I open YouTube to watch one lecture and surface 40 minutes later in a Shorts spiral. Sound familiar? Blockers that hide sections never fixed it for me: my brain finds whatever is left. So I built Errand for YouTube to step in at the two moments that decide everything. The home page asks what you're here for, and when your video ends, it offers to close the tab.Shorts, the feed, the end screen and the recommendation sidebar are hidden. Recommendations open after a 10-second wait, which is usually long enough to remember why you came.Why this one and not the others: UnTrap keeps AI summaries and sync behind a paid Plus tier and charges for its iOS app. Errand has no paid tier at all. Unhook is free but closed source. Errand is GPL-3.0, makes zero network requests, needs no account, and its permissions are youtube.com and storage, nothing else.It also self-checks: if a YouTube update breaks a filter, the toolbar icon shows exactly what broke instead of failing silently.Direct install (Chrome Web Store): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jhpaobkpbnidoaemnkojmkmnddoegdhgSource code: https://github.com/SomeStay07/errand-for-youtubeIt's about a week old and I use it daily. Happy to answer anything, and genuinely curious what people would want hidden next.   submitted by   /u/Barboss_161 [link]   [comments]