Superpower YouTube - Disable YouTube Shorts & Comments + Content Filter

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• Jun 1, 2026
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  Superpower YouTube is a focused, distraction-blocking extension for YouTube. Hide the rabbit holes, keep the learning. Turn off Home, Shorts, Explore, Playables, Breaking News, thumbnails, recommendations, comments, autoplay, and more—then add smart schedules or a 25/5 Focus Session to stay on task. Built for students, professionals, and creators who want a calmer, minimal, productive YouTube.
  
  
  🔹 Learn more: https://spyoutube.app
  
  ✨ What it does
  
  • 🏠 Hide Home Feed — start on a clean YouTube
  • 🎬 Hide Shorts — Hide Shorts from Home Feed, Search, Channel Pages, and Recommendations
  • 📺 Redirect Home Feed to Subscriptions — see only channels you chose
  • 🔎 Hide Explore & 🎮 Playables — no trending or games
  • 📰 Hide Breaking News — remove news shelf from Home Feed
  • 📚 Hide Sidebar & 🧭 Recommendations — fewer “watch next” traps
  • 🖼️ Hide / Blur Thumbnails — reduce visual clickbait
  • 🔚 Hide End Screen Feed & 💬 Comments — finish without detours
  • ⛔ Disable Autoplay — stop the next video from starting
  • ✅ Content Filter — Block channels, keywords,  and users for a better viewing experience
  – Works across Home, Search and Related
  • ⏱️ Focus Session (25/5 Pomodoro) — auto-hide distractions during focus, then break
  – Choose a desired Focus Time to automatically hide YouTube distractions below, set your preferred Break Time to freely visit YouTube, and enter the Number of cycles to repeat this sequence of Focus and Break Times automati
  • 🕒 Hide During (time range) — Choose a daily time range to automatically hide distractions
  • 📅 Hide On (days) — Choose specific days to automatically hide distractions
  • 🔒 Lock Settings — protect your toggles with a password
  
  Premium features available during a 7-day free trial. 
  See pricing: https://spyoutube.app/#pricing
  
  💡 Why it’s better
  
  • 🧠 Designed for productivity and deep work
  • 🎚️ Simple toggles—use only the blocks you want
  • ⚡ Lightweight and fast; built for modern YouTube layouts
  • 🎯 Pairs perfectly with Study With Me, note-taking, and learning channels
  • 🔁 Works on Home, Watch, Subscriptions, End screens, and more
  
  🎯 Common use cases
  
  • Study & learning: keep lectures and tutorials front-and-center by hiding Shorts, recommendations, and autoplay.
  • Work & research: redirect to Subscriptions and blur thumbnails to avoid clickbait while searching.
  • Content creation: focus on your uploads and analytics without noise from the Home feed or Explore.
  • Digital wellbeing: schedule calm hours (e.g., 9–5) and block autoplay to prevent binge-loops.
  
  ⏱️ Focus Session (Pomodoro)
  
  Turn on a 25-minute focus timer followed by a 5-minute break. During focus time, Superpower YouTube automatically enforces your distraction-blocking rules (Hide Shorts, Disable Autoplay, etc.). It’s a simple way to build momentum and maintain attention across study or work sessions.
  
  🧭 Tips for a calmer YouTube
  
  • Enable Redirect to Subscriptions + Hide Home Feed for a distraction-free start page.
  • Combine Disable Autoplay with Hide End Screen Feed to prevent “just one more video.”
  • Use Hide / Blur Thumbnails to eliminate clickbait and reduce visual noise.
  • Schedule Hide During for your working hours, or select Hide On to choose specific days to automatically hide YouTube distractions whenever those periods start.
  
  Selecting "Focus Session", "Hide During", or "Hide On" will automatically hide the YouTube distractions below:
  
  Home Feed | Shorts | Explore | Sidebar | Recommendations | End Screen Feed | Autoplay
  
  Use "🔒 Lock Settings" to prevent changes to your settings with a password.
  
  👥 Who it’s for
  
  • 🎓 Students learning with YouTube
  • 🧑‍💻 Professionals & researchers who want signal over noise
  • 🎥 Creators who need a clean workspace
  • 🧩 Anyone who wants fewer distractions and more focus
  
  
  Take control of YouTube — keep the value, lose the distractions — with Superpower YouTube.

  Remove YouTube Shorts, recommendations, comments, autoplay, and other distractions. Use YouTube for learning, work, and research without falling into rabbit holes.
  
  Superpower YouTube is a distraction-blocking extension that helps you create a cleaner, calmer, and more productive YouTube experience. Hide distracting sections, block unwanted YouTube channels, keywords, and users, export or import blocked items, start focus sessions, schedule distraction-free hours, and protect your settings from impulsive changes.
  
  🔹 Learn more: https://spyoutube.app
  
  ✨ What Superpower YouTube can do
  
  Free YouTube Controls:
  
  • 🏠 Hide Home Feed — start YouTube with a cleaner page
  • 🎬 Hide Shorts — remove Shorts from Home, Search, channel pages, and recommendations
  • 📺 Redirect to My Subscriptions — go directly to channels you chose
  • ⭐ Hide Most Relevant — remove the “Most relevant” section from Subscriptions
  • 👁️ Hide Video View Count — reduce social proof and click pressure
  • 🔎 Hide Explore — remove trending discovery pages
  • 🎮 Hide Playables — hide YouTube games
  • 📰 Hide Breaking News — remove news distractions
  • 📚 Hide Sidebar — reduce visual clutter
  • 🧭 Hide Recommendations — avoid “watch next” rabbit holes
  • 🔚 Hide End Screen Feed — finish videos without more suggestions
  • 💬 Hide Comments — avoid comment distractions
  • 💬 Hide Live Chat — remove live chat distractions
  • 🖼️ Hide Thumbnails — reduce clickbait
  • 🌫️ Blur Thumbnails — make YouTube less visually addictive
  • ⛔ Disable Autoplay — stop the next video from starting automatically
  
  Advanced Content Filter:
  
  • Block YouTube channels
  • Block keywords from video titles
  • Block users from comments
  • Quickly block channels or users with Block buttons
  • Export blocked channels, keywords, and users anytime
  • Import blocked channels, keywords, and users
  • Imported blocked items are merged with your current list, and duplicates are ignored
  • Works across Home, Search, Watch pages, Related videos, and comments
  • Protect Filters — choose an unblock click count to make blocked items harder to remove impulsively
  
  Focus Mode:
  
  • ⏱️ Focus Session — start a focus timer that automatically hides YouTube distractions
  • 🕒 Recurring Session — schedule distraction-free YouTube during specific hours and days
  
  
  🛡️ Protect YouTube Controls — make selected YouTube Controls harder to turn off
    • ✍️ Require typing the distraction name before turning off a YouTube Control
    • ⏳ Lock YouTube Controls for a set time period, such as 1 hour, until tomorrow, 3 days, or 7 days
  • 🔒 Lock Settings — make distraction-blocking settings harder to change impulsively
  
  
  💎 Free and Pro
  
  Basic YouTube controls are free.
  
  Pro tools are available with a 7-day free trial and include advanced controls like Content Filter, Import blocked items, Focus Session, Recurring Session, Protect Filters, Protect YouTube Controls, and Lock Settings.
  
  See pricing: https://spyoutube.app/#pricing
  
  
  💡 Why use Superpower YouTube?
  
  YouTube does not provide a simple built-in way to fully remove Shorts, recommendations, autoplay, comments, and other distractions.
  
  Superpower YouTube helps you use YouTube intentionally instead of getting pulled into endless feeds, clickbait thumbnails, and “just one more video” loops.
  
  Use it for:
  
  • Studying and learning
  • Work and research
  • Deep focus sessions
  • Content creation
  • Digital wellbeing
  • Reducing time wasted on YouTube
  
  
  🎯 Common use cases
  
  Study and learning
  Hide Shorts, recommendations, comments, and autoplay so lectures, tutorials, and educational videos stay front and center.
  
  Work and research
  Use YouTube for research without being pulled into unrelated videos, clickbait thumbnails, or endless recommendations.
  
  Content creation
  Keep your YouTube workspace cleaner by hiding distracting feeds, comments, recommendations, and visual noise.
  
  Digital wellbeing
  Reduce binge-watching and create calmer YouTube habits with scheduled focus sessions, autoplay blocking, and protected settings.
  
  ⏱️ Focus Session
  
  Start a focus timer, such as 25 minutes of focus followed by a 5-minute break. During focus time, Superpower YouTube can automatically hide distractions like Home Feed, Shorts, Explore, Sidebar, Recommendations, End Screen Feed, and Autoplay.
  
  🕒 Recurring Session
  
  Choose specific days and hours when YouTube distractions should stay hidden automatically. For example, create a distraction-free YouTube setup during work hours, study time, or evening routines.
  
  🛡️ Protect YouTube Controls
  
  Use Protect YouTube Controls to make selected distractions harder to turn back on. You can require typing the distraction name before disabling a YouTube Control, or temporarily lock YouTube Controls for a set time period such as 1 hour, until tomorrow, 3 days, or 7 days.
  
  🔐 Protect Filters
  
  Use Protect Filters to make blocked channels, keywords, and users harder to unblock impulsively. Choose how many times you must click UNBLOCK before a blocked item is removed, helping protect your Content Filter from quick changes during moments of distraction.
  
  🔒 Lock Settings
  
  Use Lock Settings to protect your YouTube Controls with a password and make it harder to turn distractions back on impulsively.
  
  🧭 Tips for a calmer YouTube
  
  • Enable Hide Shorts + Hide Home Feed for a cleaner start
  • Use Redirect to My Subscriptions to focus only on channels you chose
  • Combine Disable Autoplay + Hide End Screen Feed to prevent “just one more video”
  • Use Hide or Blur Thumbnails to reduce clickbait
  • Use Content Filter to block distracting channels, keywords, and users
  • Export your blocked items anytime as a backup
   • Import blocked items to merge saved channels, keywords, and users with your current list
   • Use Protect YouTube Controls to make it harder before turning distractions back on
  • Use Focus Session or Recurring Session when you need YouTube for learning or work
  
  👥 Who it’s for
  
  
  • Students using YouTube for lectures, tutorials, and studying
  • Professionals and researchers who want fewer distractions
  • Creators who need a cleaner YouTube workspace
  • Anyone who wants to stop wasting time on Shorts
  • Anyone who wants to make YouTube less addictive and more intentional
  
  Take control of YouTube. Keep the value. Remove the distractions.

• Jun 1, 2026
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  Remove YouTube Shorts and other distractions. Use advanced content filtering for YouTube - Block users, channels, and keywords.

  Make YouTube less distracting. Hide YouTube Shorts, comments, recommendations, autoplay, and block channels, keywords, and users.

• May 2, 2026
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  Superpower YouTube - Disable YouTube Shorts & Comments

  Superpower YouTube - Disable YouTube Shorts & Comments + Content Filter

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