Inkblocks Focus

YouTube, without the rabbit hole.

Inkblocks Focus hides the homepage feed, the suggestions beside the player, the end-screen grid and Shorts. Search, subscriptions and playback stay exactly as they are.

Add to Chrome Free. No account. No data leaves your browser. Also works in Brave, Edge and other Chromium browsers.

It removes what the algorithm picked. Nothing else.

The line it draws is simple: things YouTube chose for you go, things you chose stay.

Hidden

  • The homepage feed
  • Suggested videos beside the player
  • The end-screen grid when a video finishes
  • Shorts — shelves, thumbnails, sidebar entry, channel tabs
  • Autoplay, turned back off whenever YouTube turns it on

Untouched

  • Search
  • Subscriptions and channel pages
  • Playlists, history, watch later
  • Comments and the player itself
  • Shorts links people send you — they play in the normal player

Two presets, or your own mix.

Every rule is a switch. Two of them are set for you.

No feedsEverything the algorithm picks is hidden. The default.
Just no ShortsKeep the feed and suggestions. Remove Shorts and autoplay.
Pause 15 minTurns everything off, and back on by itself. You decide to browse; focus returns without you remembering.
Home opens SubscriptionsOptional. Land on the channels you chose instead of an empty page.

Private by design.

There is nothing to opt out of, because nothing is collected.

No account

Install it and it works. There is nothing to sign up for.

No network requests

The extension never contacts a server. Not ours, not anyone's. Ever.

No analytics

We don't know you installed it. Settings live in your browser's own storage.

Nothing to unlock

Every feature is included. No Pro tier, no upsell, no email asked for.

Built to keep working.

YouTube changes its layout constantly, and most extensions like this quietly break. Inkblocks Focus checks its own rules against live YouTube every night, and if a rule stops matching in your browser it switches that rule off rather than hiding the wrong thing — and tells you.

It does not block ads, and never will. That's a different promise, made by different tools. Inkblocks Focus works alongside them.