YouPause - make YouTube less addictive

About

YouTube is an incredible platform for learning, research, and discovery. But it's also engineered to keep you watching, scrolling, and clicking endlessly. We’ve all been there: you start with one video for work or study, and two hours later, you’re deep into recommendations you never meant to see.

This extension is a simple, powerful fix designed to deal with this problem. It provides the user a way to remove the visual cues that keep the user hooked to  the platform from showing up, so you can watch with purpose and leave without distraction.

Features:

🧠 Distraction-free homepage – just a clean search bar. No thumbnails, no noise.

🚫 No recommended videos – gone from the homepage, sidebar, and end screen.

🙈 Comments hidden – remove the vortex of opinions and distractions.

🧭 Side navigation panel removed – no quick hops to trending, subscriptions, or shorts.

✖️ YouTube logo hidden – disables the easy jump back to the addictive homepage.

The result? You search. You watch. You leave. No scrolling. No spirals. No wasted hours. 

No sign-up, no accounts, no tracking. Enable/Disable anytime. Just install and breathe easier.