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Hide Shorts Reels Stories

👥 10K+ users
📦 v1.7
💾 139KiB
📅 2026-05-03
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Overview

Hide Shorts, Reels & Stories is a productivity-focused Chrome extension that helps you remove distracting short-form content from YouTube and Facebook so you can stay focused while browsing.

Instead of constantly getting pulled into YouTube Shorts or Facebook Reels, you can instantly hide them and enjoy a cleaner, distraction-free browsing experience.

NEW: Dark Mode & Light Mode
You can now switch between dark and light themes directly from the extension interface for a better visual experience.

Key Features:

• Hide YouTube Shorts from your feed and navigation
• Hide Facebook Reels from your timeline
• Hide Facebook Stories from your feed
• Hide Facebook Videos from your timeline
• Focus Mode to instantly block distracting content
• Dark Mode / Light Mode theme switcher
• Simple toggle controls to customize your browsing experience
• Lightweight and fast

Why use this extension?

Short-form content like Shorts and Reels can easily lead to endless scrolling and distractions. This extension helps you take control of your browsing experience and focus on what matters.

Perfect for:

• Students
• Developers
• Remote workers
• Productivity enthusiasts
• Anyone who wants to reduce social media distractions

Privacy Friendly

This extension does not track your browsing activity and does not collect personal data.

Take back control of your browsing experience and stay focused.

Changelog

v1.7
• Polished tab styling, toggle rows, CTA section
• Complete popup UI redesign with a modern card-based layout

v1.6
• Added Dark Mode / Light Mode toggle
• UI improvements and visual enhancements

v1.5
• Added tab system for organizing YouTube and Facebook controls

v1.4
• Performance optimizations
• Enhanced privacy improvements
• Chrome Web Store compliance updates

v1.3
• Enhanced modal interface
• Improved toggle system
• Active count display and status indicators
• Modern UI improvements

v1.2
• Added option to hide Facebook Stories

v1.1
• Hide Facebook Reels “See more” button
• Redirect Reels page to homepage on Facebook

v1.0
• Initial release

Tags

Productivity/tools social-media video productivity/tools

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

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