YT Blinders

Reduces visual temptation and dopamine triggers on YouTube by greying out thumbnails or entire video and comment cards.

Regain focus and intentionality while using YouTube. YT Blinders is a lightweight, privacy-friendly Chrome extension that hides visual bait and dopamine triggers on YouTube without breaking the site's layout or your intentional viewing experience. Key Features: -------------------------------------------------- * Choose What to Hide on Each Page - Home Feed (/): mask recommendation cards before you start watching. - Search Results (/results): search results without clickbait thumbnails. - Related Videos (/watch sidebar): grey out the sidebar so you can't click into the next rabbit hole. - Comments (/watch comments): keep normal comments or grey out entire comment threads. * Granular Modes Per Surface : - Off: Normal YouTube display. - Grey Thumbnails: masks video thumbnails while leaving video titles - Grey Full Cards: blanks out the entire card or comment * Theme Matching - Placeholders automatically adapt to YouTube's native dark and light modes. * Opensource , Free, Zero Bloat, 100% Client-Side , - No background tracking, no remote scripts, no analytics. - Complete sourcecode availablle at https://github.com/sanathusk/yt-blinders <iframe width="1936" height="964" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lkllXHwkyKA" title="Browse YouTube Without Distractions (Chrome Extension)" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>