Youtube Hider: hide watched videos, Shorts and low views

Tracking since Apr 16, 2026.

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• Jun 22, 2026
  description

  YouTube Hider helps you clean up YouTube by hiding what you don't want to see.
  Automatically remove watched videos, filter by views or upload date, and eliminate Shorts, Mixes, Playlists and live streams: all with simple, customizable controls.
  
  ✔ Hide watched videos based on your chosen progress threshold
  ✔ Filter videos below your preferred view count
  ✔ Hide by upload date: remove videos too new, too old, or both
  ✔ Remove Shorts, Mixes, Playlists and live streams
  ✔ Choose to fully hide filtered content or dim it with an overlay showing the filter reason
  ✔ Easy Mode for quick toggles, Advanced Mode for per-page control
  ✔ Floating quick-settings button for instant access on any YouTube page
  
  Works on Home, Channel, Subscriptions, Search and related video pages.
  Fully open source, lightweight, and data-free.
  
  Feature, Bug or Feedback: https://forms.gle/oAqtSjQHQeEp9TFKA

  YouTube Hider helps you clean up YouTube by hiding what you don't want to see.
  Automatically remove watched videos, filter by views or upload date, and eliminate Shorts, Mixes, Playlists and live streams: all with simple, customizable controls.
  
  ✔ Hide watched videos based on your chosen progress threshold
  ✔ Filter videos below your preferred view count
  ✔ Hide by upload date: remove videos too new, too old, or both
  ✔ Remove Shorts, Mixes, Playlists and live streams
  ✔ Whitelist specific channels to exempt them from every active filter
  ✔ Choose to fully hide filtered content or dim it with an overlay showing the filter reason
  ✔ Easy Mode for quick toggles, Advanced Mode for per-page control
  ✔ Floating quick-settings button for instant access on any YouTube page
  
  Works on Home, Channel, Subscriptions, Search and related video pages.
  Fully open source, lightweight, and data-free.
  
  Feature, Bug or Feedback: https://forms.gle/oAqtSjQHQeEp9TFKA

Permissions & access

Permissions

storage

Host access

https://www.youtube.com/*, https://m.youtube.com/*

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