Focus Mode for YouTube: Hide Shorts por Nima Sh

Watch the video you came for. The rest stays tucked away.

Focus Mode for YouTube hides the parts of YouTube that pull you away from what you came to watch. Each part has its own switch, so you keep what you like.

🙈 What it can tuck away
On the video page:
• Related videos: the "Up next" column beside the player. The video moves to the center; playlists, live chat and transcripts stay.
• End screen: the cards and suggestion grid at the end of a video.
• Comments
• Description: the box under the title, with views and date.
On Home and across YouTube:
• Shorts: rows of Shorts, single Shorts in search and under videos, and the Shorts menu entry.
• Explore: the Explore section of the left menu and the "Explore more topics" row.

⏸ Pause when you want YouTube as usual
Master has three settings: On, Pause and Off. Pause for 15 minutes, 1 hour or until tomorrow morning, and it comes back by itself.

A quiet corner badge shows what's tucked away, with a one-click pause. It stays dim until you hover it, and you can switch it off.

The popup shows a small map of the video page and of Home. Tap a tile, or the area on the map, to tuck it away or bring it back.

🔒 Safe by design
• Its only permission is saving its own settings (storage).
• It runs only on www.youtube.com.
• No network requests, no tracking, no analytics. Nothing is collected.
• The hiding is plain CSS, applied before YouTube draws the page, so nothing flashes.
• Open source (MIT). You can read every line and check it with the safety checker: https://aenimaa.github.io/focus-mode-for-youtube/tools/safety-check.html

The browser shows "Read and change your data on www.youtube.com" for any extension that changes how a site looks. This one uses that access only to hide parts of the page.

Something still showing? YouTube changes its page often. Use "Something still showing?" in the popup, or report it here: https://github.com/aenimaa/focus-mode-for-youtube/issues

Made by Nima Sh, who gets distracted too.
Website: https://aenimaa.github.io/focus-mode-for-youtube/
Source code: https://github.com/aenimaa/focus-mode-for-youtube

YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. This extension isn't endorsed by or affiliated with Google or YouTube.