YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin

Chrome extension to liberate you from the infinite distraction cycle of YouTube.

YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Chrome Extension

'YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin' is a Chrome extension designed to improve the viewing experience on YouTube by eliminating potential distractions. It achieves this by hiding certain elements like recommendations, comments, and extraneous UI elements. Despite this, it doesn't compromise on vital features such as subscriptions, channel pages, playlists, and video stats. The aim of this extension is to give users the power to focus on the content they want to see, without succumbing to the platform's designed distractions.

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By: Samson Zhang

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.62

(37)

Version: 0.2.0 (Last updated: 2023-05-06)

Creation date: 2020-04-05

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Size: 32.83K

Email: he*****@samsonzhang.com

Ranking

# 22,860 ▼ 27

Other rankings

#1292 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 12 #42 in youtube keyword 95 ▲ 14 #185 in good keyword 48 ▲

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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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

User reviews

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Pros

Helps avoid endless cycle of videos
Reduces distractions on YouTube
Creates a cleaner YouTube experience
Essential for focused use of YouTube

Cons

Background color is too bright and lacks customization options
Not compatible with dark mode
Can disable important functions like transcript access
Some features seem to be buggy or non-functional

Most mentioned

Distraction reduction
Bright background
No dark mode support
Helpful for managing YouTube usage
Difficulty with customizing settings

User reviews

USELESS. I tried to apply it bas an ad blocker for YouTube (I cannot afford premium), and it made the YouTube home page completely blank. I couldn't adjust three settings, either. Maybe my laptop is out of date, but this app isn't good if you want to use it for annoying ad-free entertainment. I like to sleep with YouTube on, but not happy with loud, obnoxious game demos or sales pitches for businesses I have no interest in. I had Ad Block for a brief while, but it failed after that. Then I tried another, and Chrome claimed today that it had malware, so that, too is now gone. Meanwhile, ads on YouTube are worse than ever in quantity, and they do their best to keep pushing Premium. So not fair. I understand ads pay costs, but do not overdo it or insert them in the middle of a sentence or important message.