Just the Video for YouTube™

Bring back the 2017–19 layout and choose which Shorts, shelves, and recommendations you see.

YouTube, the way you want it. Just the Video removes the clutter YouTube keeps adding and, if you like, brings back the classic 2017–19 look. CHOOSE WHAT YOU SEE • Shorts: shelves, search results, the sidebar entry and the channel tab. Shorts links open in the normal player. • Mixes, category pills, search-page extras (news, topic and podcast shelves, community posts, chapter lists). • Watched videos and the whole home feed (both off until you turn them on). • AI features and voice search: Ask buttons, AI summaries, the microphone. • Premium promotion and YouTube's other products: Playables, "More from YouTube", Explore, paid movies. • End screens, info cards, shopping shelves and the Thanks button. • Recommended videos beside the player (off until you turn it on). Most switches work place by place: hide Shorts on Home but keep them on channel pages, for example. THE CLASSIC LOOK (OPTIONAL) • The 2017–19 layout: square thumbnails, a flat header, the rectangular search box and the old sidebar icons. • The classic watch page: views and the exact upload date under the title, the red SUBSCRIBE button, the description under the channel. • The classic video player, without ambient mode. • Choose how many videos per row on Home and Subscriptions. • Optional dislike counts from Return YouTube Dislike (estimates; asks for permission first). SMALL THINGS THAT ADD UP • Channel links open on the Videos tab. • Your playback speed is remembered across videos and tabs. • Tracking tags are removed from the address bar, so copied links are clean. • Pick a video codec for older hardware or battery life. HOW IT WORKS Unwanted items are removed from YouTube's own data before the page is built, so they never appear, not even for a moment. Every switch can be turned off, and the extension's own switch turns everything off at once. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Settings stay in your browser. The extension checks once a day for updated rules (a small public file on GitHub), and only if you turn on dislike counts does it ask Return YouTube Dislike for the counts of the video you are watching. Ads are not this extension's job: keep using your ad blocker. Just the Video works alongside it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.