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
- Aleksey Midenkov
- Hide shorts is broken now.
- Mary Blakely Heuer
- I downloaded this two year ago and it has saved days (or probably weeks) of my life!!!
- KIRAN
- If you open a million YouTube tabs and watch none, this extension saves your sanity.
- Iamhated
- broken- it would be nice to see all this non-working **** purged so we don't have to try endless extensions just to find one that works
- _1oktamjonov__
- 5starts if u add shortcut :)
- Omar Alkhateeb
- thank you < this extension saved me days even months life saver really
- Theo Ballew
- Like marq said: Was working great when it did. It needs to be updated. Currently, it's showing suggested videos after one is finished playing. Will update review once it's fixed.
- Orlando Neroski
- Hey this extension is great, but YouTube somehow screw your product. suggestion still show up at the end of video!
- marq
- Was working great when it did. It needs to be updated. Currently, it's showing suggested videos after one is finished playing. Will update review once it's fixed.
- Daniel Gorm Andersen
- worked instantly
- hong luu
- Love it
- Stefano petrini
- It hasn't removed suggested videos for a few weeks now.
- Seven hundred thousand Nineteen thousand
- Who ever made this is a legend
- SmarterTanEveryday
- end screen recommendation cannot be blockeed. please fix it
- Mohammed.
- Recently, end-screen video suggestions have started appearing even though I have both options “Hide End Screen Cards & Feed” enabled.
- Ángel
- Now I can study without distractions. Really good!!
- Clementine
- I give my biggest applause to you developer, I can see how much psychological thought went into this. Pairing that with your programming skills to develop a project like this is very plausible. :)
- Bobby Jones
- Productivity increased dramatically when using my personal account to browse academic videos. No more random YouTube drama pestering me in the corner of my eye.
- Y C CHANNEL
- I am really flattered as i saw the hide shorts option for which i am giving it a 5 star. no recomendation is greeat but no shorts is absolutely outstanding feature i was seeking for.
- Abigail Loghry
- This extension is so simple and so effective! I love the clean look of just watching the video I clicked on through my google search, with no clutter or distractions or temptations. It's so amazing that this is free and has no ads! Also, it's very customizable as far as what you do and don't want to see, and so easy and simple to adjust. No extra features, just a very effective and easy product.
- Sevda
- an amazing extension! love the efficacy!
- Shreeram
- Been working good so far, Now that since youtube has updated, need an update for the recommended screens which comes below the video in full screen for Chrome PC
- Martin Berisso
- Amazing. Useful. Great.
- Michael J Beninate
- Youtube knows me. It knows what I like and will feed to me more of what I like. Adding Unhook helps me to not partake in everything that I like to the detriment of my time. I will turn Unhook off if I am searching for reviews and information about a product or topic. When I do that, it is clear to see just how much time Unhook saves me. All of the things that Youtube serves to me return. This extension was mentioned in a comment section of a video. I'm glad that person mentioned it. I write about it at times in other comments that I make so others can be freed too.
- Kunj Bihari Pandit
- Excellent extension as it allows users to customise exactly what they need on their youtube page.
- Sanjana Sharma
- Absolutely amazing, much needed extension. It blocks all things shown on your youtube (except subscriptions and other basic settings). You come to a blank slate, bringing back agency to choose what you want to watch and you directly search for it. Super grateful for this extension.
- Vishal Shrivastav
- plz update, and remove element with class = "ytp-fullscreen-grid"
- Dan Nichols
- Phenomenal It is not blocking youtube Shorts anymore, would love an update for 2025 to fix this. From a grateful donor, will be glad to donate again.
- Luiz M
- Legal
- Aleksandar Borisov
- The last YouTube redesign does break it especially by creating some unnecessary white space.
- Giorgio (GiorgioMaXv)
- works well and does what it says it does
- Aaron M.
- Great extension but is no longer hiding shorts in my search feeds so it needs an update. Had to install another extension just to get rid of shorts in my searches.
- Magomed Ibragimov
- ENDSCREENS have appeared recently, please update the extension
- shivam kumar
- At this moment i am a student cant donate money , but this extension is exceptionally very good. In the near future i would be very happy to donate . keep it up guys , and pllsss keep it free for those who cant afford to pay .
- Edward Passagi
- this is great
- Kaan Kibritçi
- we need uptade. some features dont work with the new youtube version.
- Ariyan Rahman
- one of the best extention i ever seen!!!!!!
- Taktaagic
- I can't thank this extension enough for improving YouTube for me. I like using a lot of things things with as little distractions as possible, and this does exactly what I want and more! The only issue right now is that, probably because of the recent YouTube update, endscreens aren't being disabled anymore, so hopefully that can get fixed.
- Yahrite Fohb
- Was greeted with cringe end card clickbait thumbnails today. Please fix.
- Peter Jensen
- dosen´t hide endscreens!!
- Fisk Lundgreen
- I sometimes have university classes link to YouTube videos for assignments or use YouTube to find quick tutorials for research. I discovered, looking at my watch history that the recommended videos would distract me and suck me into the YouTube vortex after watching the class or instructional video. This simple and easy-to-use extension makes YouTube a simple video player rather than a soul/time sucking monster when my limited will power eventually fails to refuse the temptation to watch those perfected tailored selections of videos. This is a real quality of life improvement! Thanks!
- K M
- its awesome but lately some features have not been working correctly; shorts are no longer being blocked and the end screen recommendations have popped up now. i think youtube is slowly coding around this extension.
- J Barron
- Rating five stars for years of reliable service, but seems to no longer work with YouTube's latest update.
- neeru bhardwaj
- Have been using this for a while now, and I got no complaints. Simple GUI, no excess cosmetics, and does what it should be used for.
- H D
- Pretty good, has a lot of features. I find however that Hide Irrelevant Search Results doesn't seem to work as YT still peppers in random videos in between genuine search results. Also, would it be possible to add a feature to block specific buttons like Clip? Or change the button layout so all are displayed by default. YT keeps changing this, sometimes the Save button is immediately displayed, sometimes it's hidden in the ··· additional menu. Thank you
- Ryan Kaczur
- shorts still appear in search
- Justė Venclovaitė
- It helps so much
- Methshan Witharana
- Finally an extension that actually does what it is supposed to
- Danish Family
- works well , does the job
- Pabriv
- Please add a Hide Members content button, to hide all videos for Members only, its very annoying when YouTube pushes members content when you are not a member,