Home page
Decide what greets you when YouTube opens.
- Hide the home feed
- Limit the feed to a number of videos
- Set the grid to 1–3 rows or 1–8 columns
- Open Home on Subscriptions, History, Watch Later, Liked videos or Library
- Hide the topic chips
247+ individual switches
Every YouNo feature
Everything below can be switched on or off on its own. Open the popup and search for any of it by name.
The main controls
These sit at the top of the popup and cover the parts of YouTube most people want to change first.
Left navigation
Keep the menu short.
- Auto-collapse the sidebar
- Auto-expand sidebar lists
- Hide “More from YouTube”
- Hide Explore and Trending
- Hide Subscriptions
Header
Trim the top bar.
- Hide the whole top header
- Hide notifications
- Hide search suggestions
Video page
Watch the video and nothing else.
- Hide the video sidebar and recommended videos
- Hide live chat, playlists, fundraisers and mixes
- Hide end-screen feed and cards
- Hide comments and comment profile photos
- Hide merch, tickets and offers
- Hide video info, the button bar, the channel row and the description
- Disable autoplay and annotations
- Auto theater mode, auto-expand description, automatic chapters
Video items
Change how every video card looks.
- Show, dim or hide videos you have watched (you choose the % and where it applies)
- Thumbnails: normal, blur, grayscale or hide, with an amount and opacity
- Replace thumbnails with a frame from the video itself
- Title text: capitalise, lower or UPPER case
- No autoplay preview on hover
Search
Find things without the noise.
- Hide extra shelves and card lists in search results
- Sort results by upload date, view count or rating
Channel pages
Open channels where you want.
- Channel opens on Videos, Shorts, Live, Playlists…
- Hide the Community, Store, Live, Playlists, Podcasts, Releases and Channels tabs
Shorts
Your call on short-form video.
- Hide Shorts
- Lock Shorts scrolling
- Open Shorts in the normal player
Appearance
Make YouTube look the way you like.
- Font: YouTube default, classic, serif, monospace — or any Google font
- Custom accent colour
- Custom background colour
Global
Tweaks that apply everywhere.
- Hide pop-ups and promos
- Hide banner ads
- Fixed video quality from 144p to 4K
- Use the browser’s native video controls
Fine-grained switches
On top of the main controls, YouNo has 247 more switches for individual buttons, labels and sections. Each one hides exactly one thing.
Player controls 26
Under the video 32
Video page layout 6
Video cards 19
Home and search 25
Channel page 19
Channel home sections 10
Mobile site (m.youtube.com) 13
Header 13
Shorts page 16
You page 7
Also built in
- Presets — save any setup and switch in one tap.
- Schedules — apply one preset during chosen hours and days, another the rest of the time.
- Export & import — back up your settings to a file and load them on another computer.
- Side panel — keep YouNo open beside the page.
- Dark & light theme for the popup.
- Check this page — a built-in diagnostic that lists switches finding nothing on the current YouTube page.
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