UnTrap for YouTube — Block YouTube Shorts & Remove Recommendations icon

UnTrap for YouTube — Block YouTube Shorts & Remove Recommendations

by yevhen.tretiakov

v9.8.1 Updated Mar 26, 2026 1.7MiB
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Description

UnTrap turns YouTube into a clean, focused, and intentional space. It removes distractions like Shorts, visual noise, and attention-grabbing UI elements, so you can watch content without endless scrolling or interruptions. UnTrap offers 250+ powerful features that let you fully customize how YouTube looks and behaves — from layout and content filters to automation, focus tools, and AI-powered summaries. 🧩 Shorts & scrolling, under control Short videos are one of the biggest attention traps. UnTrap lets you remove Shorts entirely or treat them as regular videos, so you stay in control without breaking your workflow. You can disable Shorts, open them in the standard player, or keep them hidden for a cleaner interface. 🧹 Clean YouTube, less noise Decide what stays and what goes. Remove related videos, comments, suggestions, live chat, notifications, buttons, sidebars, and trending sections when they pull attention away. Reduce visual noise by hiding thumbnails, overlays, promotions, and ad banners, or even the Home feed entirely. 🤖 AI-powered understanding, not endless watching Understand videos faster without watching everything. Get instant AI video summaries with key insights, timestamps, and enhanced transcripts. Jump directly to important moments, expand transcripts or descriptions, and save summaries for later — with multilingual support across content types. 🧠 A calmer focus experience UnTrap is built as a gentle focus tool, not an aggressive blocker. A calm interface and mindful controls help reduce overstimulation and support healthier viewing habits. Many users rely on it as a lightweight digital detox tool — focused on control, not restriction. ⏱ Productivity & time awareness Switch to Zen mode or a minimalist layout when working. Use built-in time awareness tools to make YouTube intentional instead of automatic. Whether you’re building productivity habits or simply trying to stay focused, UnTrap adapts to your workflow. 🎥 Player & playback, upgraded Enjoy a distraction-free player with full-window viewing, resizable layout, and precise playback controls. Adjust brightness, apply video filters, set default quality, loop content intelligently, or navigate playlists more efficiently. 🎨 Layout, UI & themes Personalize YouTube with themes, cinema mode, or full-size theater mode. Restore the old YouTube layout, use legacy list views, or switch to a minimal interface. Small tweaks like disabling ambient lighting or improving in-page search refine everyday use. 🛡 Advanced filtering & safer viewing Filter content, block unwanted videos or channels, mute topics, and apply keyword-based rules to shape your feed. UnTrap supports advanced content filtering and parental control tools to help build a safer, distraction-free environment. ⚙️ Automation & power tools Save time with smart automation. Disable autoplay, auto-skip video promotions, add intentional opening delays, set default playback speed, enable fullscreen automatically, redirect the Home page, and control YouTube with custom keyboard shortcuts. YouTube adapts to you — not the other way around. 🌍 Works across devices UnTrap works across desktop, mobile, and embedded YouTube players, making it a reliable YouTube enhancement wherever you watch.
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Reviews (43 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-16
Efe Eren Can Bakır

Doesnt work on Arc Chromium

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-16
Alic3 F0x

Nothing works on opera

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-12
V

doesnt work in brave anymore

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
Danil Salnikov

It doesn't work sadly.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
janisek

Doesn't work anymore I guess, it needs an update

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
Sreepad Vishnu Govind

stopped working today. pls fix it.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
Daren Darnell

Stopped working, if anyone has alternatives then drop them please!!!

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
Max Best

stopped working. such a banger extension it's a shame. pls fix devs we all want it

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
Pedro Henrique Nunes França

RIP Extension

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
Aria

Stopped working today

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-30
yaseen mohammed

is it just me or is it not working anymore? i used to hide all the videos on the home page- even tho ive switched on the hide suggestions button on home page it dosent seem to work? is it broken? because up until now ive been using it but suddenly today is refuses to work

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-28
Nopi (노피)

Not working

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-31
milchhuhn

Doesnt work 🤷

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-16
Kevin Rooney

Heard great things and was excited to check it out. Installed it, turned on "Summary" and went to a video. Clicked on the new summary link and was prompted to sign up. Did so. Was sent a confirmation email. Entered the code. Got a "Something went wrong. Try again." message. Clicked "Try again" multiple times and it just reloaded the same message (did not even get a "send again" option). Deleted extension. Complete waste of time and now they have my email address.

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-16
The Ska

Bro it is not opening and showing options

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-04
Y K

Just doesnt work 03/04/24.

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-04
kkrwko ertyui

making this review just to say these other reviews are obviously fake. 61 reviews and all 5 stars? 😂

★★☆☆☆2026-02-12
Adam

it doesnt work anymore, latest brave linux

★★☆☆☆2026-02-11
Francesco Vaccarella

stopped working all of a sudden, reinstalling doesn't fix. I'm on Dia browser on macos 26

★★☆☆☆2025-10-03
Sophie

a really good extension for youtube and it does what it says! unfortunately, i cannot recommend it as for other pages (might just be other google products?) it will sometimes make it so the page dosnt fully load, and as someone who uses google docs ALOT, this is bad. This problem isnt even one that is that hard to fix! just give the extension like 5 lines of code to check if the user is on youtube, and then if they arnt, disable the extension if this problem gets resolved, my review will be a 4 or 5, but until then, i cannot recommend

★★☆☆☆2025-09-08
Hark

It's good but it slows youtube down to a crawl, even if I turn the ad blocking off.

★★☆☆☆2025-05-15
MCWrxcked

Bro, it loads too slowly and it lags sometimes. I'll come back when its stable enough, sorry.

★★☆☆☆2025-05-10
Bikram Agarwal

Dang... that other reviewer wasn't kidding. Every single YT page took quite a while to load. Stuff were visibly loading in chunks! Can't use it in such a state.

★★☆☆☆2025-02-28
O Argumelo

The extension does very well in everything it promises but will SIGNIFICANTLY slow down your Youtube loading speed on every single page.

★★☆☆☆2024-12-03
KiraSunnight

The extension is a saver, but the thing with a progress bar for each chapter in video, which you can't turn off, is annoying

★★☆☆☆2024-09-25
Martin Picard

Was working rather well but recently a lot of features stopped working such as content filtering (useful for blocking annoying channels), and hiding shorts.

★★★☆☆2026-03-17
Zack B

really good but there is a glitch on the video player on the website on mac where the recommendations cover the actual video.

★★★☆☆2026-03-04
Briel (Gabriel de Castro)

It's missing the main thing: block infinite scrolling on YT main page.

★★★☆☆2026-02-17
CoolDude65

Dude, PLEASE update the "Hide the Graph of the Most Viewed Scenes" toggle, how I HATE being spoiled by that stupid feature!

★★★☆☆2025-12-31
Burger Chicken

stopped working idk why, seems like lots of other ppl have same issue

★★★☆☆2025-12-30
Omar

It was going well but after a few days the settings was not working and I can not block youtbe shorts. Any way I can get in touch with the help team.

★★★☆☆2025-12-30
Aryan

why this isnt hiding shorts anymore?

★★★☆☆2025-12-30
Tanuj Kumar

Mine stopped working today... It was wonderful extension.

★★★☆☆2025-09-26
Amul Star

Please give an option to hide "Members Only" videos from recommendations and search results.

★★★☆☆2025-07-14
Bruno

It's good, I do ont use most of the features since I just wanted to block channels, it doesn't block in some parts of the website so make sure to turn off suggestions categories as well, if you want a way to block channels and make youtube a good experience it is very useful, if wasn't extensions like that I would stopped using it a few years ago, at least I can watch it on desktop without their horrible recommendations.

★★★☆☆2025-06-28
zack b

it was really good, but for some reason it stopped working for me

★★★☆☆2025-02-10
口山ん

Every Youtube page loads in 10 seconds instead of 4. Unfortunately this overshadows every benefit.

★★★☆☆2024-12-12
J

Largely broken with the new youtube player/page. Share/thank buttons won't hide for example. Extension on makes being able to close live chat inconsistent, sometimes I can close it manually other times I can't at all. Please fix.

★★★☆☆2024-12-09
sent

good one but sadly known bugs aren't being fixed for months

★★★☆☆2024-12-02
Shreeyesh Manoj Bafana

An update is necessary because the video doesn't fit the screen when viewing in full mode while centering content. hope we get the solution as soon as possible

★★★☆☆2024-09-13
Muhammad Gad

great. There's a problem with hiding shorts videos in subscription page. We want another extension like this for linkedin. specialize in linkedin. Not as social focus extension.

★★★☆☆2024-09-11
janieisbored

FYI it no longer works when blocking shorts. Please update.

★★★☆☆2024-08-25
Craig F

No longer blocking Shorts on home/subscription pages. Also, I wish there was a way to mark all videos as 'watched' to have a clean page without anything on it.

Permissions (2)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 9.8.1
Updated Mar 26, 2026
Size 1.7MiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026