YouTube History Cleanup
Adds always-visible delete buttons to the YouTube watch history page.
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Version
0.2.1
Manifest V3
History
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
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| Jun 8, 2026 | — | — | — | 0.2.1 |
| Now | — | — | — | 0.2.1 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- None declared
- Host access
- https://www.youtube.com/*
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About
Always-visible delete buttons on YouTube watch history. Bulk-delete by channel or shorts shelf. No accounts, no telemetry, no servers.
Detailed description
YouTube History Cleanup makes pruning your watch history fast.
YouTube's stock UI hides each item's delete button behind a hover-then-click-the-menu dance, and offers no way to bulk-remove a creator or a shorts shelf without clearing everything. This extension fixes that.
WHAT IT ADDS
• Always-visible delete button on every video row
• Always-visible delete button on every short
• "Delete all from this channel" with confirmation dialog — wipes every item from a given creator in one click
• "Delete all shorts in this group" — clears an entire shorts shelf at once
• Works on the standard /feed/history page, including items appended as you scroll
HOW IT WORKS
The extension reads each history item's feedbackToken from the page (the same token YouTube's own UI uses) and sends a signed delete request to YouTube's official feedback endpoint. Same API, same auth, same result —
just without the clicks.
PRIVACY
• No accounts
• No analytics
• No telemetry
• No remote servers
• No data collection of any kind
Runs entirely in your browser. The only network traffic is the delete requests sent directly to youtube.com on your behalf.
Privacy policy: https://themidnightgospel.github.io/yt-history-cleanup/privacy
PERMISSIONS
• Runs only on https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
• Host permission for youtube.com is required to call the official delete endpoint
OPEN SOURCE
Source: https://github.com/themidnightgospel/yt-history-cleanup
Issues and feature requests welcome.
LIMITATIONS
• Only the watch history page is supported. Search history, comment history, and other Google activity are unaffected.
• YouTube can change their DOM or endpoint at any time and break the extension; updates ship as breakage is discovered.Technical
- Version
- 0.2.1
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 13.97KiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- oocmbcdepmcghanimefeadoniopbnjbb
- Developer ID
- u9a113abfb9ca7072cfa427956e05b95f
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Jun 7, 2026
- Last Updated (Store)
- Jun 7, 2026
- Last Scraped
- Jun 8, 2026
- Website
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Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 8, 2026.