Remove all distracting YouTube search suggestions, redirect shorts and much more!

Latest Version

Version
7
Update
January 24, 2024
Size
99.81KiB
Developer
Category
Users
6,000+
Rating
4.71795 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
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Search Fixer for YouTube Extension

This extension is designed to fix YouTube search and de-clutter your search page to make it less distracting.

FEATURES
1. Remove suggestions like \"For you\", \"People also search for\", \"Searches related to\", \"Learn while you're at home\", \"Related to your search\", \"People also watched\", \"Other people are watching\", \"Recommended to you\", \"Latest YouTube posts\" and more from your feed.
2. Remove Shorts from Search Results.
3. Remove Live Videos from Search Results.
4. Individual toggles for turning off different kinds of search results. Eg. Horizontal Cardlist, Shorts Panel, Auto-Generated YouTube Mixes and many more.
5. Option to permanently redirect \"shorts\" back to the normal video page.
6. Turn off playlists from appearing in search results.
7. Hide YouTube mixes and reels suggestions.
8. Filter out channel listings from results.
9. Spaced out collapsed sidebar on homepage with accent color to signify active tab.
10. Video Spotlight to highlight videos in the search page (optional).
11. Centered video title (optional).
12. Centered video description (optional).
13. An options page to turn off visual changes.


IS IT SAFE?
Absolutely. This is some barebones JavaScript to detect elements and some CSS to apply visual changes. There are no trackers phoning home or telemetry scripts working in the background in this extension. Not to mention no data is being sent or shared with any third party or the developer. It's completely open source so you can audit the code.

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Search Fixer for YouTube™
YouTube™ is a trademark of Google Inc.
Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Search Fixer for YouTube", "version": "7", "description": "Remove all distracting YouTube search suggestions, redirect shorts and much more!", "icons": { "128": "icon128.png", "256": "icon256.png" }, "permissions": ["storage"], "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }, "action": { "default_icon": "icon256.png", "default_title": "Search Fixer for YouTube", "default_popup": "popup.html" }, "content_scripts": [ { "run_at": "document_start", "matches": ["https://*.youtube.com/*"], "js": ["ytt.js"], "css": ["yt.css"] } ], "host_permissions": ["http://www.youtube.com/"], "options_ui": { "page": "options.html", "browser_style": true }, "manifest_version": 3}
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User reviews

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Bryan T (ID: 0000001325b673a6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/31/2023 Thanks for this! I wish there was an option for blocking streamed videos.

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Mohammed Tariq (ID: 0000003614674af4) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/29/2023 Keep the hard work bro, thanks for making YouTube useable again.

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Felina Faerlaingal (ID: 000000dd016e5d7e) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 10/06/2023 Worked perfect, but youtube added new elements that clutter the search page: https://i.imgur.com/9BXDjVy.png Those weird featured bands. And I got a few mix playlist that managed to bypass the filter somehow

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FatheredPuma81 (ID: 000000f2909c8a87) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/27/2023 That makes like 8 extensions just to make YouTube usable in 2023...

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Lucas Sequeira (ID: 000000c623a8869d) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/20/2023 BOSS