YouTube on the desktop has become a firehose of shorts, recommendations, comments, ads, and sponsor segments. Four Firefox add-ons aim to tame different slices of it, and they overlap more than the store pages suggest. Live AMO stats as of August 11, 2026:
- Unhook – Remove YouTube Recommended Videos: 156,751 users, 4.64★, v1.6.9
- SponsorBlock: 734,705 users, 4.81★, v6.1.7
- UnTrap for YouTube: 21,743 users, 4.31★, v11.0
- YouTube Search Fixer: 33,147 users, 4.36★, v10.1.3
The distraction-killers: Unhook vs UnTrap
These two fight the same battle — hiding the stuff that keeps you scrolling instead of watching.
Unhook (unhook.app) is the mature, focused option: 156k users and a 4.64 star rating. It hides related videos, the suggestion wall, homepage recommendations, the trending tab, and comments. That’s its entire job, done well and with per-item toggles. It’s the add-on most people mean when they say “make YouTube not recommend me things.”
UnTrap (untrap.app) covers the same hiding ground — shorts, ads, comments, related, suggestions — but adds AI video summarization on top. That’s the differentiator and the risk: it’s the newest and smallest of the lot (21k users, 4.31★), and summarization means it’s phoning home to an AI backend rather than just shuffling the DOM.
The take: for pure distraction removal, Unhook is the safe pick — more users, more mature, single-purpose. Don’t run Unhook and UnTrap for hiding; they duplicate each other. UnTrap is worth considering only if you specifically want AI summaries and accept a smaller, newer extension.
SponsorBlock: the different category
SponsorBlock (sponsor.ajay.app) isn’t fighting distraction, it’s fighting sponsored content: it auto-skips sponsor segments using a crowd-sourced database, and lets you vote segments in or out. At 734k users and 4.81★ it’s both the biggest and the best-rated thing here. It’s fully complementary to Unhook — you can run both without conflict.
YouTube Search Fixer: the niche tool
Search Fixer is a different niche again: it cleans distracting search results, redirects Shorts back to the legacy watch page, and applies tweaks suited to low-resolution screens (33k users, 4.45★). If Shorts redirects are your #1 annoyance, this is the one; otherwise it’s optional polish.
What to actually run
- Default recommendation: Unhook + SponsorBlock — clean, non-overlapping, both mature.
- Wants AI summaries too: swap in UnTrap for the hiding half (drop Unhook) and keep SponsorBlock.
- Shorts are the real problem: add YouTube Search Fixer on top of either combo.
The bottom line is this is a two-category problem — decluttering and sponsor-skipping. Pick one declutterer, add the sponsor-skipper, and only reach for the niche tools if a specific annoyance (Shorts) actually bugs you.
Stats fetched live from the Mozilla Add-ons API at publication time.