YouTube Clean: Block Shorts, Hide Recommendations, Skip Ads | Focus

Block Shorts, hide recommendations, comments and ads on YouTube. 60+ toggles for a clean, distraction free, focused YouTube.

Block YouTube Shorts, hide recommendations, skip ads and remove everything else that pulls your attention away. YouTube Clean turns YouTube into a calm, distraction free space you actually control. 60+ toggles, one side panel, instant results. Free, open source, no account, no tracking, no data collection. WHAT YOU CAN HIDE OR BLOCK • Shorts: home feed, search results, sidebar, channel pages, Shorts menu item • Recommendations: home feed, watch page sidebar, end screen cards • Ads: video ads skipped automatically, ad banners, sponsored feed videos • Comments and live chat • Mixes, playlists, Trending, Explore and News • Merch and ticket shelves, channel banners and trailers • Hover auto preview and bloated video descriptions • Sidebar: hide it completely or item by item • Header: voice search, virtual keyboard, search tags, upload, notifications • Search results: related searches, info cards, channel shelves BLOCK YOUTUBE SHORTS AND ENDLESS SCROLLING Short videos are the biggest attention trap on YouTube. YouTube Clean removes Shorts from the home feed, search results, sidebar and channel pages, so a quick visit does not turn into an hour of scrolling. Prefer to keep Shorts? Use the dedicated Shorts speed control and turn off auto advance, so one Short stays one Short instead of an infinite feed. HIDE YOUTUBE RECOMMENDATIONS AND FEED CLUTTER You decide what stays and what goes. Hide recommended videos, mixes and playlists, comments, live chat, end screen cards, merch and ticket shelves, notifications and Trending sections. Cut visual noise further: turn off hover auto preview, hide channel banners and trailers, and strip the description down to what you actually read. SKIP YOUTUBE ADS AND SPONSORED CONTENT Video ads are skipped automatically as soon as the Skip button appears. Ad banners, sponsored feed videos and promo info panels are hidden from the feed and the watch page, so browsing stays uninterrupted. DISTRACTION FREE YOUTUBE FOR FOCUS AND STUDY YouTube Clean is a gentle focus tool, not an aggressive blocker. Nothing is removed until you ask for it, and a calm side panel keeps every control one click away: no accounts, no dashboards, no nagging reminders. Many people use it as a lightweight digital detox tool for YouTube, built around control instead of restriction. ONE CLICK PRESETS: LIGHT, BALANCED, CUSTOM Start from a ready made preset. Light for a gentle cleanup, Balanced for a focused setup, or build your own Custom profile toggle by toggle. Switch presets when you move between work and downtime, so YouTube is a tool when you need one and stays out of the way when you do not. COMPACT LAYOUT: MORE VIDEOS PER SCREEN Compact mode turns the home feed, search results and watch page recommendations into a tidy list or grid. Less scrolling, more results per screen, and a layout that finally respects large monitors. PLAYBACK SPEED SLIDER AND CLEANER PLAYER Fine tune playback with a speed slider right inside the player, including a separate speed control for Shorts. Clean up the player by hiding the miniplayer, theater and subtitle buttons, and turn off the autoplay switch so the next video never starts on its own. CLEAN SEARCH, HEADER AND SIDEBAR Simplify the top bar by hiding voice search, the virtual keyboard, search tags, the upload button and notifications. Trim the left sidebar down to essentials, or hide it entirely, including You, History, Playlists, Watch Later, Liked videos, Subscriptions, Explore, Trending, Music, Live, Gaming, News, Sports, Premium, YouTube Music, Kids, Studio and the footer. Clean up search results too: related searches, info cards and channel shelves. WHO USES YOUTUBE CLEAN • Students and researchers who need YouTube for lectures, not for Shorts • Developers and writers who watch tutorials during deep work • Language learners using the playback speed slider on long form videos • Parents who want a calmer YouTube on a shared computer • Anyone doing a digital detox who still needs YouTube for real work OPEN SOURCE, LIGHTWEIGHT AND PRIVATE YouTube Clean is fully open source and built on Manifest V3. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, no data collection. Your settings stay in your browser. Read the code, report an issue or request a feature on GitHub. FAQ Does it block YouTube Shorts completely? Yes. Shorts can be removed from the home feed, search, sidebar, channel pages and the left menu. You can also keep Shorts and just disable auto advance. Does it remove YouTube ads? Video ads are skipped automatically as soon as they become skippable, and ad banners, sponsored feed videos and promo panels are hidden. It is a YouTube cleanup tool, not a network level ad blocker. Will the rest of YouTube keep working? Yes. Every feature is off by default and opt in. Nothing changes until you turn a toggle on, and turning it off restores YouTube instantly. Does it collect my data? No. There is no account, no server and no analytics. Settings are stored locally in your browser. Which browsers are supported? Chrome and Opera, across the whole site: home feed, search, watch page, channels and the player. YouTube adapts to you, not the other way around. Source code, issues and feature requests: https://github.com/lenadweb/yt-clean