Distraction Free YouTube (often abbreviated DF Tube) is a free browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge that hides YouTube's distraction-driving surfaces — the recommended-videos sidebar, the homepage feed, comments, end-screen suggestions, and autoplay — while leaving the actual video player and intentional search behavior intact.
The extension is configurable per-element, letting users selectively re-enable specific surfaces (for example, keeping comments visible but hiding the recommendations sidebar), and is part of a broader category of small attention-protecting browser tools that emerged in the late-2010s alongside applications like News Feed Eradicator, Newsfeed Burner, and the Hide YouTube Recommended set of clones. The project is built and maintained by an independent developer and remains free; its specific value for knowledge workers, researchers, and educators is treating YouTube as a search-and-watch utility rather than a personalized recommendation feed.