Refine — Hide YouTube distractions

About

Refine hides the parts of YouTube you didn't come to see.

The popup gives you a switch for every distraction YouTube tries to feed you Shorts shelves and tabs, the home feed, recommended videos in the sidebar, the Trending tab, comments, end screens, merch shelves, the "More from YouTube" section in the menu, search-result clutter, even the top header. Flip each one independently, or use the group-level switch in each section header to hide everything in one tap.

WHAT YOU CAN HIDE

Home
• Home feed (with optional redirect to Subscriptions)
• Shorts (shelf, tab, reel grid, sidebar entry)
• Mixes
• Trending & Explore
• Subscriptions feed

Watch page
• Video sidebar (Recommended, Live chat, Playlist as sub-toggles)
• End-screen feed and end-screen cards
• Fundraiser banners
• Merch, tickets, offers
• Video info (title, channel, buttons, description each its own toggle)
• Disable autoplay (via the player's own API)
• Disable annotations

Comments
• Comments (with profile-photos sub-toggle)

YouTube shell
• Notifications
• Search suggestions
• Off-topic search shelves
• "More from YouTube" section in the menu
• Top header

HOW IT WORKS

Refine writes your preferences as attributes on the YouTube page before it paints, then a single stylesheet hides whatever you've toggled off. No flicker, no flash of the thing you came here to hide. Per-site pause is one click — flip it off when you actually want to scroll, then back on. Network-layer redirects bounce you off Trending and Explore before they load. The autoplay toggle calls YouTube's own player API directly.

PRIVACY

Refine collects nothing. No accounts, no telemetry, no remote servers. Your toggle preferences live in your browser's local storage and nowhere else. Full privacy policy: https://refine-yt.vercel.app/privacy

OPEN SOURCE

Source, issues, and feature requests: https://github.com/PaoloJN/refine
MIT licensed.

Built by one person. Hope it gives you back the YouTube you wanted.