YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin

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

What is YouTube Liberation: Anti-Distraction Skin?

'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

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.71 (34)

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:

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Size: 32.83K

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

Ranking

# 24155 ▼ 100

Other rankings

#1346 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 46 #57 in youtube keyword 82 ▲ 13 #186 in good keyword 21 ▲ 2

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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

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helps avoid distractions and endless video cycles.
Creates a cleaner and more focused YouTube experience.
Some users find it essential for studying and productivity.

Cons

Does not support dark mode, with a bright background.
Issues with sidebar appearance (e.g., being bugged or overlapping the view).
Lack of an option to enable/disable the extension easily.

Most mentioned

Background color is too bright.
Need for better sidebar management.
Helpful for reducing distractions.

Recent reviews

como eu pago um café pro criador dessa extensão????

Kalil Pires Lima, 2024-11-06

Watch History turned off, Return YouTube Dislike, SponsorBlock for YouTube, DeArrow, Youtube-shorts block, uBlock Origin and this. Finally, YouTube free from rabbit holes and nonsense <3 As of writing this, it appears the sidebar replacement is bugged and won't appear.

MajinTails, 2024-04-05

It really decimates the site, for a quick no non-sense, blunt and aggressively bleak as bleach and desert approach, like for when studying for exams, disciniplining your habits or lagged sleep, this might be IT. For me, I had to disable EVERYTHING, javascripts, CSS user styles, the cosmetic extensions and general overhaul like improved tube also borked: this app is as impartial as ruthless and a good in desperate time, this is a wartime extension equivalent