No YouTube Recommendations Chrome Extension

Overview

No YouTube Recommendations is a simple Chrome extension designed to improve your productivity by hiding YouTube's sidebar recommendations. With a single click on the extension icon, you can toggle the visibility of the recommendations on and off, helping you to stay focused on your intended content.

Features

• Toggle Recommendations Visibility: Click the extension icon to hide or show YouTube recommendations.
• Dynamic Content Handling: The extension uses a MutationObserver to handle dynamic content changes on YouTube, ensuring recommendations remain hidden when you navigate between videos.
• Minimalist Design: The icon indicates the state of the extension (on or off) using a visual cue, making it easy to see whether recommendations are currently visible or blocked.
• Badge Indicator: A badge with "OFF" text appears when YouTube recommendations are blocked.

Installation

1. Clone or Download this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/mklilley/no-youtube-recommendations.git

2. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions/.
3. Enable Developer mode by clicking the toggle in the top-right corner.
4. Click on Load unpacked and select the folder containing this repository.
5. The extension will now be added to Chrome.

How to Use

• Click the extension icon in the Chrome toolbar to toggle recommendations on YouTube.
• When the extension is active (no badge), recommendations are visible.
• When the badge shows OFF, recommendations are hidden.

How It Works

1. The extension uses a content.js script to hide or show YouTube's recommendations based on a stored state.
2. A background.js script manages the state and updates the extension's icon and badge text.
3. The content.js script includes a MutationObserver that keeps recommendations hidden even when navigating dynamically on YouTube.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.