unhook Yourself

About

unhook Yourself - Take Control of Your YouTube Experience

This extension is designed to make your YouTube experience more efficient and purposeful. It helps users organize their viewing habits according to their preferences.

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Key Features:

🎯 Smart Channel Filtering
Whitelist System: Only content from channels you've approved is displayed
Automatic Channel Detection: Automatically detect channels from current recommendations
Subscription Integration: Automatically add channels you follow to your whitelist
One-Click Addition: Add channels to your whitelist with one click from homepage recommendations or channel pages

🚫 Content Control
Homepage Control: By default, the YouTube homepage appears empty; except for content from permitted channels
Shorts and Mix Control: Short videos and mixed content are hidden
Automatic Short Limit: After watching a specified number of short videos, filters automatically reactivate
Title Filtering: Block videos with specific keywords in their titles

⚙️ Advanced Settings
Temporary Bypass: You can disable restrictions for a specific period (e.g., 5 minutes)
Video Sidebar Control: Optionally hide video recommendations or comment areas
Live Chat Hiding: Remove live chat from video pages
Comments Control: Completely hide comments or hide profile photos in comments
Main Menu Hiding: Remove distracting navigation elements

🔍 Search Results Freedom
Smart Search: No filtering is applied to content accessed through YouTube's search bar (optional)
Channel Page Exception: Allow viewing channel details when visiting /channel/, /c/, /@, /user/ pages

🔒 Security & Protection
Password Protection: Lock your settings with a secure password to prevent unauthorized changes
Export/Import Settings: Backup and restore all extension settings including whitelist, preferences, and lock status
Forgot Password: Export settings and get guidance to reinstall the extension to reset your password

🌍 Multi-Language Support
Turkish, German, Arabic, English, French, Italian, Russian, and Chinese support.

🔐 Privacy
No general or personal data is collected. All your data stays on your device.

How It Works?
IMPORTANT RULE: When filtering is enabled and whitelist is empty, NO videos are shown. This is by design to ensure you only see content from explicitly allowed channels.
Whitelist empty + Filter enabled: All videos hidden
Whitelist has channels + Filter enabled: Only whitelisted channel videos shown
Filter disabled: All videos shown (regardless of whitelist)
Bypass active: All videos shown temporarily
This tool helps you manage your viewing process entirely within the rules you've set. Whether your goal is learning or entertainment, it makes your content consumption more focused and efficient.