/focused_youtube

Chrome Extension to be more focused on Youtube.

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Focused Youtube Add to Chrome

🔍 Focused Youtube (FY) is a Chrome Extension that helps you stay focused by blocking recommendations and other elements on Youtube.

❤️ FY does not track any user data. It's a simple Vanilla JS application made with only one purpose – to help you avoid Youtube's rabbit hole.

Changes from upstream: category enforcement, subscribe to playlists, desaturate thumbnails, re-enable comments, disable channel page & shorts, always keep enabled

🍷🧀 Suggested to use with YouTube Focus Mode

Screenshots

🏠 Distraction-free Youtube homepage.

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🔍 Clean search page.

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📺 Noise-free video page.

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🙅 Category enforcement

Disallow watching videos from hard-coded categories. To override, the user must type, "I am sure I want to watch this video" followed by 6 randomly generated numbers. If the video was misclassified, you can type in the correct category.

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Development

Clone FY's repo to your computer.

Load the repo to chrome://extensions/ via "Load unpacked":

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🔍 You'll need to update extension ☝️ every time you changed CSS/JS files.