# Tubeless

> YouTube, quieter. Independent toggles for Shorts, ads, recommendation shelves, end-screen cards, comments, sidebar clutter and more. Pure CSS, no tracking, no requests.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tubeless](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tubeless)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tubeless`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Steve
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 7
- **Version:** 2.3.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-23
- **First published:** 2026-05-02
- **Size:** 92 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tubeless/)
- **Website:** [https://git.scot/steve/tubeless](https://git.scot/steve/tubeless)

## Description

Tubeless hides the parts of YouTube you'd rather not see. Every toggle is independent, and one switch pauses the lot when you want plain YouTube back.

<strong>Sidebar:</strong> Shorts, Explore, "More from YouTube", and the "You" section (full, minimal or hidden).

<strong>Top bar:</strong> Create button, notifications bell, filter chips.

<strong>Home:</strong> all recommendation shelves, gaming shelves, event banners, alert &amp; promo banners, feed nudges.

<strong>Content types:</strong> Shorts, movies &amp; shows, community posts, Mixes, playlists &amp; podcasts, live streams, music videos, member-only videos, Premieres.

<strong>Watch page:</strong> action buttons (full or minimal), merch shelf, AI summary, live chat, fundraiser shelf, end-screen cards, description, comments, recommendations sidebar, Wikipedia/context panels.

<strong>Elsewhere:</strong> in-feed and overlay ads, survey popups.

Sensible defaults are on out of the box. Everything else lives in the toolbar popup.

<strong>How it works</strong>
One stylesheet, injected into <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/577585700e711c66b2f847e9c2ba66f07706960fe129e88008d23cb2a93a014c/http%3A//youtube.com" rel="nofollow">youtube.com</a>, hiding whatever you've switched off. No remote code, no network requests, no rewriting the page.

<strong>Privacy</strong>
No telemetry, no analytics, no tracking. The only permission is storage, used to sync your toggles via Firefox.

## Rankings

- #39,332 — Overall
- #227 — recommend

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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