YouPause - make YouTube less addictive

YouTube is an incredible platform for learning, research, and discovery. But it's also engineered to keep you watching, scrolling, and clicking endlessly. We’ve all been there: you start with one video for work or study, and two hours later, you’re deep into recommendations you never meant to see.

This extension is a simple, powerful fix designed to deal with this problem. It provides the user a way to remove the visual cues that keep the user hooked to the platform from showing up, so you can watch with purpose and leave without distraction.

Features:

🧠 Distraction-free homepage – just a clean search bar. No thumbnails, no noise.

🚫 No recommended videos – gone from the homepage, sidebar, and end screen.

🙈 Comments hidden – remove the vortex of opinions and distractions.

🧭 Side navigation panel removed – no quick hops to trending, subscriptions, or shorts.

✖️ YouTube logo hidden – disables the easy jump back to the addictive homepage.

The result? You search. You watch. You leave. No scrolling. No spirals. No wasted hours.

No sign-up, no accounts, no tracking. Enable/Disable anytime. Just install and breathe easier.