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Both work flawlessly, and reduced my YouTube usage to almost zero.", "context": "", "use_case": "YouTube recommendation blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"}, {"id": 772817136, "item_id": 48301071, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301071", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-05-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i used https://untrap.app/, it was a great improvement.", "excerpt": "When I used to use YT, i used https://untrap.app/, it was a great improvement. If you think you can't quit youtube, I used to think that way, and then i did it by deleting my account and using libredirect for invidious. my usage went to just a few minutes or 0 per day.", "context": "quit YouTube", "use_case": "curbing YouTube recommendations", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"}, {"id": 764597395, "item_id": 47787337, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787337", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-04-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "UnTrap[4] - Remove shorts and make UI amazing.", "excerpt": "Before I quit YouTube, this was my setup. Brave Shields[1] - Adblock SponsorBlock[2] - Crowd-sourced skip sponsored segments DeArrow[3] - Make thumbnails not clickbait UnTrap[4] - Remove shorts and make UI amazing. Return Youtube Dislike[5] I deleted my Google account and now occasionally use Invidious with LibRedirect[6] to watch YT videos. Importing subscriptions into Invidious was a helpful stepping stone. 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Both work flawlessly", "excerpt": "I use Unhooked on desktop and UnTrap on iOS for this. Both work flawlessly, and reduced my YouTube usage to almost zero.", "context": "", "use_case": "YouTube recommendation blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"}, {"id": 772817136, "item_id": 48301071, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301071", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-05-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i used https://untrap.app/, it was a great improvement.", "excerpt": "When I used to use YT, i used https://untrap.app/, it was a great improvement. 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It lets you configure away the things that distract you. https://untrap.app/ It used to be one time purchase, looks like they turned it into a subscription.", "context": "", "use_case": "blocking distracting site features", "switched_from": "", "story": "Channel Surfer \u2013 Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV"}, {"id": 752393425, "item_id": 47024589, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024589", "by": "maxxmod", "date": "2026-02-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "UnTrap's Chrome version seems maintained", "excerpt": "You\u2019re right, Unhook does look abandoned. Sorry, I initially mixed it up Unhook with UnTrap [1] because of the similar name. UnTrap's Chrome version seems maintained (February 2026 [2]), while the Firefox version seems abandoned too (December 2024 [3]). One of my goals with Maxxmod is to avoid that abandonment pattern. 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