# Disable Youtube comments

> Protect your sanity by disabling comments on any youtube video

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/disable-youtube-comments](https://chrome-stats.com/d/disable-youtube-comments)

## Overview

- **ID:** `disable-youtube-comments`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fernando Bartholomeu
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 90
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 4.75 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2020-09-30
- **First published:** 2020-09-29
- **Size:** 360 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/disable-youtube-comments/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/fernandobrscunha/disable-youtube-comments/issues](https://github.com/fernandobrscunha/disable-youtube-comments/issues)

## Description

**Disable YouTube Comments** is a Chrome extension designed to help you protect your sanity by hiding or disabling comments on any YouTube video. Users often encounter irrelevant or offensive remarks that can spoil the viewing experience or waste precious time in unnecessary debates. With this extension, you can choose to completely remove the comments section or display an illustration as a replacement.

The extension offers quick and simple toggling of comments visibility without needing to refresh the page, enhancing your browsing convenience. It is also open for improvement and translation contributions via its GitHub project page. Enjoy YouTube videos distraction-free and focus solely on the content you love.

## Rankings

- #12,217 — Overall
- #32 — disable
- #35 — comment
- #118 — commands
- #210 — protect

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/disable-youtube-comments)