# YouTube Control: Shorts Blocker & Hide Feed

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

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-control`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** vishwa-vsr
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 32
- **Weekly downloads:** 9
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1.5.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-04
- **First published:** 2026-07-15
- **Size:** 128 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-control/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/vishwa-vsr/YouTube-Control](https://github.com/vishwa-vsr/YouTube-Control)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-control/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-control/privacy/)

## Description

<strong>YouTube Control</strong> 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.

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

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:
<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/8727654dcef632f47f89bcf8ca2e68b13ceb478d1209e9d9c097a542fb99f115/https%3A//github.com/vishwa-vsr/YouTube-Control" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vishwa-vsr/YouTube-Control</a>

## Rankings

- #19,790 — Overall
- #83 — adblock for youtube
- #91 — youtube shorts
- #120 — recommend
- #184 — control
- #205 — self control

## 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 has recently changed publisher email (might be a transfer in ownership)

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