Unbait

Unbait is a YouTube focus extension for Chrome. It makes YouTube calmer, quieter, and less clickbait-driven so you can choose a video without getting pulled around by thumbnails, Shorts, Mixes, live badges, and noisy interface chrome. It works locally on the YouTube page. No Unbait account. No backend. No AI upload. No ads injected into YouTube. Install it, open youtube.com, and use the popup. Support: https://zlatkomarjanovic.com Email: zlajaa2000@gmail.com WHAT UNBAIT IS Unbait is a distraction-free YouTube extension, a YouTube clickbait blocker, and a YouTube productivity tool. The single purpose is simple: reduce YouTube clickbait and hide the parts of the YouTube homepage, YouTube search, and YouTube watch page that exist to steal attention. If you have ever opened YouTube Home and felt the thumbnails choosing for you, this is the extension. Gray thumbnail blocks, cleaner titles, hidden Shorts, hidden Mix playlists, hidden live streams, hidden topic chips, hidden notifications, and a minimal YouTube header. Unbait runs on: https://www.youtube.com https://youtube.com https://m.youtube.com It does not run on the rest of the web. It does not ask for broad host permissions. The only Chrome permission is storage, so your YouTube focus settings stay saved. WHO IT IS FOR Unbait is for people who still use YouTube and want a cleaner YouTube experience: students who need YouTube for work and keep getting pulled into Shorts professionals who want a distraction free YouTube homepage anyone hunting a YouTube thumbnail hider, YouTube Shorts blocker, or YouTube Mix hider people who want to hide YouTube view count, hide YouTube likes, or hide YouTube comments while watching anyone who wants YouTube focus mode without deleting their account It is not a YouTube ad blocker, not a YouTube downloader, and not a YouTube premium hack. It is a local YouTube interface layer. YOUTUBE THUMBNAILS AND CLICKBAIT IMAGES Search for “hide YouTube thumbnails” or “YouTube gray thumbnails” and this is the control. Unbait can keep normal YouTube thumbnails or replace them with rounded gray blocks. Gray blocks are the default. The card size stays. The duration badge stays. The bait image goes away. This is the core YouTube clickbait defense. A lot of YouTube thumbnails are designed to provoke a click: faces, arrows, fake shock, fake red circles. Unbait replaces that image with a neutral gray block so the title has to do the work. YouTube search is different on purpose. On YouTube search results, thumbnails stay visible so you can still recognize the video you typed for. Home can be calm. Search can stay usable. That is the difference between a YouTube focus extension and a blunt YouTube blocker. YOUTUBE TITLE CLEANER Clean clickbait titles is a local YouTube title cleaner. It rewrites shouty YouTube titles in the page: removes bait phrases strips emojis cuts repeated punctuation turns ALL CAPS YouTube titles into readable sentence case keeps the words that were already in the title It does not invent a new title. It does not send the YouTube title to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or any other model. If the original YouTube title is only bait, Unbait keeps a readable version instead of fabricating a summary. Cleaned titles stay white on dark YouTube, like normal YouTube titles. HIDE YOUTUBE SHORTS Hide Shorts is a YouTube Shorts blocker for Home, search, and YouTube navigation. It can hide: YouTube Shorts shelves Shorts mixed into the YouTube homepage Shorts rows in YouTube search the Shorts item in the YouTube side menu If you want YouTube without Shorts, turn this on and leave it on. HIDE YOUTUBE LIVE AND HIDE YOUTUBE MIXES Hide live videos removes YouTube live stream cards. That includes LIVE badges, live rings on avatars, “watching” counts, and titles marked live. If you want a YouTube homepage without live streams sitting in the grid, this is the toggle. Hide YouTube Mixes removes automatic YouTube Mix playlists and radio cards. Mixes are the stacked playlist thumbnails that start autoplay. If you have been looking for a way to hide YouTube Mix, hide YouTube radio, or stop YouTube from pushing a generated playlist, this is that control. These two are on by default because live cards and Mixes are some of the highest-bait objects on the YouTube homepage. HIDE YOUTUBE COMMENTS, VIEWS, LIKES, AND SUBSCRIBERS On the YouTube watch page you can: hide YouTube comments hide YouTube view count, including the count on the video you opened hide YouTube like count, while leaving the like button there hide YouTube subscriber count This is for people who want a quieter YouTube player. The video still plays. The engagement numbers do not have to sit next to it. Hide view count is built for the video you are watching, not only the other cards on the page. HIDE YOUTUBE CREATORS AND METADATA Hide creators removes channel names and channel images on YouTube video cards, then pulls the title left so you do not get an empty avatar hole. Hide all metadata removes the extra line under a YouTube title: channel, views, upload age, and similar supporting text. The title and duration stay. You can also grayscale YouTube channel images when creators are still visible. These are YouTube decluttering controls. Use them when the face and the channel brand are doing as much pulling as the thumbnail. DISABLE YOUTUBE HOVER PREVIEWS Disable hover previews stops YouTube from playing a clip when your pointer lands on a thumbnail. The card stays still. If you hate YouTube hover autoplay, turn this on. MINIMAL YOUTUBE HEADER AND SIDE MENU Minimal header and navigation is a YouTube minimal UI mode. It can: hide the YouTube logo hide the YouTube guide button move YouTube search to the left hide the persistent YouTube side menu keep the header from covering the first row of videos The side menu does not stay open. Home, Shorts, Subscriptions, and the rest of that rail stay hidden. Move your pointer to the far left edge…