Focus: YouTube Simplified

This is not YouTube as entertainment, it is YouTube as a tool.

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Focus: YouTube Simplified transforms your YouTube experience by removing distractions such as recommendations, shorts, subscriptions, and comments. It offers a clean, minimalistic interface that eliminates the usual clutter and algorithms, allowing you to focus solely on the content you need. This extension disables channel links, search suggestions, and sidebar menus to keep your viewing streamlined and purposeful.

Ideal for users aiming to use YouTube as an efficient tool rather than entertainment, Focus prioritizes productivity and simplicity. Developed by Aadam Gafar, the extension is open-source with its code available on GitHub. Firefox users can also enjoy the simplified experience through the available Mozilla Add-ons version.

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By:: aadamhgafar
Users:: 1,000+ 27
Rating:: 4.85
(13)
Version:: 1.7.4 (Last updated: 2025-04-01)
Creation date:: 2023-11-13
Risk:: Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Size:: 8.23K
Email:: aa*****@gmail.com
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 17 hours ago

Ranking

# 25,059 ▲ 5,772

Other rankings

#15 in Well-being

#16 in focus keyword 20 ▼ 1

#96 in interface keyword 13 ▼ 1

#121 in firefox keyword 28 ▲ 3

#158 in youtube shorts keyword 41 ▼ 2

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User reviews

Users highly appreciate Focus: YouTube Simplified for its simplicity and effectiveness in blocking distractions, which significantly boosts focus and productivity. It helps prevent getting sidetracked by YouTube recommendations, making it ideal for studying and work. However, multiple users mention the lack of features such as toggling subscriptions and managing playlists as areas for improvement to enhance its functionality further.

Pros

Effectively blocks distractions on YouTube to help users focus on studying or work.
Simple and well-designed extension that is easy to use.
Helps increase productivity by preventing distraction from recommendations and unrelated videos.
Highly praised as one of the best add-ons for YouTube to enhance focus and productivity.
Users experience significant improvement in completing tasks after using the extension.

Cons

Lacks the ability to toggle subscriptions ON/OFF within the extension.
Does not currently allow saving videos to playlists or viewing playlists, limiting some user customization.
Missing some useful YouTube functionalities like playlist management.

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natanael, 2025-04-28

I am a simple man. This is a simple extension. It simply gets the job done. But please remove 'shorts' from the search results.

Jian, 2025-04-27

good !!!

Fluffypencil, 2025-02-22

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Focus: YouTube Simplified 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

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

Risk likelihood analysis details

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