Study Mode: YouTube

About

Study and increase focus during on YouTube by removing distractions such as homepage videos, Shorts, Autoplay, sidebar recommended videos, and even individual videos + channels with custom word filters!

Increase productivity and never get lost in the endless sea of videos again!

Current Features:
-Hide the notification bell
-Hide the left sidebar
-Hide YouTube Shorts
-A custom word filter to remove all specified videos and channels
-Hide all Home Page videos
-Turn Autoplay off
-Hide all recommended sidebar videos
-Hide endscreen video wall
-Hide all comments

Open this extension in Chrome's browser's toolbar (same icon you see on this page) and select as many options as you want to apply to the current tab + all future YouTube tabs, until the option(s) are deselected.

Unchecking any option will refresh the page you are on in order to restore the content that was originally there.

This extension is created to be used only with YouTube. It will not work with any other website.

Permissions

User data is not maliciously accessed by this extension; I am a user of this extension too, and believe heavily in the protection of users' privacy and personal data.

Below is an explanation of permissions in Study Mode: YouTube, with definitions copied from Mozilla's developer page.

activeTab: If an extension has the activeTab permission, then when the user interacts with the extension, the extension is granted extra privileges for the active tab only.

activeTab is used in order to apply user-input changes to the current tab of YouTube.
localStorage is also used in this extension and is used to store the options you have selected in the extension for future access - both in current tabs, and in any future tabs/windows. The custom word filter list is also stored to localStorage. Access and retrieval of only these customization options are used.

Contact

I have put a lot of effort into this extension, however, you may encounter a bug or issue. If you do, please email me at EMDHdev "at" gmail.com with the browser that you are using Study Mode: YouTube in, as well as a description of what is happening (and screenshot, if applicable).

My goal is to make this extension as useful as possible for every user, and your feedback will help greatly! Feel free to email me about any desired features you have and feedback about this extension - I'll be reading them all!

https://emdh-dev.github.io/