Zenyt is a calm, free, and open-source Chrome extension for removing distracting parts of YouTube. Every filter is optional, settings sync through Chrome, and the whole extension can be paused without losing your choices.
- Hide the homepage recommendation feed while keeping search and navigation
- Hide the notification bell
- Hide Shorts shelves, cards, channel tabs, and sidebar links
- Hide subscriptions, including the subscribed-channel list
- Reduce the sidebar to You/Library, history, playlists, Watch Later, and liked videos
- Disable autoplay after full page loads and YouTube's in-page navigation
- Hide end-screen recommendations while preserving replay and player controls
- Hide related videos and center the player in a focused layout
- Independently hide comments, live chat, playlist panels, and shopping shelves
- Open playlist videos standalone by removing
list,index, andstart_radio
The Hide Shorts videos filter is marked unstable because YouTube frequently changes its layouts and renderer names.
- Download or clone this repository.
- Open
chrome://extensionsin Chrome. - Enable Developer mode.
- Choose Load unpacked and select this directory.
- Pin Zenyt, open its popup, and enable the filters you want.
After changing source files, reload Zenyt from chrome://extensions and refresh existing YouTube tabs.
Zenyt uses a Manifest V3 content script. Visual filters are CSS rules activated by settings attributes on the page root. JavaScript is used only for settings, autoplay handling, YouTube SPA navigation, and playlist URL cleanup.
Zenyt requests only Chrome's storage permission and access to YouTube pages. It has no analytics, ads, remote code, or data collection. See PRIVACY.md.
Zenyt supports Chrome 105 and newer. Other Chromium browsers may work but are not currently tested.