searching this since a year
- Divyanshu
- i cant thank you enough
- Divyanshu
- i cant thank you enough
- Nidhi Meda
- This thing is very helpful as the homepage is quite distracting when you open youtube for studying. So, just clicking the icon as soon as you open youtube prevents that major distraction. Perfectly solved my problem.
- Nidhi Meda
- This thing is very helpful as the homepage is quite distracting when you open youtube for studying. So, just clicking the icon as soon as you open youtube prevents that major distraction. Perfectly solved my problem.
- Jhon Decker
- It's great for students , thank you so much .
- Jhon Decker
- It's great for students , thank you so much .
- Osob Shil
- I really love this extension a lot! Every time that I go on Youtube (to try and watch something productive) I always get distracted by my recommended videos (especially as it's something YouTube knows I'd wanna watch 😫) But this extension has really helped the temptation. I love how it covers all the videos and the suggested videos at the bottom when I'm watching a video so I can really focus. I highly recommend this to anyone who has trouble focusing when being on YouTube.
- Nicolas Unger
- It works, but its a bit annoying that for it to work we have to click on the extension each time we open youtube. It would be cool that it works always, automatically when youtube is opened.
- Nicolas Unger
- It works, but its a bit annoying that for it to work we have to click on the extension each time we open youtube. It would be cool that it works always, automatically when youtube is opened.
- Tomáš Hrbek
- Not working for me.
- Tomáš Hrbek
- Not working for me.