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Shorts blocker: remove YouTube Shorts, Mixes & autoplay. Block channels and keywords, see your watch time. Private and 100% free. Hide YouTube Shorts everywhere and get a distraction-free YouTube. Focus Tube is a free Shorts blocker that also removes Mixes, autoplay, and other engagement hooks, so you watch what you came for and leave. Unofficial and independent — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. WHAT IT BLOCKS • The Shorts player — opening a /shorts/ link redirects to the normal watch page or straight home, your choice. • Shorts shelves — the carousel on Home and Subscriptions. • Shorts in search — the shelf and filter chip on search results. • Loose Shorts — individual Shorts cards in feeds, History, channel pages, and up-next. • Shorts links — the sidebar entry, filter chip, and channel tab. • Mixes — YouTube's auto-generated "Mixes for you" playlists. • Autoplay — switches autoplay off and removes the toggle. • "Explore more topics" and "Continue watching" shelves — optional. • Calm Mode — mutes YouTube's red urgency accents and notification badge, softly blurs clickbait thumbnails (hover to reveal), and stops hover-preview autoplay. • Keywords — hide any video by words in its title, channel, or description, with optional whole-word matching and 7-day auto-delete. • Blocked Channels — hide every video from a channel you pick, everywhere, including Search (unlike YouTube's own "Don't recommend channel"). WATCH STATS See where your YouTube time goes: minutes per category (Education, Entertainment, Music…), time spent by day, week, and month compared with the previous periods, and how much of your last video you actually watched. Stored only on your device. WHY Shorts, autoplay, and red badges are engagement mechanics, not neutral defaults. Focus Tube turns them off so YouTube works like a tool you use on purpose — great for studying, working, and digital wellbeing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no analytics, no servers. Nothing is ever sent to a third party. Watch Stats stays in your browser's local storage; settings sync only through Chrome's own extension sync. Privacy policy: https://github.com/bommireddy30/focus-tube/blob/main/PRIVACY.md FREE AND OPEN SOURCE Every feature is free — no tiers, no daily cap, no license key. https://github.com/bommireddy30/focus-tube Available in English, Deutsch, 日本語, and हिन्दी.