YouTube guides
Take back control of your YouTube feed
YouTube's recommendation algorithm is designed to maximize watch time, not your goals. These guides cover every technique for taking back control — from hiding the home feed entirely to blocking Shorts, disabling autoplay, and filtering what the algorithm surfaces.
Guides
- Hub Featured
How to Control Your YouTube Feed: The Complete 2026 Guide
YouTube's algorithm can't be turned off — but every surface that drives compulsive watching can be removed. Home feed, Shorts, sidebar, autoplay, and end screens: how to remove each one.
- How-to
How to Remove the YouTube Home Feed (2026)
The YouTube homepage shows algorithmically-selected content — here's how to replace it with search and subscriptions only, in under two minutes.
- How-to
How to Turn Off YouTube Autoplay Permanently (2026)
YouTube's autoplay toggle resets itself every few weeks by design. Here's the permanent fix — and why the native toggle isn't enough.
- Roundup
Best YouTube Feed Blockers and Controllers in 2026
Every extension worth installing for controlling the YouTube feed — Unhook, News Feed Eradicator, and uBlock Origin compared, with the right setup for each use case.
Tools
Browser extensions and apps that modify or remove parts of the YouTube UI.
- 4.7 / 5
Unhook
Strip recommendations, Shorts, comments, and the homepage feed from YouTube — keep search and subscriptions
- 4.3 / 5
News Feed Eradicator
Replace your social media feeds with an inspirational quote — across every major platform
- 4.0 / 5
DF YouTube
Free browser extension that removes YouTube's home feed, Shorts, sidebar, and end screens independently
Comparisons
Side-by-side breakdowns for the main YouTube feed control extensions.
Use cases
Specific fixes — hiding Shorts, recommendations, autoplay, and more.
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