YouTube Distraction Blocker

Hide YouTube Shorts and other distractions: home feed, recommendations, comments, end cards and more. Free, private, no tracking.

Take back your attention on YouTube. YouTube Distraction Blocker hides the parts of YouTube designed to keep you scrolling. Every item is its own switch, so you decide exactly what disappears. WHAT IT CAN HIDE - Shorts: in the home feed, search results, channel pages and the sidebar - Home feed recommendations - Related videos on the watch page - Comments - End cards and suggestions at the end of a video - Topic chips above the feed - Explore and Trending in the sidebar - Notification bell - Live chat - Promoted tiles and banners EXTRAS - Open Shorts links in the normal video player instead of the endless Shorts scroller - Turn off autoplay - Schedule: block only during set hours, for example work hours on weekdays - Allowed channels: keep Shorts from creators you actually like - Peek button: show everything for 5 minutes, then blocking returns - Counter showing how many Shorts were blocked today, in the last 7 days and all time, with an estimate of time saved - One master switch to turn everything on or off PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your device. Your settings and counts are stored locally in your browser. The extension does not collect, send or sell any data, and it has no analytics or ads. FREE Free to use, with no accounts and no upsells. If it helps you, you can buy the developer a coffee from the popup. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.