How to Prevent YouTube from Pushing Addictive Content
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
YouTube's Home feed and autoplay are its strongest pulls. In Ultimate Adblocker's YouTube settings, "Hide Home page videos" empties the Home page (or "Open Subscriptions instead of Home" shows only channels you follow), "Hide Shorts" removes the swipe-through clips, and "Turn off autoplay" makes each video stop when it ends. "Hide recommended videos" removes the column next to the player. You then find videos by searching, which makes each one a choice.
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