Reviews for Unhook: Remove YouTube Recommended Videos Comments
Unhook: Remove YouTube Recommended Videos Comments by Unhook
Review by geotibl
Rated 5 out of 5
by geotibl, 5 years agoThis extension pretty much gave me my life and my mind back. It seals the YouTube rabbit hole, putting YouTube under your control (unlike a simple site blocker, which just makes all of YT inaccessible.) It turns YT into a tool, rather than a site that is constantly grabbing at one's attention. For example, if you had intended to search for a video on a certain topic, you can do it without having to ignore the constant stream of irrelevant videos in which you might otherwise be genuinely interested. You won't have to expend any willpower ignoring anything just to watch what you wanted to watch.
One might say, "just use the Firefox search bar, which bypasses the homepage." Oh, it's different. If you accidentally go to youtube.com, you're covered. If you watch a video and finish, nothing prevents you from calmly thinking about what you just watched, since the sidebar and video suggestions wall are now gone and nothing is pulling you away. The feeling of peace you'll feel is profound. It reminds me of how I felt before YouTube existed.
Personal experience: After turning on Unhook, I felt great, but after a few days, I felt empty, bored. That's addiction messing with you. I still didn't feel like turning off Unhook, despite these feelings, and after several days, I felt better. I even spontaneously felt that going outside and taking a walk would better relieve my boredom. (!) It did and I was not even restless. What a wonderful feeling to peacefully enjoy the outdoors again!
You can also unseal the rabbit hole easily if you like. Just press a button and the feature you've unblocked immediately reappears. Everything is under your control.
This developer should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Price. I've donated. If you can, I unhesitatingly encourage you to do so.
One might say, "just use the Firefox search bar, which bypasses the homepage." Oh, it's different. If you accidentally go to youtube.com, you're covered. If you watch a video and finish, nothing prevents you from calmly thinking about what you just watched, since the sidebar and video suggestions wall are now gone and nothing is pulling you away. The feeling of peace you'll feel is profound. It reminds me of how I felt before YouTube existed.
Personal experience: After turning on Unhook, I felt great, but after a few days, I felt empty, bored. That's addiction messing with you. I still didn't feel like turning off Unhook, despite these feelings, and after several days, I felt better. I even spontaneously felt that going outside and taking a walk would better relieve my boredom. (!) It did and I was not even restless. What a wonderful feeling to peacefully enjoy the outdoors again!
You can also unseal the rabbit hole easily if you like. Just press a button and the feature you've unblocked immediately reappears. Everything is under your control.
This developer should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Price. I've donated. If you can, I unhesitatingly encourage you to do so.
1,118 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Inquiry, 15 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19832033, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Кирилл, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ivan, 4 days agothis extensions helps so much with using youtube intensionally. I am so grateful to the author, really!
- Rated 4 out of 5by CAJ Elevado, 6 days agoA must-have tool for those want to debloat YTube. I have this on all of my browsers.
My only critique so far is that hiding _some_ parts of the video sidebar creates a blank sidebar in pages that lack the unhidden parts; e.g. if you hide everything on the sidebar except playlists, there'd be a blank sidebar in video pages that don't have playlists. If this could be fixed (the sidebar completely hidden and the layout centered in the aforementioned video pages), the add-on would be perfect! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19817384, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mr jet, 9 days agoThis add on really work well and I love how its easy to use i add it to all of my firefox browser and they all work well, once I am financially stable I might try to donate buddy 😁😁
- Rated 5 out of 5by frank, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jjuhis, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19780307, 15 days agoFinally getting rid of all the garbage agenda youtube try to push on me. Really cleaned up the clutter.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19785890, 15 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Archons, 16 days agoThis extension is really useful for me, but it has not been updated for two years and many features like hiding end screen cards are broken.
I use "Unhook NG" now, which fixes these broken features. - Rated 5 out of 5by lastlegume, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15510897, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by messy stinkman, 18 days agoSuper customizable. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Excellent for fine-tuning a less annoying YT experience. Great extension
- Rated 5 out of 5by Guillermo Arriaga, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19218008, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by shoegazeAddict, 19 days agoAmazing!!! Altho at the moment when i enter fullscreen the video isnt fullscreen and if it continues i might send you an email. Came here from pewdiepie btw
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15565198, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fokeu, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19097911, 20 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by eduardo, 20 days agobig problem : "hide explore hides your playlists (watch later etc...) instead of hiding the explore part.
small feature i'd like added : redirecting the landing page to be subscriptions instead but still having the option to click on the home tab if you wish
otherwise great stuff - Rated 5 out of 5by Noah, 20 days ago