YouTube without Shorts.
Google without the news block.
Smart Block is a Chrome extension that removes the feeds and leaves the rest working. You still search, watch and read. You just stop scrolling.
Chrome Web Store: in reviewFree. No account. The install link will appear here once the store approves the first version.
What goes, what stays
Removed
- YouTube Shorts, everywhere
- The YouTube home feed
- Related videos and end screens
- Comments, if you want
- “Top stories” in Google Search
- The Google News tab
Still works
- YouTube search
- Subscriptions
- Playlists and history
- The video you came for
- Normal Google results
- Images, Maps, everything else
How it works
- Every rule has its own switch, so you turn off only what pulls you in.
- Changes apply at once, without reloading the page.
- YouTube’s own “hide Shorts” button brings them back after 30 days. Here they stay gone while the extension is on.
- Need the feed for a moment? Pause for 15, 30 or 60 minutes. It switches back on by itself.
Nothing leaves your browser
No analytics, no tracking, no network requests, no account. The extension runs only on youtube.com and Google Search. The privacy policy is one short page.