YouTube Search Fixer by Phoenix

Remove ALL distracting search results, redirect shorts back to legacy page and try little visual changes suited for low resolution screens.

4.6 (104 reviews)

14,977 Users

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About this extension

This extension is designed to help you fix YouTube search and make it less distracting. Also available on chrome and other web browsers.

Our Motto: Do one thing, do it good.

FEATURES

Remove suggestions like "For you", "People also search for", "Searches related to", "Learn while you're at home", "Related to your search", "People also watched", "Other people are watching", "Recommended to you" and "Latest YouTube posts" from your feed.
Remove Shorts from search results
Remove watched content from results.
Remove Live Videos from search results
Remove time-stamped content from results.
Remove artist and verified channel content from results.
Individual toggles for turning off sections. Eg. Horizontal Cardlist, Shorts Panel, Auto-Generated YouTube Mixes and many more.
Use an option to permanently redirect "shorts" back to the normal video page.
Turn off playlists from appearing in search results.
Hide YouTube mixes and reels suggestions.
Remove musician sidebar(optional).
Filter out channel listings from results.
Video Spotlight to highlight videos in the search page (optional).
Centered video title (optional).
Centered video description (optional).
An options page to turn off visual changes.

IS IT SAFE?
Absolutely. This is some barebones JavaScript to detect elements and some CSS to apply visual changes. There are no trackers phoning home or telemetry scripts working in the background in this extension. Not to mention no data is being sent or shared with any third party or the developer. It's completely open source so you can audit the code.

PRIVACY POLICY
This extension does not send or receive data of any kind nor does it use any cookies. This means no analytics of any kind.

Please note this extension works on both Light and Dark Mode. YouTube™ and Google™ are trademarks of Google Inc. Use of these trademarks is subject to Google Permissions.

Developer comments

Thank you for giving this addon a try.

Seeing folks use something you worked on is always encouraging. Happy browsing :)

Rated 4.6 by 104 reviewers

Release notes for 8.2.1

Updates
➡ Filter added : Remove videos from verified channels.
➡ Filter added : Remove videos from artist channels.
➡ Filter added : Remove videos from watched content.
➡ Filter added : Remove videos with timestamps.
➡ Visual changes : Settings categorized for ease of use.
➡ Visual changes : Remove musician sidebar.
➡ Visual changes : Experimental feature to fix videos per row on home page.

Fixed
➡ Re-did removal of mixes and playlist as YouTube pushed an updated that affected this feature.
➡ Improved individual toggles for turning off Shorts Panel and Auto-Generated YouTube Mixes.
➡ Addressed issue making extension slower on live streams.
➡ Removed unnecessary permission from manifest.json.
➡ Shorts redirection timing improved.
➡ Settings page overhaul.
➡ Improved individual toggles for turning off Shorts Panel and Auto-Generated YouTube Mixes.
➡ Further script optimization which allows the extension to run faster.
➡ Addressed issue making mixes coming up in search results.
➡ Made changes that help consume lesser system resources while working and idle.
➡ CSS bugs addressed.
➡ Misc. bug fixes.

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