YouTube Control: Shorts Blocker & Hide Feed

Name: YouTube Control: Shorts Blocker & Hide Feed
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: vishwa-vsr

Block YouTube Shorts, hide feeds & recommendations, blur thumbnails, dock comments, and customize your YouTube experience.

Overview

Firefox Add-ons Store

Daily users

31 ▲ 2

Data as of 2026-09-06

Rating:

5.00

(3)

Version:

1.1.5.6

Last updated: 2026-09-04

Features & Capabilities

YouTube Control is a all-in-one browser extension designed to help you reclaim your focus and create a distraction-free viewing experience on YouTube.

Instead of installing multiple add-ons to hide feeds, block shorts, blur thumbnails, and dock comments, YouTube Control bundles all these features into a single, clean dashboard.

Feed & Navigation Control:
Hide Home Feed: Remove the recommended video grid on the homepage to prevent click-traps.
Hide Shorts & Playables: Remove the distracting Shorts feed and mini-games completely.
Hide Explore Panel: Remove trending and film links from the sidebar.
Hide Subscriptions & 'You' Sections: Clean up your sidebar by hiding channel lists and playlists.
Watch Experience Enhancements:
Hide Recommended Videos: Block the sidebar suggestions list on video pages.
Hide Comments & Chat: Disable comments and live chat boxes.
Hide Buttons & Stats: Hide subscribe buttons, likes count, and views count to focus purely on content.
Hide Top Header: Hide the search bar and header navigation.
Visual Styling & Detox:
Blur Thumbnails: Soften thumbnail images until you hover your mouse over them, stopping clickbait visual traps.
Black & White Mode: Apply a calm grayscale filter to YouTube's elements (keeping the video player in full color).
Block Ambient Mode: Disable the player's glowing background to save computer power and battery.
Premium Layouts & Utilities:
Dock Comments to Sidebar: Move the comments section next to the video player so you can read discussions side-by-side without scrolling.
Sticky Video Player: Keep the video player pinned at the top-right of your screen while you scroll comments.
Video Screenshot Button: Capture clean, full-resolution video frames instantly with a single click.
Mini Fullscreen Mode: Watch videos in window borderless mode.

YouTube Control operates 100% locally on your computer. We do not collect, track, or share any personal data or browsing history. No data ever leaves your device.

This extension is fully open-source! You can inspect, contribute to, or clone the source code on our GitHub page: https://github.com/vishwa-vsr/YouTube-Control

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

1.1.5.6 Last updated: 2026-09-04

Version code:

6462055

Creation date:

2026-07-15

Firefox add-on GUID:

youtubefocusflow@vibe-coding

Firefox add-on numeric ID:

3039225

Weekly download count:

Firefox on Android:

Risk:

Permissions:

storage

Content scripts matches:

*.youtube.com

Size:

127.93KB

Email:

ex*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-06

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 20,159 ▲ 366

Other rankings

#84 in adblock for youtube keyword 66 ▼ 1#93 in youtube shorts keyword 49 #122 in recommend keyword 33 ▲ 4#188 in control keyword 42 ▼ 1#207 in self control keyword 29 ▼ 3

Other platforms

YouTube Control — Block Shorts, Hide Feed & Recommendations (v1.1.5.6)

462 5.00

(2)

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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.

Developed by:

vishwa-vsr

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-control/

Email:

ex*****@gmail.com

Website:

https://github.com/vishwa-vsr/YouTube-Control

Publisher Change History

2026-08-25: fo*****@gmail.com to ex*****@gmail.com

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User Reviews

Came here to say that this add on is absolutely perfect! ❤️ appreciate you creating this so i dont need to leave the video into pip mode which shrinks the video. Focus mode also works.

by mi*****, 2026-07-28

Отличное расширение и главное удобное для ютуба. теперь комменты легче читать

by Ni*****, 2026-07-25

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Is YouTube Control: Shorts Blocker & Hide Feed Safe?

Risk impact

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YouTube Control: Shorts Blocker & Hide Feed requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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YouTube Control: Shorts Blocker & Hide Feed is recently added, and hasn't been around long enough for us to gather enough data to accurately assess its risk level.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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