Hide Shorts, Reels, Stories & Sponsored – YouTube, Facebook & Instagram

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Hide Shorts, Reels, Stories, Videos, Sponsored, Ads & Explore on YouTube, Facebook & Instagram. Pro unlocks more control. Take Control of Your Social Media Hide the distracting parts of YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram without blocking the platforms you still need. Choose exactly what you want to hide and keep the rest of your browsing experience intact. Hide YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, Stories, Sponsored Posts, Ads, and Videos, plus Instagram Reels, Stories, and Explore to create a cleaner, more focused browsing experience for work, studying, deep work, or everyday browsing. Whether you're a student, developer, remote worker, creator, or productivity enthusiast, Hide helps you reduce social media distractions, stop endless scrolling, and take back control of your attention with simple one-click controls. Free and Pro Every filter works on the free plan — YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Free: filters are on and protecting you by default — except Sponsored & Ads, which is the one you opt into. Change them freely for your first 7 days, then up to 3 filter changes per day. The popup shows a small ad and up to two partner or sponsor placements. Pro: unlimited filter changes, full per-toggle control, and a completely clean popup — no ads, no sponsor slots. Key Features YouTube • Hide YouTube Shorts from the homepage, feed, and navigation Facebook • Hide Facebook Reels from your timeline and feed • Hide Facebook Stories • Hide Facebook Sponsored posts and Ads • Hide distracting Facebook Videos Instagram • Hide Instagram Reels from your feed and navigation • Hide Instagram Stories and the Stories tray • Hide Instagram Explore links and the Explore grid Smart Blocking • Opening a hidden content link — YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, Stories or Watch, or Instagram Reels, Stories or Explore — takes you to that platform's home page instead • Hidden videos are paused so they don't continue playing audio in the background • Smooth Instagram feed — hidden Reels and Stories become compact placeholders so your feed keeps loading instead of stalling or jumping back to older posts More Control • Focus Mode to reduce distractions and improve concentration • Simple one-click controls for each platform (unlimited on Pro) • Dark / Light / Auto Mode • Lightweight and fast • Privacy-friendly — your settings stay on your device • Clean and modern interface • Ad-free popup on Pro Why Use Hide? Short-form content is designed to keep you scrolling. YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, and Instagram Reels, Stories, and Explore can interrupt your focus and create endless distraction loops. Hide helps you: • Stay focused while studying or working • Reduce mindless scrolling • Create a cleaner YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram experience • Improve concentration and digital wellbeing • Build healthier browsing habits Focus more on what matters — and less on algorithm-driven distractions. Your privacy matters. Hide does NOT: • Track your browsing activity • Record the pages you visit or the content you view • Follow you across websites • Sell your data Your filter settings are stored on your own device and are never sent to us. Free accounts: a random install ID is sent to our server to check your plan. It is not linked to any personal information. Pro accounts: your name and email are stored so we can verify your licence and provide support. Payments are handled by Freemius — we never see your card details. The free plan shows a small ad supplied by the AdsOnBread network, plus up to two partner and sponsor placements chosen by us. To show the ad, a random token that changes every 24 hours is sent to the ad network so the same ad isn't repeated. The partner and sponsor placements send nothing at all — they are simply fetched from our server. None of it is linked to you, your account, or anything you browse. Pro removes all of them. Changelog v3.1.0 • add native Chrome i18n infrastructure • localize 166 user-facing messages • add Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Indonesian, and Japanese • package locale files through the extension build • add translation length and catalog validation • verify all locales in Chrome across Free and Pro states • preserve English UI and existing extension behavior • fix text-based user ID sentinel for localization safety • document locale-specific implementation decisions v3.0.0 • Added Pro: unlimited filter changes, full per-toggle control, and a completely clean popup — no ads, no sponsor slots • Free plan now includes unlimited changes for your first 7 days, then 3 filter changes per day — every filter keeps working either way • Improved Facebook and Instagram hiding reliability • Popup redesign with account and plan status v2.6 • Moved the popup ad from the very bottom to directly below the filter toggles, above the status card. v2.5 • Hide is now free and ad-supported: a single small ad appears at the very bottom of the popup, below "Your feed, your rules". It funds continued development of the extension • The ad appears only inside the extension's own popup — nothing is added to YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram. On the pages you browse, Hide still only ever removes content • The ad network stores a random token that expires after 24 hours, used only to limit how often the same ad is shown. It is not tied to your name, account, or browsing history v2.4 • "Hide Sponsored" is now "Hide Sponsored & Ads" — the name matches what it already does. • Now clears ads from the main feed, not just the sidebar. • Hidden feed ads collapse into a small "Sponsored post hidden" card instead of vanishing, keeping the feed scrolling smoothly. Sidebar ads are removed outright • This filter now starts turned off — it's the one you opt into. Every other filter is still on by default, and current users keep theirs on v2.3 • Fixed filters not restoring their default enabled state after reinstalling the extension • New filters now respect existing user preferences instead of enabling automatically • Fixed popup opening wider than its content, removing the extra empty space v2.2 • Added a "Hide Sponsored" toggle • Removes sponsored posts from your sidebar • Removes ad posts (partially) from your feed • Stopping any ad video audio along with them v2.1 • Fixed Facebook videos continuing to play audio in the background after being hidden — hiding a video now stops it instead of only removing it from view • Fixed Hide Videos also hiding Facebook Reels: the Reels tray, reel posts, and reel pages now stay visible unless Hide Reels is turned on • Hide Videos no longer blanks a Facebook reel opened from its own link, and switching between reels and normal pages now updates instantly v2.0 • Added Instagram support: hide Reels, Stories, and Explore • Smooth Instagram feed — hidden Reels and Stories become compact placeholders, so the feed keeps loading instead of stalling or jumping back to older posts • Added an Instagram tab and app icon to the popup v1.9.1 • Fixed Facebook filtering issues on newer Facebook routes and subdomains • Improved Reels, Stories, and Watch blocking reliability for desktop Facebook pages • Fixed Youtube Shorts visibility issue v1.9 • Added an Auto option to the popup theme switcher so Light, Dark, and device-based theme selection work from the same control • Updated Facebook Reels and video selectors for more reliable hiding on newer Facebook markup v1.8 • Added an optimized lightweight build system for faster performance and cleaner extension packaging • Improved dynamic content filtering and navigation handling for YouTube and Facebook pages • Enhanced reliability when blocking Shorts, Reels, Stories, and distracting content during page refreshes • Refined popup UI with dedicated Focus Mode, Shorts, Reels, and Facebook Stories icons • Improved toggle-row alignment, icon sizing, and overall visual consistency • Minor UI polish and performance optimizations for a smoother browsing experience v1.7 • Complete popup UI redesign with a modern card-based layout • Improved toggle rows, tabs, and CTA sections • Enhanced usability and cleaner visual hierarchy • Better responsive layout and smoother interaction experience v1.6 • Added Dark Mode / Light Mode toggle • Improved popup accessibility and visual consistency • UI enhancements and smoother interactions v1.5 • Added tab system for organizing YouTube and Facebook controls • Improved navigation and settings management v1.4 • Performance optimizations and faster execution • Enhanced privacy and Chrome Web Store compliance updates • Internal stability improvements v1.3 • Improved modal interface and toggle system • Added active status indicators and count display • Refined modern UI components v1.2 • Added option to hide Facebook Stories v1.1 • Hide Facebook Reels “See more” button • Redirect Facebook Reels page to homepage v1.0 • Initial release

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