Best alternatives to YouTube Detox — Block Shorts, Hide Recommendations & Stay Focused (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to YouTube Detox, 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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YouTube Detox alternatives, compared
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FocusTube - Hide YouTube Shorts, Recommendations, Suggestions & Block Words
Hide YouTube Shorts, recommendations, suggestions, and comments. Block channels and words. The ultimate distraction-free tool.
≈1K users4.8★ from 33 ratingsUpdated 7 weeks ago5 permissions- About 5.0× fewer users than YouTube Detox
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Clean YouTube: Block Shorts, Hide Comments & Feeds
YouTube Distraction-free. Remove Shorts, Recommended Videos, Thumbnails, Comments and other Distractions.
≈30K users4.8★ from 453 ratingsUpdated 10 days ago2 permissions- About 6.0× more users than YouTube Detox
- Rated 0.2 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 5)
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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 200× more users than YouTube Detox
- Rated 0.2 stars higher
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 5)
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YouTube Clean: Block Shorts, Filter Recommendations & Skip Ads
Block Shorts, stop auto-dubbing and translated titles, hide watched videos and comments, get an endless home feed. 70+ free tools.
≈1K users4.9★ from 14 ratingsUpdated 2 weeks ago2 permissions- About 5.0× fewer users than YouTube Detox
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 5)
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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× more users than YouTube Detox
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 5)
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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 5.0× fewer users than YouTube Detox
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 5)
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Disable YouTube Shorts
Use Disable YouTube Shorts extension to deep focus and stay unhooked. Distraction free tool will help you to hide Youtube shorts!
≈20K users3.2★ from 78 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago2 permissions- About 4.0× more users than YouTube Detox
- Rated 1.4 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 5)
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Youtube shorts blocker
Block annoying Youtube Shorts. Play shorts as it was simple video in default player
≈100K users4.6★ from 387 ratingsUpdated 9 months ago1 permissions- About 20× more users than YouTube Detox
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 5)
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Hide shorts for Youtube™
Hides shorts from YouTube™ from home page, subscriptions and search results.
≈8K users4.7★ from 23 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago1 permissions- About 1.6× more users than YouTube Detox
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 5)
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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 60× more users than YouTube Detox
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 5)
YouTube Detox alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to YouTube Detox?
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 FocusTube - Hide YouTube Shorts, Recommendations, Suggestions & Block Words.
Which YouTube Detox alternative has the best rating?
Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended & Shorts has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.9 out of 5 from 4.6K ratings.
Is there a YouTube Detox alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Youtube shorts blocker asks for 1 permissions, against 5 for YouTube Detox.
How many alternatives to YouTube Detox are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to YouTube Detox on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
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