About Unhook
Unhook makes YouTube a tool again. You can still search and watch what you came for, but the feed that pulls you onward is gone. From a small popup you can hide the home feed, related videos, Shorts, end-screen suggestions, comments, the trending tab, live chat and playlists, and turn off autoplay and annotations.
Each option is its own switch, so you decide how bare YouTube should look. It works on desktop, on mobile YouTube through Firefox for Android, and on embedded videos. Unhook is free, and the Chrome store label says the developer does not collect or use your data. On Firefox it asks for access to YouTube only, not to all websites.
The privacy policy says the extension keeps data in local browser storage and transmits nothing, while the website uses Google Analytics. The code is closed, so we cannot check that claim against source. We could not confirm a Safari version. Updates are slower than for some picks here, and because YouTube changes its page often, a few settings may break until an update lands. If you want feeds removed on other sites too, pair it with News Feed Eradicator.
Pros and cons
- Separate switches for Shorts, home feed, related videos, comments and more
- Free, with a Recommended badge and about 170,000 users on Firefox
- Works on mobile YouTube through Firefox on Android, and on embeds
- Privacy policy says no data is transmitted or collected
- YouTube only; it does nothing for other sites
- Closed source, so the privacy claim cannot be checked in code
- No Safari version that we could confirm
Permissions
On Firefox it asks for access to youtube.com and m.youtube.com only, plus storage and web request. It does not request access to all websites.
