FreezeTube – Stop YouTube Auto-Refresh

FreezeTube locks your YouTube homepage feed so it stays exactly as you left it — no more losing your recommendations every time you click a video and hit Back. Most people don't realise YouTube silently refreshes your homepage feed whenever you return to it. FreezeTube intercepts that refresh and serves you back the same feed you started with — your picks, not the algorithm's latest push. ────────────────────────────────────────── CORE FEATURES ────────────────────────────────────────── -🧊 Freeze Feed Lock your homepage to a static snapshot. Hit Back from any video and land exactly where you left off — same videos, same scroll position. -🔄 New Batch (one-click refresh) When you're ready for fresh recommendations, one click wipes the freeze and loads a brand-new feed. -📜 Unlimited Scroll In Unlimited mode, scroll naturally through your entire frozen feed. New batches load as you scroll, and every video you've passed is saved — even if you refresh Chrome. -🚫 Block Shorts Redirect all Shorts links back to the homepage and hide Shorts shelves from your feed entirely. -👁 Hide Sidebar Recommendations Remove the "Up next" panel while watching a video so you can focus on what you chose to watch, not what YouTube wants you to watch next. -🎬 Hide End Cards Strip the clickbait thumbnails that appear in the last 20 seconds of every video. -⚙️ Set a Video Limit Prefer a curated feed? Set a hard cap of 6, 12, or 18 videos — or zero for a completely blank homepage. ────────────────────────────────────────── WHY IT EXISTS ────────────────────────────────────────── YouTube's recommendation algorithm is designed to maximise watch time, not your time. Every refresh is a new optimisation attempt. FreezeTube removes that variable entirely — you decide when you see new recommendations. Built for digital minimalists, focus workers, and anyone tired of losing their place. ────────────────────────────────────────── PRIVACY ────────────────────────────────────────── FreezeTube stores your settings and your frozen feed locally in your browser. No data is ever sent to any server. No account required. Permissions used: - storage – saves your settings and frozen feed locally - scripting – injects the freeze logic into YouTube - tabs – detects when you're on YouTube to apply settings