YouTube Essentials (Locked)

YouTube Essentials strips away the distracting parts of YouTube while keeping everything you actually need. It hides the home feed's recommendation grid (replacing it with a simple search prompt), removes Shorts from the sidebar, search results, and home feed, disables autoplay, hides end-of-video and mid-pause recommendation grids, and hides comments. Search, direct video links, playlists, and normal playback are completely unaffected — this only removes the parts of YouTube designed to keep you scrolling.