A Chrome extension that strips YouTube's engagement machinery and makes Shorts behave like normal videos. No accounts. No data collection. Fully local.
Rewrites every Short to play in the normal horizontal player. The dedicated Shorts shelf in search is removed. Channel Shorts tabs stay accessible.
The recommendation grid is gone. YouTube.com redirects straight to your Subscriptions feed — the content you actually chose.
Removes the related videos panel on the watch page and expands the player to fill the space. Watch what you came for.
Kills the suggested video overlays that auto-appear at the end of every video. Finish watching without being pulled elsewhere.
Hitting youtube.com sends you to /feed/subscriptions. The Home and Shorts entries are removed from the sidebar nav.
Every feature is toggleable from the extension popup. Settings persist across sessions via chrome.storage.sync. One click to pause everything.
Click "Add to Chrome" and confirm the permissions. The extension only runs on youtube.com.
You'll land on your Subscriptions feed. The home grid, Shorts shelf, and sidebar are already gone.
Click the YT Focus icon in your toolbar to toggle features on or off. Your preferences are saved automatically.