I use YouTube as much as the next person, but I’m not sure how many feel the frustration from the following experience:
Go on YouTube, do a search and see a few of the actual results from your query and 10x more of other recommended results, e.g. Related results, What others watched, Previously watched, Continue watching… etc. and unfortunately, the current UX (just so I don’t call out on the intentionally misleading UX) is quite difficult to see which is your result and which is some related one.
Alas, this is not optional. There is no YouTube setting “I want to see what I want to see”. So I had two classic options, ditch it or fix it.
There are browser extensions that can already clean your search results and remove the recommended (kudos to them), however, they do a ton of other things and I find that it wastes resources and does too much for my taste.
Thus, I built my own extension that does nothing else but this. It injects some css that targets all those recommended sections and hides them. It is lightweight and you can always toggle them back on as they are never removed, just hidden.
You can find it here: YouTube Clean Results
It is also open-source and you can find the repo on my GitHub
I understand YouTube’s business model, the interest is to keep you in there, and… it works. I look for gpt4o new iterations. And 5 minutes later I’m watching how to make delicious healthy spinach pancakes. Which I made, and were great!
I could have lived without those pancakes though…
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