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How to Make YouTube Look Like It Used to in 2010
person Patrick Bushe · calendar_today April 10, 2026
In 2010, YouTube was primarily just a video player, a star rating, and a few related links. To make YouTube look like it used to, you must brutally strip away the modern "social network" integrations. The YouTube Enhancer extension serves as a digital time machine. By systematically hiding the Shorts tab, the community posts, the shopping grids, and the live-chat overlays, it visually regresses the website back to its nostalgic, purely functional roots.