block_everything_yt

Firefox addon that blocks manipulative elements on YouTube

Note

This addon is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, given YouTube's ongoing transition to "web application" rather than "website" format. At this point, I'd really recommend using an alternative YT front-end -- although on that note, I feel that Invidious and FreeTube are deeply deficient, at least regarding customizability (hiding comments, ratings, view counts, etc)

Addon info

Originally forked from mverleg's "Block Comments"

This addon blocks anything which is primarily, rather than content, something to influence the way we feel about what we're seeing. It blocks: comments, ratings, view counts, subscriber counts, "official" "warnings" under news media (X organization is good, Y organization is bad, based on whether the US is friendly with that country or not), and indiscriminately-pushed political campaigns hosted on the homepage.

To install:

From this repo (latest version): Compress these files into a .zip folder (with manifest.json at the root of the .zip folder), go to about:addons in Firefox Developer Edition and click "Install addon from file", and select the .zip folder

From Mozilla: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-everything-yt/

Some people might rather have the original mverleg addon, which only blocks comments under videos ( https://github.com/mverleg/block_comments )