Hide Shorts, Lives, Premieres & Mixes
Turn off the formats you don’t watch — Shorts, live streams, premieres, upcoming, YouTube-generated Mixes.
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.
Short
Live
Reaction
3 videos hidden — the rest of your feed loads exactly as before.
What it cleans up
Free forever
Block channels in one click
Hover any thumbnail, hit the menu, block. Undo right from the toast if you didn’t mean to.
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 next to the player and the suggestion grid when a video ends.
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 ready-made presets. Pro lets you edit and rename them, and save 3 more of your own — swap your whole setup in one tap.
Hide your home feed entirely
Turn YouTube into a search-only tool — no recommendations, no rabbit holes, just what you look for.
Keyword & regex filters
One pattern per line. Use /regex/i for power filtering. Title-based, fast, transparent.
Whitelist that wins
Favorite channels bypass every rule. Configure once, never lose a creator you care about.
Duration, age & views
Hide videos under 2 min, over 1 hour, older than 2 years, or with under 1k views — six independent limits.
And much more…
Real watched % threshold, anti-reaction detection, daily channel caps, autoplay & notification cleanup, thumbnail blur & profile-photo hiding — plus 12 other options for the video page and side menu.
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.