The platform par excellence for watching all kinds of content, completely free of charge, is YouTube. It has hundreds of millions of videos with all kinds of entertaining and useful content. The problem is with the random recommendations, which can be off topic, but the Chrome extension, YouTube Ultra Focus Mode, solves this problem.
YouTube has a column with a set of recommendations next to each video. These recommendations are based on other content we have seen and also on videos that the platform is interested in promoting.
They are often a very strange mix of different types of videos and of course, that can be distracting. If you don’t want it to show you just anything, you can opt for this extension for Chrome browsers. What it does, explained in simple terms, is to only show videos based on the keywords that we give it.
Get a better YouTube experience with this extension
There are many different extensions that focus on improving the user experience on YouTube. The platform does not offer certain features that users demand, although they can be “added” via extension.
YouTube Ultra Focus Mode is an extension for the Google Chrome browser that can also be used in the Microsoft Edge browser. As you may know, this browser is based on Chromium, hence the support for Chrome extensions.
This extension personalizes video recommendations based on the keywords we have established. It helps to avoid the distraction that the recommended videos column usually generates. This way, it will only show us videos based on our interests.
Using this extension is very simple, as it is designed to be simple to use. The first thing is to install it, which is not a mystery, as it is available in the Chrome Web Store, which is the “store” for extensions. If you are interested, you can install it by accessing this link.
After installation, the next step is to define the keywords that we want to use as a filter on YouTube. To do this, simply click on the extension icon in the browser toolbar. Then, enter all the words that interest us and that we want to use as a filter.
As usual, we can add or remove terms at any time. This allows us to receive a more tailored experience as our interests change. It offers us great flexibility and control, as well as being very easy to manage.
It helps to fix a “bug” on YouTube, which tends to recommend videos that have little to do with the topic you’re watching. You’ll usually see recommendations based on other videos you’ve watched in the right-hand column. If you play a lot of music, it will show you several videos based on your most recent plays and tastes.
If we are interested in gardening content, we can tell the extension to show us only content of that style. If we want only humorous videos, we can establish this criterion and other similar ones. We can even establish filters so that it shows us only science videos, if we are interested in this content.
