
YouTube Search Fixer (YSF) by Phoenix
Remove ALL distracting search results, redirect shorts back to legacy page and try little visual changes suited for low resolution screens.
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![Image with regular YouTube search results [left side] V Extension turned on [right side]](https://addons.mozilla.org/user-media/previews/thumbs/268/268669.jpg?modified=1664873592)




About this extension
This extension is designed to fix YouTube search and de-clutter your home page to make it less distracting.
FEATURES
IS IT SAFE?
Absolutely. This is some barebones JavaScript to detect elements and some CSS to apply visual changes. There are no trackers or telemetry scripts working in the background in this extension. Not to mention no data is being sent or shared with any third party or the developer. It's completely open source so you can audit the code.
PRIVACY POLICY
This extension does not send or receive data of any kind nor does it use any cookies. This means no analytics of any kind.
Please note this extension works on both Light and Dark Mode. YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
FEATURES
- Remove suggestions like "For you", "People also search for", "Searches related to", "Learn while you're at home", "Related to your search", "People also watched", "Other people are watching", "Recommended to you" and "Latest YouTube posts" from your feed.
- Individual toggles for turning off different kinds of search results. Eg. Horizontal Cardlist, Shorts Panel, Auto-Generated YouTube Mixes and many more.
- Use an option to permanently redirect "shorts" back to the normal video page.
- Turn off playlists from appearing in search results.
- Hide YouTube mixes and reels suggestions.
- Filter out channel listings from results.
- More spaced out collapsed sidebar on homepage with accent color to signify active tab.
- No profile pictures of commenters (optional).
- Bigger centered video title (optional).
- Centered video description (optional).
- An options page to turn off visual changes.
IS IT SAFE?
Absolutely. This is some barebones JavaScript to detect elements and some CSS to apply visual changes. There are no trackers or telemetry scripts working in the background in this extension. Not to mention no data is being sent or shared with any third party or the developer. It's completely open source so you can audit the code.
PRIVACY POLICY
This extension does not send or receive data of any kind nor does it use any cookies. This means no analytics of any kind.
Please note this extension works on both Light and Dark Mode. YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
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This add-on needs to:
- Access your data for www.youtube.com
- Access your data for m.youtube.com
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- Version
- 5.0
- Size
- 57.71 KB
- Last updated
- 8 months ago (Oct 4, 2022)
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- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Release notes for 5.0
Added
➡ Hide Related results and Horizontal Card List Suggestions are now separate options user can turn off.
➡ Remove YouTube mixes from search results.
➡ Filter out channels from appearing in search results.
➡ Disable the YouTube-reels horizontal suggestion box in search results.
Fixed
➡ Random jumping on homepage by the dynamically-generated video categories option.
➡ CSS bug on low resolution screens.
➡ Shorts redirect bug on firefox 104 and above.
➡ Hide Related results and Horizontal Card List Suggestions are now separate options user can turn off.
➡ Remove YouTube mixes from search results.
➡ Filter out channels from appearing in search results.
➡ Disable the YouTube-reels horizontal suggestion box in search results.
Fixed
➡ Random jumping on homepage by the dynamically-generated video categories option.
➡ CSS bug on low resolution screens.
➡ Shorts redirect bug on firefox 104 and above.
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Seeing folks use something you worked on (however trivial) is always encouraging. Happy browsing :)