Nope – Hide YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels & Distractions

About

Take back the parts of YouTube and Instagram that were designed to keep you scrolling.

Nope hides Shorts, Reels, Stories, Explore, autoplay, video previews, recommendations, and suggested posts — instantly, with no flash, no flicker, and no tracking. Toggle exactly what you want gone. Leave the parts you actually came for.

━━━ HIDE ON YOUTUBE ━━━

• Hide Shorts — removes the Shorts tab, sidebar entry, and every Shorts shelf on Home, Search, Subscriptions, and channel pages. Redirects /shorts/ URLs back to Home.
• Disable autoplay — flips the player's autoplay toggle off and prevents the next video from auto-queuing.
• Disable video previews — blocks muted thumbnail hover-previews and scroll-triggered inline previews.
• Hide recommended videos — clears the related/up-next sidebar and the mobile recommended grid.
• Hide comments — removes the comments section and the mobile entry-point card on watch pages.
• Hide the home feed — redirects Home to your Subscriptions.

━━━ HIDE ON INSTAGRAM ━━━

• Disable Reels — hides Reels in the sidebar, feed, and profiles. Redirects /reels/ to Home.
• Disable the "For You" tab — pins your feed to Following.
• Disable Explore — hides Explore in the sidebar and redirects /explore/ to Home.
• Disable Search — hides the search entry point and redirects search URLs to Home.
• Hide Stories — clears the Stories tray at the top of your feed.
• Hide "Suggested for you" — removes the sidebar suggestions block and inline suggested-account cards inside the feed.
• Disable video autoplay — keeps feed videos paused on scroll. No more inline previews starting with sound.

━━━ APPEARANCE ━━━

  • Grayscale — render the entire site in black and white to reduce visual pull.
  • Mindful pause — a 5-second pause when you open a tab, with a prompt asking why you're visiting.

━━━ PRIVACY ━━━

Nope does not collect, transmit, or sell any data.

• No analytics. No telemetry. No remote config.
• Permissions: storage (to remember your toggles) and host access to instagram.com and youtube.com (to hide things on those pages). That's it.
• All settings live in your browser. Nothing leaves your device.

━━━ HOW TO USE ━━━

Click the Nope icon in your toolbar. Toggle on the things you want gone.That's it.

━━━ FEEDBACK ━━━

Found a feature Nope misses, or a layout it broke? Send me an email at [email protected] and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Stop doomscrolling. Start using these sites on your terms.