/rabbit-hole-sealant

A Chrome extension to make YouTube less addicting by hiding the sidebar and comments.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Rabbit Hole Sealant 🥕

Stop falling into YouTube rabbit holes!

This Chrome extension hides some of YouTube's most attention-grabbing components. Quickly toggle the following options:

  • Show or hide the 'suggested videos' sidebar
  • Show or hide the comment section

Install

Pending upload to Chrome webstore. Local installation workaround:

  1. Download project files (git clone or download .zip)
  2. Open Chrome browser and navigate to chrome://extensions
  3. Click 'Load Unpacked'
  4. Select the root directory of the downloaded project files
  5. Rabbit Hole Sealant applied! 🐇

Usage

  1. Click the extension icon to show the options popup
  2. Select which components you want to show or hide
  3. YouTube page will update automatically; no refresh needed!

Under the Hood

Technologies Applied & Skills Learned

  • ES6 Promises
  • Chrome Storage API methods (set/get)
  • Manifest v3, Google's latest major update to the extension platform

Issues & Bugs

If you find any issues with the extension or want to suggest new features, please submit an issue in this repo's Issues tab.

Screenshots

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