The homepage feed is the single biggest time-sink on YouTube. This extension redirects youtube.com to any page you choose — your tasks, your calendar, a blank tab — the instant it loads. Search and videos work exactly as before.
It blocks the YouTube homepage feed at document_start — before the feed ever renders. No flash of recommendations, no endless scrolling, no temptation.
Send the homepage to any URL — Todoist, Google Calendar, Notion, a blank page. You decide where focus begins.
Only the homepage itself redirects — search, watch pages, subscriptions and history stay completely untouched.
Want the feed for a minute? Flip the toggle in the toolbar popup. A counter shows how often it sent you back to focus.
No analytics, no accounts, no servers. Your settings live in Chrome sync storage and never leave your browser.
Plain JavaScript, no frameworks, no background polling. It redirects before the page paints, so there's no flicker.
Set your redirect URL once. It follows you to every Chrome browser you're signed into.
Click the icon, type the URL you'd rather see. Defaults to your Todoist Today view.
Hit youtube.com and you land on your page instead of the feed. That's the whole thing.
Install the extension and it blocks the YouTube homepage feed automatically: the moment you open youtube.com, it redirects you to a page you choose, before the feed ever renders. There's nothing to configure — and search and videos keep working.
Yes. By removing the home feed entirely — the source of infinite scroll, Shorts and personalised recommendations — there's nothing left to doom-scroll. You only see YouTube when you deliberately search or open a video.
Yes. Point it at any URL — your task list, calendar, dashboard or a blank tab. The default redirect is your Todoist Today view, and you can change it in one click from the toolbar popup.
Feed blockers hide elements on the homepage after it loads. This one redirects the homepage away entirely, so the feed never loads at all — yet leaves the rest of YouTube (search, videos, subscriptions) completely untouched.
No. It only redirects the homepage feed at youtube.com. Search, individual video pages, subscriptions, history and channels all keep working exactly as normal.
No. It's a few kilobytes of plain JavaScript with no background process. The redirect runs before the page renders, so you never even see the feed load.
Yes. It's a Manifest V3 extension built for Chrome, and it runs on any Chromium browser — including Microsoft Edge, Brave, Arc and Opera.
Never. There's no tracking, no analytics and no accounts. Your redirect URL is stored only in Chrome's sync storage and never leaves your browser. The full source is on GitHub.
Open the popup and flip the on/off switch. Redirecting pauses until you turn it back on — no uninstalling required.