# YouTube Hider — Stay Focused, Stay Free

> YouTube Hider – Take control of your YouTube! Hide Shorts, recommendations, comments, playlists, live chat, and even your Home feed. Focus on what matters and enjoy a cleaner, distraction-free experience.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-hider`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** BAKAR QURESHI
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 43
- **Weekly downloads:** 6
- **Rating:** 4.67 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-07
- **First published:** 2025-10-28
- **Size:** 36 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-hider/)
- **Website:** [https://bakarqureshi.netlify.app/](https://bakarqureshi.netlify.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-hider/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-hider/privacy/)

## Description

YouTube Hider lets you customize YouTube by hiding Shorts, Home feed, recommendations, comments, playlists, and live chat. Focus on the content you want and enjoy a cleaner, distraction-free viewing experience.

## Rankings

- #17,226 — Overall
- #2 — stayfree
- #13 — stay
- #109 — recommend
- #114 — focus
- #154 — free

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `tabs`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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