YouTube Recommendation Blocker

[OPEN SOURCE] Blocks YouTube recommendations on the front page and on the side of the video player, as well as the comments section

What is YouTube Recommendation Blocker?

The 'YouTube Recommendation Blocker' is a user-friendly Chrome extension designed to block YouTube's video recommendations and comments. Instead of completely removing the content, it hides it, ensuring the website's functionality remains unaffected. With a singular focus on YouTube, it requests permissions only for this site and functions without background scripts. Its open-source nature invites the community to contribute, enhance and troubleshoot issues collectively.

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By: Unknown

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.80 (5)

Version: 2.1 (Last updated: 2021-10-18)

Creation date: 2021-10-18

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Size: 3.65K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 26641 ▼ 7

Other rankings

#936 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 3 #7 in recommend keyword 26

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Summary

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This extension is a super light weight YouTube recommendations and comments blocker.

Stability not guaranteed!

Video recommendations on the front page and on the side of the player will be hidden, as well as the comments section.

It hides the content rather than outright removing it, ensuring that nothing breaks in the site's internal workings.

The extension will only request permissions for YouTube, and has no background scripts.

Yo @graphic designers please fix my graphics make a pull request on the git repo

The Github repo is here: https://github.com/Fishy-Fishes/yt-blocker

User reviews

Makes Youtube more or less unusable except for subscriptions, very helpful if you want to stop being distracted and wasting time surfing recommendations and comments.