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Focused Youtube

Open source extension that removes comments/recommendations from Youtube: https://github.com/makaroni4/focused_youtube

Users10KCurrent public install base

Rating4.9Store average score

Reviews657Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity

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2026年7月10日2026年7月16日

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Version3.10

ManifestV3

Size2.2MiB

Languages1English

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Overview

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This is an open-source extension that changes homepage of Youtube (only search bar) and drops recommendations/comments from other pages.

Extension requires access to Youtube website to change its outlook.

Extension icon opens a popup with an option to show/hide the comments section of a video (to check timestamps in comments, for example). In the latest version, an option to temporarily disable the extension was added.

You can hover over the YouTube logo to access the navigation menu – playlists, liked videos, watch history, etc.

Enjoy <3

Important: the extension doesn't collect any data about Youtube usage.

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Store average score4.9Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average4.9Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text455Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews657Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.9. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Eli Heddell2025年5月20日

works wonderfully! best one ive found yet

DAKSH2025年5月17日

SOO HELPFUL .....good work developers

Thiyagu Mani2025年5月16日

Its all there what is needed. Neat and crisp.

Ercan2025年5月10日

Great! Very helpful

Susi2025年5月7日

good

Tina Park2025年5月5日

Works so well, wish I found this extension sooner!

Simon Logé2025年5月4日

perfect

Samuel Muto2025年5月2日

the extension is good but I can not access my downloads I had to hard code the downloads url which is a bit annoying

Osco2025年5月1日

life changing

Douglas Muriuki2025年4月29日

Awesome, removes all the noise from youtube

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Popup.js and welcome.js are compiled Vue.js bundles (~67KB and ~60KB) making it difficult to inspect exact popup UI features without deeper decompilation, though keyword scans confirm no payment/login logic
The extension is fully open source on GitHub so behavior can be verified externally

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension is open source (MIT licensed, GitHub repo linked) with no payment, billing, premium tier, or upgrade logic. All keyword hits were false positives: 'subscription'/'subscribe' refer to YouTube's Subscriptions page/feed (e.g., /feed/subscriptions link and subscriptions.svg icon), 'license' hits are all '@license MIT' headers from bundled Vue.js, and 'pro' hits are minified Vue.js variable names in the compiled bundle. No Stripe, PayPal, or other payment platform integrations exist. The popup UI contains toggle switches for extension features but no upgrade or payment prompts.

Confidence: 95
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension does not implement any login or account system. It uses chrome.storage.local for all settings (extension_enabled, comments, infinite_scroll, description, shorts). The 'account' keyword hit at content_script.js:33 is simply a navigation link to YouTube's own /account page, and the 'session' hit at line 53 is sessionStorage (browser storage, not authentication). No authentication tokens, credentials, or account creation flows exist in the source code.

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makaroni4

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