TuneOut — Retro YouTube

About

Fall down the YouTube rabbit hole a little too often? Reclaim your focus with a dose of 90s nostalgia.

TuneOut wraps your YouTube player and feed inside a fully customized, retro cathode-ray tube (CRT) television cabinet. Instead of boring website blocks, TuneOut adds intentional "friction" to your viewing habits using aesthetics—helping you stay mindful and watch only what you actually came to see.

📺 THE RETRO EXPERIENCE

WebGL CRT Shaders: Experience authentic scanlines, screen bezel curvature, phosphor grid glows, and vintage chromatic aberration directly on YouTube.
Tape Hiss & VHS Hum: Layer retro audio nodes into your video playback with adjustable volume sliders for 60Hz ambient hum and VHS tracking tape noise.
Historic Era Presets: Instantly switch between cabinet designs—from wood-grain B&W 1950s consoles and warm 1970s TVs to 1990s color sets.

🛑 MINDFUL FOCUS & WHITELISTS

Channel Whitelisting: Switch to Focus or Gaming Mode. Any non-whitelisted videos are instantly paused and covered by a glowing static screen overlay.
Tape Deck Music Mode: Black out the video player, spinning up an animated cassette deck with scrolling track metadata—perfect for lofi study sessions.

🧹 ALGORITHM CLEANSING

Recommendation Eraser: Wipe out home feeds, comments sections, and sidebar lists with a single click. Search, watch, and get out.
Autoplay Blocker: Forces autoplay to stay off, preventing continuous watch loops.
No servers. No trackers. No data collection. 100% client-side privacy