For people done with the algorithm
Your feed.
Your rules.
Vidsieve strips Shorts, lives, watched clips and channels you're done with — straight out of YouTube, with nothing sent anywhere.
Beta 0.1.0 — Chrome Web Store listing in review.
3 videos hidden — the rest loads exactly as before.
What it cleans up
Free forever
Hide Shorts, Lives, Premieres & Mixes
Turn off the formats you don't watch — Shorts, live streams, premieres, upcoming, YouTube-generated Mixes.
Block channels in one click
Hover any thumbnail, hit the menu, block. Undo right from the toast.
Hide videos you've watched
One switch, no setup. Videos with a progress bar drop out of the feed.
Hide related videos & end screens
Removes the sidebar recommendations and the end-of-video suggestion grid.
Hide comments
One switch to drop the entire comments section from every video page.
Clean up the side menu
Remove the Explore, Subscriptions, Shorts, Playables and Podcasts shortcuts you never click.
Pro unlocks
Save your own filter profiles
Free includes 3 presets. Pro lets you edit, rename and save 3 more — swap your whole setup in one tap.
Hide your home feed entirely
Turn YouTube into a search-only tool — no recommendations, no rabbit holes.
Keyword & regex filters
One pattern per line. Use /regex/i for power filtering.
Whitelist that wins
Favorite channels bypass every rule. Never lose a creator you care about.
Duration, age & views
Hide videos under 2 min, over 1 hour, older than 2 years, or under 1k views.
And much more…
Watched % threshold, daily channel caps, autoplay & notification cleanup, thumbnail blur — plus 12 other options.
Privacy you can audit
No tracking
Zero analytics, zero telemetry, no ads.
Local only, free tier
Preferences live in chrome.storage.local — zero network requests.
Minimal network use, Pro
Only a license key and device ID to verify purchase.
Minimum permissions
storage, contextMenus, alarms and youtube.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.