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LessTube: Hide YouTube Shorts & Distractions

5,000 users Rated 5.00 from 4 ratings Last updated 20 Oct 2026

By CayooDev Live in the Chrome Web Store oloemmfdfdnempbpiockejbckckjffci Search Google ↗ Last checked 21 Oct 2026, 05:59 UTC

The listing

What the Chrome Web Store shows, as of the last check

Hide Shorts, comments and recommendations on YouTube. Grayscale, custom grid, blur thumbnails. Free, no account, no tracking.Summary from the listing
Developer
CayooDev
Enhanced Safe Browsing
Not trusted. What this means →
Category
Productivity › Tools
First published
10 Oct 2026
Last updated
20 Oct 2026
Version
1.0.9
Size
122 KiB
Minimum Chrome
105
Languages
13 languages

Deutsch, English, Indonesia, español, français, polski, português (Brasil), русский, العربية, हिन्दी, 中文（中国）, 日本語, 한국어

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Users over time As shown on the Chrome Web Store
2K4KTracking began 13 Oct 202613 Oct15 Oct17 Oct19 Oct21 Oct2026-10-13: 3 users2026-10-14: 3 users2026-10-16: 175 users2026-10-17: 745 users2026-10-19: 1,000 users2026-10-21: 5,000 users2026-10-21: new version2026-10-19: new version2026-10-16: new version2026-10-14: new version2026-10-13: new version5,0002K4KTracking began13 Oct16 Oct19 Oct2026-10-13: 3 users2026-10-14: 3 users2026-10-16: 175 users2026-10-17: 745 users2026-10-19: 1,000 users2026-10-21: 5,000 users2026-10-21: new version2026-10-19: new version2026-10-16: new version2026-10-14: new version2026-10-13: new version5K
Average rating
4.804.905.0016 Oct18 Oct20 Oct5.004.804.905.0016 Oct18 Oct20 Oct5.00
Number of ratings
3416 Oct18 Oct20 Oct43416 Oct18 Oct20 Oct4
New version One point per check. Source: the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing.
Show the numbers
CheckedUsersRatingRatings
2026-10-215,0005.004
2026-10-191,0005.004
2026-10-177455.003
2026-10-161755.003
2026-10-143––
2026-10-133––
2026-10-11–––
Users, 7 days
No change
since a week ago
Users, 30 days
–
needs a month of history
Rank
#10,116
by users, of 289,024 extensions
In its category
#2,410
of 114,373 in Tools

What changed

Every change found on a check, newest first

  1. New version 1.0.9, replacing 1.0.7.

  2. New version 1.0.7, replacing 1.0.5.

    Renamed from “LessTube: Hide YouTube Shorts, Comments & Distractions” to “LessTube: Hide YouTube Shorts & Distractions”.

  3. The developer's contact email changed.

  4. New version 1.0.5, replacing 1.0.4.

    Renamed from “LessTube — YouTube Cleaner & Customizer” to “LessTube: Hide YouTube Shorts, Comments & Distractions”.

    The summary on the listing changed.

  5. New version 1.0.4, replacing 1.0.3.

  6. New version 1.0.3, replacing 1.0.0.

Developer history

Moves to another publisher account and new contact emails, newest first

  1. The contact email changed.

We know contact emails only by a keyed hash, so they're never shown. Recent account and contact changes →

What it can access

From the extension's manifest, in plain language

Sites where it runs scripts
  • https://www.youtube.com/*www.youtube.com
Browser features
  • storageSave settings and data in your browser

About this data

Collected from the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing. It's checked again 7 and 30 days after it was published, and again whenever a new version appears. Last checked 21 Oct 2026, 05:59 UTC; next check around 9 Nov 2026.

How we collect the data

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Citation
Extension Tracker. “LessTube: Hide YouTube Shorts & Distractions” (oloemmfdfdnempbpiockejbckckjffci). Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-10-21. https://extensiontracker.com/extension/oloemmfdfdnempbpiockejbckckjffci. Accessed 2026-11-08.
BibTeX
@misc{extensiontracker_oloemmfdfdnempbpiockejbckckjffci,
  title   = {LessTube: Hide YouTube Shorts & Distractions (oloemmfdfdnempbpiockejbckckjffci)},
  author  = {{Extension Tracker}},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-10-21},
  url     = {https://extensiontracker.com/extension/oloemmfdfdnempbpiockejbckckjffci},
  urldate = {2026-11-08}
}

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