YouTube Focus Mode

Hides recommendations and comments from YouTube videos to help you focus, and prevents you from browsing.

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YouTube Focus Mode is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your focus while watching YouTube videos. By hiding video recommendations and disabling the comments section, the extension creates a distraction-free environment that helps you concentrate on the content you want to watch. It also prevents browsing to other videos, minimizing the chances of falling into endless viewing loops. Whether you're studying, working, or simply want a cleaner viewing experience, YouTube Focus Mode streamlines your YouTube interface for maximum productivity and fewer distractions.

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By:: annaazzam
Users:: 624 24
Rating:: 4.96
(27)
Version:: 1.0 (Last updated: 2020-06-28)
Creation date:: 2020-06-27
Risk:: Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Size:: 8.94K
Email:: an*****@gmail.com
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 37,074 ▲ 288

Other rankings

#24918 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 12 #20 in focus keyword 19

User reviews

YouTube Focus Mode is praised for effectively removing distracting YouTube recommendations, offering a clean and distraction-free viewing experience. It is especially helpful for students and those needing focus during study. Users appreciate its simplicity and reliable performance. However, multiple reviews mention the absence of an on/off toggle for easier control, and a slight delay on page load where recommendations briefly appear before being blocked, which some find distracting.

Pros

Effectively removes distracting recommendations on YouTube to help focus.
Simple and reliable; does one job perfectly without unnecessary features.
Helpful for students and anyone wanting to avoid distractions during lectures or study.
Users appreciate the clean interface with no distracting logos or thumbnails.
Allows access to playlists, subscriptions, and Watch Later without distractions.

Cons

Lacks an on/off toggle which users frequently request for better control.
A brief moment where recommendations appear before being blocked on page load.
No immediate blank screen on YouTube load, causing temporary distractions.

Recent reviews

Works! Muito bom

Fellip, 2024-05-24

The extension is great, but an on/off toggle would be greater.

Tristan, 2024-02-23

Works great! This is exactly what I need to remove distracting recommendation from Youtube!

Jay Huang, 2023-12-10

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Extension safety

Risk impact

YouTube Focus Mode requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

YouTube Focus Mode has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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