Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to De-Mainstream YouTube™
A browser extension to remove Mainstream Media from YouTube
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. De-Mainstream YouTube™ launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Remove YouTube recommendations, comments, and more
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension which blocks requests to sites which have used legal threats to remove themselves from other blacklists. - paulgb/BarbBlock
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I recently released a new browser extension for YouTube, which in addition to the table stakes of hiding the existence of Shorts, hiding promoted content, automatically skipping ads, hiding useless/unused UI elements, hiding unwanted channels YouTube keeps recommending to you, letting you hide algorithmic suggestions etc. etc., makes other changes I've always wanted as a user, in the same vein as one of my other extensions, Control Panel for Twitter. The most significant of those is attempting to make your Subscriptions page more like an Inbox, by hiding videos you've already…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Trump Filter▲222Chrome extension that removes Donald Trump from the internet
2015 · trumpfilter.com · its alternatives →
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YouFilter▲67Free chrome extension to filter YouTube search results
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hide spoilers, profanity, politics, distractions by keywords
Nov 2025 · filter-everything-online.com · its alternatives →
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Remove Shorts videos from YouTube
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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There has been many recent discoveries (including the leak) about how 16 media companies dominated Google Search results, abusing their status to rank very high on a bunch of garbage they put out. And like that saying goes, I can't change the world, but I can change myself. I don't want to look at their bullshit anymore when I search for food recipes or product reviews. So this extension is my way of protesting. Full write up: https://thesolofoundernewsletter.com/p/secondpage
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Block youtube ads, text, popup videos automatically
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Search YouTube without stopping the video
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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View the metadata and transcripts of removed YouTube videos
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hide YouTube views, likes, comments, and/or subscribers
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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UnDistracted▲134Selectively block features of time wasting sites in chrome
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Block (Some) YouTube Pre-Roll Video Ads. Contribute to KyleBenzle/DotYouTube development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 18IC
2023 · native-video.com · its alternatives →
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Search any YouTube video like a document.
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Extension to search for videos without leaving the page
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Google sends 16 large media brands (588 individual brands) a combined 3 billion+ clicks per month. They rank first page on 85% of all searches. They are inundating the web with things like subpar product recommendations, AI written listicles, and cookie cutter reviews. I don't like that, so I made an open source extension that blocks all of them from search results. (I'm not a developer, and I made this with Claude Opus's help)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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FocusTube▲112Blur YouTube thumbnails and titles
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Filter YouTube. Hide channels, block keywords, regain focus.
Dec 2025 · ytfilter.lovable.app · its alternatives →
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