# Hide recommendations for youtube video

> Hides recommendation section on youtube.com

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hide-recommendations-youtube`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Liviu Iancu
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-02-24
- **First published:** 2025-02-23
- **Size:** 9.81 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hide-recommendations-youtube/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/LiviuLvu/firefox-plugin-prevent-doom-scroll](https://github.com/LiviuLvu/firefox-plugin-prevent-doom-scroll)

## Description

Firefox plugin - Hide YouTube sections

Hides given tags from DOM HTML view.  

Goal:

Small experiment to observe the effect of hiding recommendation sections and stop doom scrolling.

Hoping to see the following effects:
- Save Time
- Prevent loss of focus from original task
- Search for new content based more on deep thougt and internal motivation.

Key tools:

MutationObserver
Javascript

## Rankings

- #95,204 — Overall
- #45 — recommend

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/hide-recommendations-youtube)