A Chrome extension that blocks YouTube distractions such as the homepage and watch next videos list while allowing all other functionality.
I use Brave browser's content filters for most similar restrictions, but these it does not currently provide. I could just download some existing Chrome extension for this, but that's a potential security risk and with AI making creating your own extensions so easy, I decided to maintain my own for this use case.
This extension will not be uploaded to the Chrome Web Store, because that would defeat the purpose and you should just use something more powerful and reputable like Unhook or uBlock Origin. But if you want to add this yourself as well, you can do so by following the steps below.
- Clone or download this repository to your machine.
- Open your Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc.) and navigate to
chrome://extensions. - Enable Developer mode using the toggle in the top-right corner.
- Click Load unpacked and select the folder containing this repository.
- The extension is now active. Visit
youtube.comto verify the homepage is blocked.
To update after pulling new changes, return to chrome://extensions and click the reload icon on the extension card.
Videos on the subscriptions page can be hidden based on co-creator channel names. Click the extension icon to open the popup, then add channel names to the blocklist. Any video that lists a blocked channel name in its metadata will be hidden from /feed/subscriptions.
MIT, see LICENSE.