YouTube Clean — Hide Shorts, Remove Recommendations, Focus & Detox

Hide YouTube Shorts, recommendations, ads and clutter. 60+ toggles for a clean, distraction-free YouTube built for focus.

# YouTube Clean — Hide Shorts, Remove Recommendations, Focus & Detox Make YouTube quieter, cleaner, and easier to focus on. YouTube Clean turns YouTube into a calm, intentional space you actually control. It removes the things that pull attention away — Shorts, recommendations, ads, comments, and interface clutter — so you can watch what you came for and leave. YouTube Clean gives you 60+ toggles that let you fully customize how YouTube looks and behaves — from feed layout and content cleanup to player controls, playback speed, and focus presets. Every feature is opt-in, applies instantly, and can be turned off just as fast. 🧩 Shorts & endless scrolling, under control Short videos are one of the biggest attention traps online. YouTube Clean lets you remove Shorts from the home feed, search results, sidebar, and channel pages, so a quick visit doesn't turn into an hour of scrolling. Prefer to keep them? Use the dedicated Shorts speed control and disable auto-advance, so one Short stays one Short. 🧹 Clean YouTube, less noise Decide what stays and what goes. Remove recommendations, mixes and playlists, comments, live chat, end screen cards, merch and ticket shelves, notifications, and trending sections when they pull attention away. Reduce visual noise by turning off hover auto-preview, hiding channel banners and trailers, and stripping the description down to what you actually read. 🚫 Fewer ads, fewer interruptions Video ads are skipped automatically as soon as they can be skipped. Ad banners, sponsored feed videos, and promo info panels are hidden from the feed and watch page, so browsing stays uninterrupted. 🧠 A calmer focus experience 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. Many people use it as a lightweight digital detox tool for YouTube: focused on control, not restriction. ⏱ Productivity & intentional watching 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 don't. 📐 Compact layout that fits more on 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. 🎥 Player & playback, upgraded Fine-tune playback with a speed slider right in the player. Clean up player controls by hiding the miniplayer, theater and subtitle buttons, and turn off the autoplay switch so the next video never starts on its own. 🔎 Search, header & sidebar cleanup 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. 🔓 Open source, lightweight & private YouTube Clean is fully open source. No accounts, no tracking, no data collection — your settings stay in your browser. Read the code, report an issue, or request a feature on GitHub. 🌍 Works where you watch YouTube Clean runs on Chrome and Opera and works across the whole site: home feed, search, watch page, channels, and the player. YouTube adapts to you — not the other way around. Perfect for studying, deep work, research, language learning, lectures, tutorials, and long-form viewing. Source code, issues, and feature requests: https://github.com/lenadweb/yt-clean