Best alternatives to RYS — Remove YouTube Suggestions (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to RYS, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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RYS alternatives, compared
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Remove YouTube Shorts
Removes YouTube Shorts and prevents you from wasting your precious time.
≈300K users4.6★ from 688 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago2 permissions- About 15× more users than RYS
- Rated 0.5 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
- 2
remove shorts for youtube
Block all of the youtube shorts from homepage and play with Desktop UI as normal video
≈3K users3.4★ from 39 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years4 permissions- About 6.7× fewer users than RYS
- Rated 0.8 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
- 3
remove YouTube TV button
removes 'play on TV' button on YouTube
≈6K users4.9★ from 81 ratingsNot updated for 2+ yearsNo special permissions- About 3.3× fewer users than RYS
- Rated 0.8 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 3)
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LockedIn - Remove YouTube Shorts & Distractions
Stop doomscrolling. Hide YouTube Shorts, feeds, and comments. Block the algorithm and stay LockedIn on what matters.
≈10K users5.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 11 days ago6 permissions- About 2.0× fewer users than RYS
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 3)
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Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended & Shorts
Hide YouTube related videos, shorts, comments, suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending, and other distractions.
≈1M users4.9★ from 4.6K ratingsUpdated 7 months ago4 permissions- About 50× more users than RYS
- Rated 0.7 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
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ShortsBlocker - Remove Shorts from YouTube
Remove Shorts videos from Youtube
≈100K users4.5★ from 920 ratingsUpdated 2 weeks ago2 permissions- About 5.0× more users than RYS
- Rated 0.3 stars higher
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
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AI Summary for YouTube
Get YouTube Video Summary in seconds and let you quickly get the content of the video, save time and learn quicker.
≈100K users3.1★ from 110 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago5 permissions- About 5.0× more users than RYS
- Rated 1.0 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (5 vs 3)
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Speak Subtitles for YouTube
Extension convert text subtitles for YouTube into natural-sounding speech using AI technologies.
≈500K users3.3★ from 739 ratingsUpdated 11 months ago3 permissions- About 25× more users than RYS
- Rated 0.8 stars lower
- Updated less recently
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Subtitles for Youtube
Use this extension to add subtitles available to user to any YouTube video
≈20K users3.3★ from 592 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years2 permissions- A similar number of users to RYS
- Rated 0.8 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
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Remove YouTube Shorts and Recommended
Hide YouTube shorts, trending, related videos, homepage recommendations, related videos and other distractions.
≈1K users4.1★ from 12 ratingsUpdated 21 months ago3 permissions- About 20× fewer users than RYS
- Updated less recently
RYS alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to RYS?
By users, the most popular alternative is Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended & Shorts with ≈1M users and a 4.9-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Remove YouTube Shorts.
Which RYS alternative has the best rating?
remove YouTube TV button has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.9 out of 5 from 81 ratings.
Is there a RYS alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
remove YouTube TV button asks for 0 permissions, against 3 for RYS.
How many alternatives to RYS are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to RYS on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
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