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Description from extension meta
Hide YouTube related videos, shorts, comments, suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending, and other distractions.
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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
- (2025-09-03) Asim Adhikari: works great - thank you!
- (2025-09-03) Erin Conner: Wow, very impressive, stunning. I love having just the video play on the page, it will really help me focus on the video with my ADHD!
- (2025-09-02) makhlouf mimoun: Perfect
- (2025-09-01) Mafia Szkolna: Perfect
- (2025-08-31) Go Ahead, Make My Day: For some reason I can still see shorts when I search up something in the search bar even though I have them deactivated in the plug-in. Anyone else have this problem? Otherwise, one of the greatest chrome extensions of all time.
- (2025-08-31) Zach Gault: Works as stated but did not have the feature I was looking for. Now even when uninstalled my recommended videos is gone. Going to have to reinstall my browser ffs.
- (2025-08-31) TANMAY ARORA: Best productivity booster extension
- (2025-08-30) Saisha: loved it god bless the creator of unhook
- (2025-08-30) John: I just installed the app and I can already tell it's going to be a huge productivity boost by helping me to not get distracted when using YouTube.
- (2025-08-29) athulvara: absolutely necessary to stay focused in a distracted world!
- (2025-08-28) Kinda Alqassem: i just opened it and its fire that will help me focus than you
- (2025-08-27) Paul Updike: This makes youtube not terrible. I would pay for this.
- (2025-08-26) Piotr Bakal: 26/08/25 - addon makes youtube main page not loading properly.
- (2025-08-26) Lucas Nunes Garcia: Amazing... Config for all you'll need and make it just as you want, doesn't break youtube layout or make it slow. Just a great extension.
- (2025-08-25) First Name Last Name: Hey guys, I really love the extension! I just wanted to report a bug. The "Remove comments" option doesn't hide the comments sections on YouTube Shorts videos. Just wanted to let you know. Other than that, the extension is awesome!
- (2025-08-23) hamdiye: perfect
- (2025-08-22) Stefan Tapu: Thanks! it helps me a lot.
- (2025-08-21) Eslam Mohamed: amazing app
- (2025-08-20) senura chamod: One of the most wanted extension to avoid Youtube junk distractions. This enables us to stay focus what we want to do in Youtube. Otherwise you'll controlled by the Google. Highly recommended Extension.
- (2025-08-20) Raja Sidda: the best extension for to clear all distractions while learning from youtube
- (2025-08-19) Isaiah Reno: thanks so much! makes watching class-related videos distraction free, and I feel more free and dedicated using it!
- (2025-08-19) LABRADOR: thank you for this great tool!
- (2025-08-19) Genchi: it hides Shorts in the search results, thank you I have found peace of mind...
- (2025-08-19) Ninja H2: removed my distraction thankyou so much now i can watch what is needed
- (2025-08-19) Yury Kostyuk: THANK YOU!!! kill shorts
- (2025-08-18) A.: I love Unhook!!!! Thank you for designing this extension.
- (2025-08-16) Daniel Fernandes: Works very reliably and greatly improves my quality of life experience on YouTube.
- (2025-08-15) Setmer Akimov: Thank you so much! Amazing app helps me a lot! Best whishes!
- (2025-08-13) Dd Promto: This removed not just shorts but ALL videos, gave me an empty youtube screen
- (2025-08-11) Eddie Z: Absolutely essential! This extension needs to be pre-installed on every web browser.
- (2025-08-07) MmdPC: Does what it says without any problem :)
- (2025-08-07) Abedha: Best app . contains all the feature to prevent us from doom scrolling youtube. The developer also provides multiple customization which is very helpful. Thanks for such a wonderful app
- (2025-08-07) Fuad: Good extension. Would love to have the option to block "Upcoming" and "Scheduled" videos from showing on feed before they are available to watch.
- (2025-08-06) जोहान: Only ONE issue and its annoying one since its the only reason i got this; when you try to disable shorts they still show up on YT but only when u click on them theyre inaccessible. PLS FIX
- (2025-08-05) Filip Macho: when installed, embedded videos on other sites don't load, cannot be played... It basically only works for YT site directly.
- (2025-08-05) xavi xavi: Honesly lowk good ahd cool.
- (2025-08-05) vikash kumar: It's really an amazing extension. saving and keeping unclutteredness and unconfused. I really thank to the developer and i just wanted to check if it's open source or not because maybe chrome could take it down.
- (2025-08-03) Ivan Alcolea: W Extension
- (2025-08-03) Tushar shete: Loved it.
- (2025-08-03) Raj Choudhary: best extension in the world
- (2025-08-01) Faisal H.: i don't have a smart phone and im using laptop all day long, literally i was commenting on other vidoes wating for notification so i can reply them, catchy thumbnails all gone thank you developer there no thing better than that, and now i can foucs on my studies
- (2025-08-01) Ankit Yadav: loveeeee ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt thankyouuuu now finally my one and only distraction has been removed bcz i watch lectures on yt this is what i wanted
- (2025-07-31) MANAV SABOO: The best part is that it doesn't ask you for any money, and you can access all their features FREE of cost
- (2025-07-31) ASAEL DUARTE SALAZAR: Really cool extension, helped me to not get too addicted to youtube and study more :)
- (2025-07-30) Richa Singh: I can still see shorts on the search screen even though I have enabled 'hide shorts'. Please fix this.
- (2025-07-29) Maroulis George - Panos: It works as it claims ! Thanks !
- (2025-07-27) -MrJones-: Hello, Need an update for new Youtube UI.
- (2025-07-27) Dudo 111: Just goooood
- (2025-07-26) Aryan Mishra: Life saving extension.
- (2025-07-24) Mohammad Reza Naddaf: Exactly what I wanted 👌 This saves me a lot of time, keep me focused and helps me choose what to watch easier than before 👍 You are a hero in a way, because unfortunately most people like to be addicted to unwanted content and let the media owners control their minds! Keep it up; I wish you the best, my friends ✌