Ext Ops Panel
Open the app

YouTube Clean: Block Shorts, Filter Recommendations & Skip Ads

Chrome extension by 2kit.app · Productivity · Workflow

  • Featured
  • Established publisher

A Chrome extension in Productivity · Workflow with 1 000 users, a small but real audience.

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

What the developer says, and 5 screenshots

Loading from the Chrome Web Store. Open the listing if it does not appear.

Users
1 000
Rating
4.9 (14 ratings)
Users, last 17 days
unchanged
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
1.0.57
Updated in the store
2026-09-14
Published
2026-05-13
Manifest
V3
Browser access
2 permissions

How it has moved

Users
unchanged since 01.09
1k · 6 readings
2026-09-06: released 1.0.532026-09-14: released 1.0.57
  1. 2026-09-011k
  2. 2026-09-061kreleased 1.0.53
  3. 2026-09-071k
  4. 2026-09-151k
  5. 2026-09-161k
  6. 2026-09-171k
Rating
-0.07 since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.86-5.00 · 6 readings
2026-09-06: released 1.0.532026-09-14: released 1.0.57
  1. 2026-09-01reviews11rating5.00
  2. 2026-09-06reviews11rating4.91released 1.0.53
  3. 2026-09-07reviews12rating4.92
  4. 2026-09-15reviews14rating4.86
  5. 2026-09-16reviews14rating4.93
  6. 2026-09-17reviews14rating4.93
Users
unchanged since 01.09
1k · 6 readings
2026-09-06: released 1.0.532026-09-14: released 1.0.57
  1. 2026-09-011k
  2. 2026-09-061kreleased 1.0.53
  3. 2026-09-071k
  4. 2026-09-151k
  5. 2026-09-161k
  6. 2026-09-171k
Rating
-0.07 since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.86-5.00 · 6 readings
2026-09-06: released 1.0.532026-09-14: released 1.0.57
  1. 2026-09-01reviews11rating5.00
  2. 2026-09-06reviews11rating4.91released 1.0.53
  3. 2026-09-07reviews12rating4.92
  4. 2026-09-15reviews14rating4.86
  5. 2026-09-16reviews14rating4.93
  6. 2026-09-17reviews14rating4.93

A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing more than once a day and record a point only when something moves. History beyond ninety days is in the app.

What it can reach

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

  • Open a panel beside the page sidePanel
  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

Version history

  1. Version 1.0.57
  2. Version 1.0.53

What changed recently

  1. Package size changed
  2. Store description rewritten (126 → 123 characters)
  3. Renamed from "YouTube Clean: Hide Shorts & Recommendations" to "YouTube Clean: Block Shorts, Filter Recommendations & Skip Ads"
Show the remaining 5
  1. Released version 1.0.57 (was 1.0.53)
  2. Package size changed
  3. Store description rewritten (124 → 126 characters)
  4. Renamed from "YouTube Clean: Block Shorts, Hide Recommendations, Skip Ads | Focus" to "YouTube Clean: Hide Shorts & Recommendations"
  5. Released version 1.0.53 (was 1.0.49)

The publisher

2kit.app publishes 5 listings we track, 2k users between them. Listed website: 2kit.app.

  1. GitHub Directory Downloader: Download Folders, Files & ZIPs 2kit.app · Productivity · Tools · published 2026-04-01 568 users ★ 5.0
  2. Sidebar Calc: Scientific Calculator 2kit.app · Productivity · Tools · published 2025-01-08 471 users ★ 4.6
  3. CopyHub: Clipboard History & Copy Paste Manager 2kit.app · Productivity · Tools · published 2026-04-06 57 users ★ 5.0
Show 1 more from this publisher
  1. SiteBlockade: Website Blocker & Focus Mode 2kit.app · Productivity · Workflow · published 2023-06-20 3 users (last published figure)

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. Clean YouTube: Block Shorts, Hide Comments & Feeds Describes nearly the same job, with an established audience 30k users ★ 4.8
  2. FluxTube – Focus & Cleanup Tools for YouTube Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 23 users ★ 5.0
  3. UnFeed – Remove YouTube Recommended, Shorts & Distractions Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 15 users
  4. FeedCleaner for YouTube Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 4 users
  5. PurifyYT – Hide Shorts, Block Distractions, Stay Focused Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 12 users ★ 5.0

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.

Is this your extension?

Connect it to Ext Ops Panel and see installs, uninstalls and uninstall reasons as events arrive, not as a weekly summary.

See what the panel does

Figures come from our own daily pass over the public Chrome Web Store listing, last read on . We publish no contact details for extension developers.