Hide Shorts Reels Stories

Hide Shorts, Reels & Stories is a powerful productivity Chrome extension designed to help you remove distractions, stop endless scrolling, and stay focused while browsing YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.

Instantly hide YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, Stories, and videos, plus Instagram Reels, Stories, and Explore — to create a cleaner, distraction-free browsing experience built for productivity, studying, and deep work.

Whether you're a student, developer, remote worker, creator, or productivity enthusiast, this extension helps you take back control of your attention and reduce social media distractions with one click.

Key Features

• Hide YouTube Shorts from the homepage, feed, and navigation
• Remove Facebook Reels from your timeline and feed
• Hide Facebook Stories instantly
• Block distracting Facebook Videos
• Hide Instagram Reels from your feed and navigation
• Hide Instagram Stories and the stories tray
• Hide Instagram Explore links and the Explore grid
• Smooth Instagram feed — hidden Reels and Stories turn into compact placeholders, so your feed keeps loading instead of stalling or jumping back to old posts
• Focus Mode to reduce distractions and improve concentration
• Simple one-click toggle controls for every platform
• Dark / Light / Auto Mode support
• Lightweight, fast, and privacy-friendly (no data collection)
• Clean and modern user interface
• Improve productivity and reduce screen time

Why Use This Extension?

Short-form content is designed to keep users scrolling for hours.

YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, and Instagram Reels, Stories, and Explore can quickly interrupt focus, reduce productivity, and create endless distraction loops.

This extension helps you:

• Stay focused while studying or working
• Reduce mindless scrolling and dopamine-driven distractions
• Create a cleaner YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram experience
• Improve concentration and digital wellbeing
• Build healthier browsing habits

Focus more on what matters — and less on algorithm-driven distractions.

Perfect For

• Students
• Developers
• Remote workers
• Office professionals
• Productivity enthusiasts
• Deep work sessions
• Anyone trying to reduce social media distractions

Privacy Friendly

Your privacy matters.

This extension does NOT:
• Track browsing activity
• Collect personal data
• Store user information
• Sell or share data

Everything runs locally in your browser for a fast and secure experience.

Changelog

v2.0

• Added Instagram support: hide Reels, Stories, and Explore
• Smooth Instagram feed — hidden Reels and Stories become compact placeholders, so the feed keeps loading instead of stalling or jumping back to older posts
• Added an Instagram tab and app icon to the popup

v1.9.1

• Fixed Facebook filtering issues on newer Facebook routes and subdomains
• Improved Reels, Stories, and Watch blocking reliability for desktop Facebook pages
• Fixed Youtube Shorts visibility issue

v1.9

• Added an Auto option to the popup theme switcher so Light, Dark, and device-based theme selection work from the same control
• Updated Facebook Reels and video selectors for more reliable hiding on newer Facebook markup

v1.8

• Added an optimized lightweight build system for faster performance and cleaner extension packaging
• Improved dynamic content filtering and navigation handling for YouTube and Facebook pages
• Enhanced reliability when blocking Shorts, Reels, Stories, and distracting content during page refreshes
• Refined popup UI with dedicated Focus Mode, Shorts, Reels, and Facebook Stories icons
• Improved toggle-row alignment, icon sizing, and overall visual consistency
• Minor UI polish and performance optimizations for a smoother browsing experience

v1.7

• Complete popup UI redesign with a modern card-based layout
• Improved toggle rows, tabs, and CTA sections
• Enhanced usability and cleaner visual hierarchy
• Better responsive layout and smoother interaction experience

v1.6

• Added Dark Mode / Light Mode toggle
• Improved popup accessibility and visual consistency
• UI enhancements and smoother interactions

v1.5

• Added tab system for organizing YouTube and Facebook controls
• Improved navigation and settings management

v1.4

• Performance optimizations and faster execution
• Enhanced privacy and Chrome Web Store compliance updates
• Internal stability improvements

v1.3

• Improved modal interface and toggle system
• Added active status indicators and count display
• Refined modern UI components

v1.2

• Added option to hide Facebook Stories

v1.1

• Hide Facebook Reels “See more” button
• Redirect Facebook Reels page to homepage

v1.0

• Initial release