Focus for YouTube: Shorts & Channel Blocker

Hide Shorts and distractions on YouTube, block channels, or allow only the channels you pick.

Focus for YouTube helps you keep what is useful on YouTube and cut the rest. HIDE THE DISTRACTIONS • Shorts: removed from feeds, search results, channel pages and the menu. Shorts links open in the regular player. • Feed: hide the home feed, the topic chips and Mix playlists, or open Subscriptions instead of Home. • Video page: hide recommended videos, comments, the description, like and share buttons, end cards, info cards, live chat, the playlist panel and merch shelves. • Interface: hide the subscriptions list, the "Explore" and "More from YouTube" blocks or the whole sidebar, voice search and promo banners. • Autoplay: turned off. • Every switch is separate, and pointing at one shows a picture of exactly what it hides. • "Hide all" on each block (Feed and Shorts, Video page, Interface) switches the whole block on or off at once. • Presets: Minimal, Study or Maximum in one click. • Pause for 15 minutes or an hour, then everything switches back on by itself. MAKE YOUTUBE LESS TEMPTING • Black-and-white thumbnails: the covers go grey, so the feed stops shouting for your attention. The video itself keeps its colour. CHOOSE WHICH CHANNELS YOU SEE • Blocklist: hide the channels you don't want to see. • Allowlist: see only the channels you pick. Useful for study or work. Shorts from other channels are hidden too. • Add a channel by its URL, @handle or name, with the "Add to list" button on any video or channel page, or paste a whole list at once. • Add all the channels you subscribe to in one click. • Search, copy or clear your list at any time. • A blocked channel's page is covered and its video is paused. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no analytics, no ads. • Your settings and channel lists stay in your browser. • Minimal permissions: browser storage, access to youtube.com, and the active tab only while the popup is open. GOOD TO KNOW • YouTube changes its page layout often. If something stops working after a YouTube update, please tell us through the support link. • The interface is available in English and Russian and follows your browser language. Focus for YouTube is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. Support: kirgoldman1@gmail.com