YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin
Chrome extension to liberate you from the infinite distraction cycle of YouTube.
What is YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin?
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Summary
Like other social media platforms, YouTube is very good at showing you content that you want to watch but weren't planning to or looking for, making it super easy to get distracted and get sucked into one video after another and suddenly lose an hour of your day. Yet there are so many valuable resources and videos that you can't find elsewhere: tutorials, event coverage, specific creators you subscribe to who you know always publish high-quality content worth watching. For many of us, the value of YouTube makes it worth the sacrifice of even its most distracting possibilities, and it's impossible to just cut away.
What if it didn't have to be this way? What if you could have the good of YouTube, see the content you want to see, without the platform constantly trying to drag your attention through an endless stream of productivity-draining drudgery?
This is the philosophy behind YouTube Liberation. It's time to rise up, lose your chains, and join us as we march our way towards a better YouTube!
YouTube Liberation works by hiding elements that lead you towards new content you don't intend to see, without compromising any core viewing features. These elements include:
- The entire home page of alg-generated recommendations
- Video recommendations on watch pages
- Comments sections on watch pages
- Extraneous UI elements, replacing the full sidebar with a much more minimal one and removing most topbar buttons
YouTube liberation does not at all compromise:
- Subscriptions and trending pages
- Channel pages
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Pros
- Helps avoid YouTube addiction
- Improves productivity
- Creates a cleaner, distraction-free YouTube experience
Cons
- No dark mode support
- Inability to open the transcript for a video
- Sidebar appearance issue
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- Helps avoid YouTube addiction
- Improves productivity
- Creates a cleaner, distraction-free YouTube experience
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Risk impact
YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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