Focomend

By: Donald Lee

Date: February 6th 2021

YouTube can be addicting, especially recommendations. Focomend is a Chrome Extension designed to filter out your YouTube recommendations and hide comments to prevents distractions and help you stay on track when watching YouTube.

Note: Because this extension scans through all YouTube videos loaded by the browser, although this is uncommon, you may experience some lag on YouTube.

Installation and Set up

1. Download the code onto your computer

• If you downloaded the files as a ZIP folder, unpack it

2. Adding keywords: In the folder, open up the file called "youtube.js" in any IDE or text editor of your choice

• Go to line 1 where you will see a list called "keywords"
• The words in that list will be used when filtering out videos. Only videos with those words will be shown to you!
• Feel free to add or remove words in that list, remember to seperate words by commas
  • Some common keywords have been added for you in the list!

3. After you add or remove all the keywords you want, save the file
4. On Chrome, go to Settings -- > Extensions --> Load unpacked --> The folder with the code

How to use

1. In your extensions bar (Should be to the right of your search bar), click on the Focomend logo
2. Click on "Hide recommendations!" to filter out your YouTube reccomendations based on keywords
3. To turn off the extension, click on the Focomend logo again (Should be to the right of your search bar), and click on "Allow recommendations!"
4. To modify your filters, repeat step 2 in the Installation and Set up section, then head over to Chrome, go to Settings -- > Extensions --> Next to Focomend, click on the reload button

Terms of Service

This program has not been thoroughly tested on other devices.
By using this program, you will be held accountable for anything that this program has potentially caused.
These terms may be changed without notice.