Distraction Free YouTube — AI Filter | Hide Shorts & Recommendations

NeuroFilterAI THE SMARTEST DISTRACTION-FREE YOUTUBE EXTENSION — POWERED BY ON-DEVICE AI Stop falling into YouTube rabbit holes. NeuroFilterAI is the world's first Chrome extension to use on-device artificial intelligence to analyze every YouTube video and remove distractions based on your actual interests — not just keywords or channel names. Unlike Unhook, DF Tube, UnTrap, or BlockTube which simply hide interface elements, NeuroFilterAI understands what each video is actually about. Tell it your focus topics — coding, physics, machine learning, JEE prep, startup research, fitness — and it scores every recommendation from 0–100, blurring or hiding anything that doesn't match your intent. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY NEUROFILTERAI IS DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER YOUTUBE BLOCKER Most distraction-free YouTube extensions are blunt instruments. They hide the sidebar. They remove the homepage. They block URLs. That's the 2015 approach. NeuroFilterAI is the 2025 approach. Using semantic AI (running 100% on your device), it reads the meaning behind each video title and description — then scores it against your interests. A video about "neural networks" still matches if your focus topic is "AI" even if the exact word "AI" doesn't appear. This means: AI Semantic Filtering — understands content meaning, not just keywords Interest-Based Control — you define what stays and what disappears Smart Relevance Scoring — 0–100 score per video based on your topics Adjustable Strictness — gentle filter to laser-focused, your choice 100% Private — zero data leaves your device. No servers. No tracking. Manifest V3 Compliant — works reliably on all modern Chrome versions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOCUS MODE — 25+ DISTRACTION CONTROLS Beyond AI filtering, NeuroFilterAI includes a powerful Focus Mode with granular controls: • Hide YouTube Shorts from homepage, sidebar, and search results • Remove recommendations and sidebar suggestions entirely • Block the YouTube homepage feed (search-only mode) • Hide comments section to stop the argument spiral • Disable autoplay to stop the endless loop • Remove end screen cards and annotations • Hide the trending tab and notification bell • Remove "Up Next" and related video panels • Hide subscriber counts for mindful browsing • Remove video view counts (stops clickbait signaling) • Custom YouTube clean mode with minimal UI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFECT FOR STUDENTS, PROFESSIONALS & ANYONE FIGHTING DISTRACTION STUDENTS: Perfect for exam preparation — all competitive exams (JEE, NEET, SAT, UPSC, GAOKAO). Browse YouTube for lecture content without getting pulled into entertainment. Keep physics, math, chemistry, biology, and study content visible while blocking distracting recommendations. DEVELOPERS & PROGRAMMERS: Use YouTube for coding tutorials, system design, machine learning, software engineering, and technical deep-dives without getting sidetracked. Set your interests to coding, Python, JavaScript, system design, DSA, or AI. RESEARCHERS: Browse YouTube as a research tool without the recommendation algorithm pulling you toward entertainment. Filter for academic, scientific, and professional content only. REMOTE WORKERS & PROFESSIONALS: YouTube is increasingly used for professional learning — but the algorithm doesn't know the difference between your deep work time and your leisure time. NeuroFilterAI does. ADHD USERS: Reduced visual stimulation and AI-filtered recommendations help maintain focus during intentional YouTube sessions. DIGITAL MINIMALISTS: For anyone practicing intentional technology use, digital wellbeing, or nosurf principles — NeuroFilterAI makes YouTube a tool instead of a trap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY-FIRST ARCHITECTURE — NO DATA EVER LEAVES YOUR DEVICE • AI model runs entirely inside your browser — no API calls to external servers • No browsing history is ever collected or sent • No video watch data leaves your device • No account required for core AI filtering features • Your interest topics are stored locally in your browser • Compliant with Chrome Manifest V3 security standards ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS — 5 STEPS 1. Install the extension (takes under 10 seconds) 2. Enter your focus topics — e.g. "machine learning", "JEE maths", "startup strategy" 3. Optionally add disinterest topics — things you want the AI to deprioritize 4. Set your strictness level — from gentle to strict 5. Open YouTube — the AI immediately starts scoring and filtering recommendations You can still reveal hidden videos with one click if you change your mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO UNHOOK, DF TUBE, OR BLOCKTUBE? Unhook is great for hiding UI — but it can't understand what a video is about. DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube) is largely abandoned and no longer reliably updated. BlockTube lets you block channels and keywords — but can't handle semantic meaning. UnTrap for YouTube has many features but takes a blanket blocking approach. NeuroFilterAI solves what none of them can: • Goes beyond UI hiding to understand video content semantically • Filters based on YOUR specific topics, not generic on/off toggles • Actively maintained — Manifest V3 architecture • Combines AI filtering + manual UI controls ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT & FEEDBACK If NeuroFilterAI has helped you stay focused — please leave a review. It helps other students, professionals, and productivity seekers find this tool. Made with ❤️ by a student who built this to solve their own YouTube addictions during exam prep. NeuroFilterAI — Use YouTube on purpose. Not by accident.