Scope: Block YouTube Shorts, Hide Distractions & Focus Mode

🎯 STOP WASTING HOURS ON YOUTUBE. START FOCUSING. Tired of falling into the YouTube rabbit hole? Scope is a free Chrome extension that blocks YouTube Shorts, removes distractions, and helps you manage your YouTube screen time intentionally. Built for students, professionals, and digital minimalists who want a calmer, more intentional YouTube experience without the algorithm deciding what you watch next. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚫 BLOCK YOUTUBE SHORTS COMPLETELY • Remove Shorts from the YouTube homepage feed • Hide the Shorts tab from the sidebar navigation • Hide the Shorts tab on every channel page • Filter Shorts out of search results • Block direct /shorts/ URLs automatically • Works on YouTube, YouTube Mobile, and embedded videos • Stop getting pulled into endless vertical videos • Break the YouTube Shorts scrolling habit for good ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏠 HOMEPAGE BLOCKER (FOCUS SCREEN) Replace YouTube's distracting homepage with a clean, calming focus screen built for intentional browsing: • Live clock and personalized greeting • Built-in search bar for intentional viewing • Quick links to Subscriptions, Watch Later, and Library • Daily blocked count and focus streak counter • Daily rotating motivational quote • Zero thumbnails, zero algorithm pull ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ SCHEDULED FOCUS MODE Automatic, hands-free focus hours for better YouTube screen time management: • Set specific start and end times • Scope auto-enables focus mode during work or study time • Auto-disables outside those hours so you can relax later • Manual override respected within each session • No willpower needed, the schedule does the work for you ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧘 FOCUS MODE TOOLKIT Pick exactly which distractions to remove for a cleaner YouTube experience: • Hide the comments section to avoid negativity and time loss • Hide the recommendations sidebar on watch pages • Hide end cards and end screen overlays (works on embedded videos too) • Hide live streams from your feed • Blur thumbnails for anti-clickbait protection (unblur on hover) • Pause moving thumbnail previews to reduce impulse clicks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 WEEKLY FOCUS REPORT (NEW IN V2.1) Every Monday morning, Scope shows you a beautiful weekly summary to track your digital wellbeing progress: • Total Shorts blocked over the past 7 days • Day-by-day bar chart of your focus week • Comparison with the previous week (up or down %) • Highlights your best focus day • Celebrates clean weeks where you blocked zero distractions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 FOCUS STREAK TRACKING • Daily streak counter visible on the focus screen • See exactly how many days in a row you stayed intentional • Build a focus habit you can actually see grow over time ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔘 ONE-CLICK MASTER CONTROL • Big power button to pause everything instantly • Live blocked count badge on the toolbar icon • Reset to defaults with a single click • Settings sync across your devices via your Chrome account ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ WHY CHOOSE SCOPE 🪶 Ultra-lightweight at around 33 KB total 🔒 100% privacy-first, no tracking, no analytics, no accounts required 🎨 Clean modern dark theme that is easy on the eyes ⚡ Works instantly with zero setup needed 🆓 Completely free with no ads, no premium tier, no hidden upsells 🌍 Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and all Chromium browsers 🛠️ Manifest V3 compliant and built to last 🧠 Helps rebuild attention span and break the algorithm cycle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👥 PERFECT FOR 📚 Students who actually want to study using YouTube 💼 Professionals avoiding rabbit holes during work hours 👨‍👩‍👧 Parents creating a calmer YouTube for the whole family 🧘 Digital minimalists practicing intentional viewing habits 🎬 Content creators doing research without falling into Shorts 🧠 People with ADHD managing focus, attention, and screen time 💪 Anyone trying to break the YouTube Shorts scrolling addiction 🕐 People serious about YouTube time management and productivity ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆕 WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 2.1 • Weekly focus reports with day-by-day charts • Blur thumbnails for anti-clickbait protection • Daily focus streak tracking • Improved homepage focus screen with live clock and quotes • Smarter scheduled focus that respects manual overrides • Better master toggle that pauses all focus features instantly • Works on YouTube Mobile and embedded videos • Improved performance on long browsing sessions • Per-week tracking that resets correctly even if you skip a day ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS Scope is built privacy-first from day one: • Collects zero personal data • Uses no trackers and no analytics • Requires no accounts and no sign-up • Everything stays on your device locally • Open and transparent operation • Read the full policy at https://getscope.site/privacy-policy.html ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 LEARN MORE 🔗 Website: https://getscope.site 📝 Changelog: https://getscope.site/changelog.html 🐛 Report a bug: https://getscope.site/feedback.html ⭐ Leave a review: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scope-block-youtube-short/hfpoloaknekbafidkajeldgpmmmdbfdf/reviews ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📥 INSTALL NOW Click "Add to Chrome" and take back control of your YouTube experience. Free forever. No sign-up. No catch. 💬 QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? Use the Report button inside the extension or leave a review on the Chrome Web Store. Every piece of feedback genuinely shapes the next update.