YouTube Focus Mode

Chrome Extension that allows you to focus by blocking YouTube videos from 'distractive' categories.

What is YouTube Focus Mode?

"YouTube Focus Mode" is a Chrome extension targeted at enhancing your learning experience on YouTube. It allows you to selectively hide videos on your home feed, search results, and the sidebar that don't fall into the categories you've chosen. Thus, it ensures your focus stays on related content and you avoid falling into the YouTube rabbit hole.

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By: Saramsha Dotel

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.04 (23)

Version: 1.0.0 (Last updated: 2021-03-29)

Creation date: 2021-03-29

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Size: 177.15K

Email: do*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 23770 ▼ 94

Other rankings

#7033 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 27 #11 in focus keyword 12 ▲ 7 #228 in youtube keyword 89 ▲ 16

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Summary

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This chrome extension allows you to select the type of videos that you want to see in your YouTube feed and blocks/hides all other videos that do not belong to the selected categories. Most of the extensions block the entire feed and hide all recommendations which might not be what you want while studying or focusing on learning a topic. By selectively blocking the distracting videos only, this extension allows you to focus on what's important and prevents you from getting distracted into the YouTube rabbithole.

The extension currently works in 3 scenarios within YouTube:

Home Feed
Search Results
Video player and its accompanying recommendation column

User reviews

User reviews summary

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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 to stop mindlessly consuming videos
Saves a lot of time
Useful for filtering YouTube videos by category

Cons

Doesn't work for some users
Forces the sidebar to be hidden with no option to turn it off
Needs improvement in categorizing Science & Technology

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Saves a lot of time
Filtering YouTube videos by category

Recent reviews

Great extension, but needs password protection real bad. Or rather I need this add-on to be password protected, I can't trust myself that I won't simply turn it off.

banshee nocturno, 2024-01-16

Apparently it removes the recommendations from the sidebar & search but not from the home feed. Probably this one is related to certain bug for either new Chrome or Manifest V3. A bug fix for the app would be nice. Thanks.

Farhan Afnan Iskandar, 2024-01-09

It works perfectly (as of dec 11th)! This really stops me from mindlessly consuming videos. The only reason why it's not 5 stars: It would be really helpful if there was a separate category just for podcasts. The ‘People and Blogs’ category tends to include videos that aren’t exactly podcasts. Having a dedicated podcast category would make things a lot easier. Thanks so much for this extension!