YT Blinders
YouTube without rabbit holes
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Details
- External ID
- 1272301
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- YT Blinders
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7646442052285755
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, YouTube
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
YT Blinders is a Chrome extension that strips away algorithmic traps on Youtube's home feeds, recommended sidebars, comments, and Shorts, so you watch only what you searched for. Completely free, open source, with zero tracking or data collection. https://github.com/sanathusk/yt-blinders
Enrichment
- Niche
- social media downloaders and scrapers
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- distraction blocker for youtube users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a basic open-source Chrome extension that hides specific YouTube DOM elements via CSS and simple content scripts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 99 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 100 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 219 days after the earliest competitor.
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- YT Video Downloaders · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- SafeTuber – YouTube Content Filter · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NoSuggest · hn · 2026-06-03 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- SaveNowX · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Better Twitter · ph · 2026-09-17 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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