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UnTrap for YouTube — Block Shorts, Remove Recommendations, Detox & Focus

Chrome extension by yevhen.tretiakov · Lifestyle · Well Being

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  • Established publisher

A Chrome extension in Lifestyle · Well Being with 100 000 users, a widely installed extension.

Specific sites only: 2 match patterns.

What the developer says, and 5 screenshots

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

Users
100 000
Rating
4.5 (710 ratings)
Users, last 16 days
unchanged
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
12.0
Updated in the store
2026-09-08
Published
2023-02-14
Manifest
V3
Browser access
4 permissions, 2 site patterns

How it has moved

Users
unchanged since 01.09
100k · 10 readings
2026-09-08: released 12.0
  1. 2026-09-01100k
  2. 2026-09-02100k
  3. 2026-09-04100k
  4. 2026-09-06100k
  5. 2026-09-07100k
  6. 2026-09-09100k
  7. 2026-09-10100k
  8. 2026-09-13100k
  9. 2026-09-15100k
  10. 2026-09-16100k
Rating
-0.10 since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.48-4.58 · 10 readings
2026-09-08: released 12.0
  1. 2026-09-01reviews658rating4.58
  2. 2026-09-02reviews659rating4.58
  3. 2026-09-04reviews663rating4.58
  4. 2026-09-06reviews664rating4.57
  5. 2026-09-07reviews670rating4.58
  6. 2026-09-09reviews671rating4.58
  7. 2026-09-10reviews674rating4.57
  8. 2026-09-13reviews698rating4.52
  9. 2026-09-15reviews710rating4.48
  10. 2026-09-16reviews710rating4.48
Users
unchanged since 01.09
100k · 10 readings
2026-09-08: released 12.0
  1. 2026-09-01100k
  2. 2026-09-02100k
  3. 2026-09-04100k
  4. 2026-09-06100k
  5. 2026-09-07100k
  6. 2026-09-09100k
  7. 2026-09-10100k
  8. 2026-09-13100k
  9. 2026-09-15100k
  10. 2026-09-16100k
Rating
-0.10 since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.48-4.58 · 10 readings
2026-09-08: released 12.0
  1. 2026-09-01reviews658rating4.58
  2. 2026-09-02reviews659rating4.58
  3. 2026-09-04reviews663rating4.58
  4. 2026-09-06reviews664rating4.57
  5. 2026-09-07reviews670rating4.58
  6. 2026-09-09reviews671rating4.58
  7. 2026-09-10reviews674rating4.57
  8. 2026-09-13reviews698rating4.52
  9. 2026-09-15reviews710rating4.48
  10. 2026-09-16reviews710rating4.48

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

Specific sites only: 2 match patterns.

  • *://www.youtube.com/*
  • *://m.youtube.com/*
  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Schedule work to run later alarms
  • Open a panel beside the page sidePanel
Show the remaining 1
  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

Version history

  1. Version 12.0 · Asked for more permissions (6, was 5)

What changed recently

  1. Package size changed
  2. Asked for more permissions (6, was 5)
  3. Released version 12.0 (was 11.1)

The publisher

yevhen.tretiakov publishes 3 listings we track, 190k users between them. Listed website: untrap.app.

  1. SocialFocus — Hide Feeds, Block Shorts & Remove Distractions yevhen.tretiakov · Lifestyle · Well Being · published 2023-12-11 70k users ★ 4.6
  2. Shorts Blocker — Block YouTube Shorts yevhen.tretiakov · Lifestyle · Well Being · published 2025-12-14 20k users ★ 5.0

Like this one

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

  1. Superpower YouTube - Disable YouTube Shorts & Comments + Content Filter Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 826 users ★ 4.6
  2. FocusTube: Block YouTube Shorts, Hide Recommendations & Distractions Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 7k users ★ 4.7
  3. UnFeed – Remove YouTube Recommended, Shorts & Distractions Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 15 users
  4. YouTube Mindful Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 5 users ★ 5.0
  5. Tractube - Distraction Free Focused YouTube Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 5 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.

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