Turn Off YouTube Comments & Live Chat

Turn off YouTube comments and hide YouTube live chat on videos.
What is Turn Off YouTube Comments & Live Chat?
"Turn Off YouTube Comments & Live Chat" is a Chrome extension allowing the user to turn off and hide comments and live chat on YouTube. This function also extends to mobile YouTube. The extension conveniently provides the user with the ability to still add comments, if desired, while hiding all other comments. Available on Firefox and Microsoft Edge as well.

Extension stats

Users: 4,000+
Rating: 4.43 (28)
Version: 1.0.6 (Last updated: 2023-01-02)
Creation date: 2021-02-15
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 13.15K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

Hide YouTube comments and/or live chat.

To hide comments while being able to add comments, uncheck "Hide Add Comment Box" and check "Hide Comments".

Compatible with mobile YouTube, m.youtube.com.

For more features including removing recommendations, comments, and more: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-youtube-rec/khncfooichmfjbepaaaebmommgaepoid

Turn Off YouTube Comments & Live Chat is also available on:

User reviews

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Pros
  • Works effectively to hide YouTube comments and live chat.
  • Helps create a more tolerable viewing experience by removing negativity.
  • Simple and easy to use.
  • Highly recommended for specific use cases, like gaming tournaments.
  • Provides a significant performance boost by stopping resource-intensive features.
Cons
  • Does not work on YouTube Shorts.
  • Leaves a large empty black box on the video in theater mode.
  • Interferes with ad blockers, allowing ads to show.
  • May cause glitches affecting video playback.
Most mentioned
  • Works perfectly
  • Removes toxicity from comments
  • Interferes with ad blockers
Recent reviews
by Niko Heinonen, 2024-09-08

doesnt work on shorts
by Hugh Perkins, 2024-08-18

by Alejandro Cotilla, 2024-07-03
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Turn Off YouTube Comments & Live Chat is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Turn Off YouTube Comments & Live Chat has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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