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YouTube Clean

Fewer Shorts and games. More room for your videos.

A free extension to simplify YouTube and sort YouTube Music songs by play count.

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Version 1.4.2 · 25.5 KiB
Extract the ZIP · Manual desktop installation

Features01 / 03

Choose what you see

01 / YouTube

Hide distractions

Hide recognized Shorts and Playables elements in feeds, menus and search results while preserving ordinary videos.

02 / Navigation

Keep the standard player

Redirect Playables pages to the home page. You can also open Shorts in the standard video player; that option is off by default.

03 / YouTube Music

Sort by play count

Display songs from most to least played on artist pages and playlists when counts are available. Use the “▼ Lectures” button to reapply sorting.

Installation02 / 03

Install in four steps

View the source code on GitHub · Open source · MIT

For Chrome, Edge, Brave and Opera on desktop. The extension’s interface is in French; French and English guides are included. This package is not provided for Firefox, Safari, mobile browsers or the YouTube apps.

The button downloads the package. Your browser then requires you to extract it and load it manually. No Le Sieur account or payment is required.

  1. Download and extract the ZIP. Keep the YouTube-Clean-v1.4.2 folder in a permanent location.
  2. Open the extensions page. Copy the address for your browser into its address bar:
    Chrome: chrome://extensionsEdge: edge://extensionsBrave: brave://extensionsOpera: opera://extensions
  3. Enable Developer mode. Click “Load unpacked” and select the extracted folder that directly contains manifest.json.
  4. Reload YouTube or YouTube Music. Open the YouTube Clean icon to adjust settings. “Appliquer” reloads the active tab; also reload after turning a hiding option off.

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Good to know03 / 03

Your settings, your choice

The code does not send browsing history to the creator and contains no analytics service. It reads and changes the YouTube and Music pages listed in its manifest. The “storage” permission saves preferences, which your browser may synchronize; “activeTab” is used to reload the active tab from the settings.

Shorts hiding, Playables hiding and Music sorting are on by default and can be toggled separately. Music sorting requires at least two readable counts and only covers loaded items. It does not change the saved playlist or guarantee playback order. YouTube interface changes may affect the results; this is not an ad blocker.

This package has no automatic updater: return here for a new version, then reload the extension. To uninstall, use “Remove” on the extensions page.

Independent project, not affiliated with YouTube or Google. Distributed for free under the MIT license, without warranty.

Source code on GitHub · Open source · MIT

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