YTFilter

Tired of YouTube's home feed being full of clickbait, ALL-CAPS titles, and random low-effort Shorts? YTFilter hides the video cards that don't meet thresholds you set — quietly, locally, in real time — on the home feed, search results, subscriptions, sidebar, and channel pages. YTFilter works entirely inside your browser. There's no sign-up, no account, no dashboard — install it, open the popup on any YouTube tab, and start adjusting sliders. Every change applies instantly to the page you're looking at and is remembered for next time. HOW IT WORKS YTFilter reads the same view count, upload date, duration, and title text that's already visible on each video card and hides any card that fails your current rules. When you turn on the subscriber filter, it also looks up each channel's subscriber count once (cached for 12 hours) since YouTube doesn't expose that number on the card itself. Nothing is analyzed on a server — every decision is made in your browser. FEATURES - Minimum view count (7 steps, from 1K to 100M+) - Minimum views-per-day — surfaces steady performers, filters thin viral spikes - Upload date window — last 24 hours, week, month, 6 months, or year - Duration range — set a minimum, a maximum, or both (in minutes) - Minimum subscriber count per channel (7 steps, from 1K to 100M+) - Channel whitelist — always show specific channels, no matter what - Keyword blocklist — hide titles containing words or phrases you choose - ALL-CAPS / clickbait-style title detection - One-click "Hide Shorts" toggle - Three built-in presets (Casual, Research, Strict) plus Reset - Dim mode — fade filtered videos instead of removing them, so you can see what's being caught without losing your place on the page - On/off master switch and a live "N videos hidden" counter WORKS EVERYWHERE ON YOUTUBE Filtering runs on the home feed, search results, Subscriptions, the sidebar/ Up Next list, and channel page grids. It re-runs automatically as you scroll (infinite loading) and as you navigate between pages, so filtered videos stay hidden without a manual refresh. PRIVACY YTFilter collects nothing. There is no backend server, no account system, no analytics, and no ad network. Your filter settings are saved with Chrome's own sync storage (so they follow you across your signed-in devices) and never pass through YTFilter. The only network requests YTFilter makes are to YouTube itself, to read a channel's subscriber count when that filter is on. Full policy: see the Privacy link in the extension's popup footer. PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED - storage — save your filter settings and subscriber-count cache locally - tabs — send your filter changes from the popup to the active YouTube tab, and clear the toolbar badge when you navigate away from YouTube - youtube.com — inject the filter and read channel pages for subscriber counts YTFilter is an independent extension and isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. "YouTube" is a trademark of Google LLC, referenced here only to describe compatibility.