YouTube Control — Block Shorts, Hide Feed & Recommendations

Block YouTube Shorts, hide feeds & recommendations, blur thumbnails, dock comments, and customize your YouTube experience.

YouTube Control gives you 15+ tools to block distractions and customize every part of YouTube — from the home feed to the video player. ✦ BLOCK SHORTS & CLEAN YOUR FEED • Block YouTube Shorts — remove Shorts feeds, Shorts shelves, and Shorts tabs completely • Hide Home Feed — turn off video recommendations on the YouTube homepage • Hide Category Bar — remove filter chips (Trending, Music, Gaming, etc.) • Custom Grid Rows — choose 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 thumbnails per row • Clean Sidebar — hide Explore tabs, subscription lists, and "You" sections ✦ CUSTOMIZE YOUR WATCH EXPERIENCE • Dock Comments to Sidebar — read comments right next to the video, no scrolling • Sticky Video Player — keep the video pinned while you scroll through comments • Hide Related Videos — remove suggested video sidebar • Hide Comments & Live Chat — turn off comments and live chat entirely • Hide Stats & Buttons — remove view counts, like counts, and subscribe buttons ✦ VISUAL TOOLS & POWER FEATURES • Blur Thumbnails — soften thumbnails until hover to avoid clickbait • Black & White Mode — apply grayscale to YouTube while keeping videos in full color • Block Ambient Mode — disable glowing background effects (saves GPU power) • Video Screenshot — capture full-resolution video frames with one click • Mini Fullscreen — borderless window mode without hiding your browser tabs ✦ WHY YOUTUBE CONTROL? Unlike single-purpose Shorts blockers, YouTube Control lets you customize exactly which distractions to remove. Toggle each feature on or off — no all-or-nothing. ✦ PRIVACY FIRST YouTube Control runs 100% locally. Zero tracking. Zero data collection. Zero network requests. Your browsing stays private. ✦ OPEN SOURCE Fully open source and community-driven. Inspect the code, report bugs, or contribute: https://github.com/vishwa-vsr/YouTube-Control ✦ WORKS ON Chrome • Firefox • Edge