Hide Shorts, Lives & Premieres
Turn off the formats you don’t watch. Granular per surface — home, subscriptions, search, channel pages.
Chrome extension · Free to start
Take back your YouTube feed.
Vidsieve quietly hides what you don’t want to see — Shorts, lives, reactions, watched videos and channels you’d rather skip. Everything stays on your machine.
Beta 0.1.0 — Chrome Web Store listing in review.
Chrome
Edge
Brave
Opera
Vivaldi
Arc
Same extension everywhere — any Chromium-based browser works, no separate build.
What it cleans up
Block channels in one click
Hover any thumbnail, hit the X. Mute temporarily for 7 or 30 days when you just need a break.
Keyword & regex filters
One pattern per line. Use /regex/i for power filtering. Title-based, fast, transparent.
Anti-reaction
Built-in rules catch reaction-video patterns in EN/PT/ES.
Real “watched” threshold
Counts a video as watched only if you actually watched it — not just clicked. No more ghosts in the feed.
Daily channel limit
Set a cap (e.g. 3 videos/day) so one channel can’t flood your home. Resets every 24h.
Duration, age & views
Hide videos under 2 min, over 1 hour, older than 2 years, or with under 1k views. Two sliders, that’s it.
UI cleanup
Optional: hide sidebar recommendations, end screens, comments, merch shelves, Trending tab.
Whitelist that wins
Favorite channels bypass every rule. Configure once, never lose a creator you care about.
Privacy you can audit
- No tracking. Zero analytics, zero telemetry, no ads.
- Local only, free tier. All preferences live in
chrome.storage.localon your machine — the free tier makes zero network requests. - Minimal network use, Pro tier. Activating a Pro license sends only the license key and a random device ID to verify your purchase — never your browsing activity.
- Minimum permissions. Only
storage,contextMenus,alarmsand access toyoutube.com— nothing else.
FAQ
Does it block YouTube ads?
No. Vidsieve filters the feed, not the player. If you want an ad blocker, use one — they’re different tools.
Will it slow down YouTube?
It runs on the existing DOM with cheap selectors and a regex cache. You won’t notice it.
Does it work on mobile?
Chrome desktop and Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera). Mobile Chrome doesn’t support extensions.
Can I export my rules?
Yes — JSON import/export from the options page. Move between machines, back up before experiments.
Is it free?
Core filtering is free forever. A one-time Pro upgrade unlocks advanced filters — no subscription.