Focused YouTube

🔍 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.

Screenshots

🏠 Distraction-free YouTube homepage.

🔍 Clean search page.

📺 Noise-free video page.

🌜 Dark mode (depends of your system settings).

Big shout out to @jakubkloc for introducing Dark Mode! 🙌

Make sure to enable Dark Mode in your Chrome before testing it:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9275525?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

💬 An option to show/hide the comments section.

📱 Works in mobile browser as well

Big shout out to @fauzanabrar for making Focused Youtube work in mobile browsers! 🙌

Contributing

You're more than welcome to contribute. In fact, I'm really looking forward to it! 🚀

Just make sure to check out the contribution guidelines. 🙏

Development

Clone FY's repo to your computer.

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

Install dependencies and run a command to re-build the extension on any file change. ⚠️ Note, that you'll need to update the extension (by clicking on the update icon) ☝️ every time you want to test the latest version.

npm install

npm run mon

Releasing

npm run build