Tubwise

Organise your YouTube subscriptions. Hide Shorts. Skip the noise.

Tag every channel into a colour-coded grid, filter the subscriptions feed by tag, hide Shorts and recommendations everywhere — and keep all your data on your own device.

Add to Chrome Source on GitHub

Manifest V3 · React 19 · MIT licensed

What it does

Subscription dashboard

Auto-tags every channel into Music, Tech, Gaming, Learning and 17 other topics. Group by tag, name, or recently seen.

Tag pill row

A filter bar injected above /feed/subscriptions lets you show only one tag's channels at a time.

Focus mode

One master toggle hides Shorts (in feeds, shelves, sidebar), recommendations, comments, and the Trending sidebar.

Channel blocklist

"Block" button on every card. Blocked channels disappear everywhere on YouTube, not just inside Tubeshelf.

Local-first

chrome.storage.local only. No accounts, no servers, no telemetry. Export / import a JSON snapshot any time.

Latest-upload chip

Each card shows when the channel last uploaded, fetched from the public RSS feed during the scrape.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 25 April 2026

Tubeshelf ("the Extension") is a browser extension that helps you organise your YouTube subscriptions and hide distracting interface elements such as Shorts, recommendations and comments. This document explains exactly what data the Extension touches and where it lives.

TL;DR

The Extension stores data only on your local device, inside your browser, via the chrome.storage.local API.
The Extension does not transmit, sell, share or otherwise send any of your data to any server controlled by the developer or by third parties.
The Extension does not include analytics, telemetry, ads, fingerprinting or any third-party tracking SDK.

What data is processed

When you click Refresh subscriptions, Tubeshelf calls YouTube's own public InnerTube API (the same endpoints youtube.com uses) to read your own subscriptions list. For each channel it stores:

channel id and handle
channel name and avatar URL
the timestamp when it was last seen in your subscriptions
any tag you assign to the channel
any auto-detected topic suggestions
the date of the channel's most recent upload (read from its public RSS feed)

You may also create your own tags and a per-channel blocklist; both are stored alongside the channel data.

All of this is written to chrome.storage.local, which the browser keeps on your device. None of it is uploaded anywhere by the Extension.

What data is not processed

The Extension does not read your browsing history, cookies, passwords, payment information, location or any other personal data.
The Extension does not modify your YouTube account, post comments, subscribe / unsubscribe to channels, or interact with the site on your behalf in any way.
The Extension does not make network requests to any server other than YouTube's own — specifically https://www.youtube.com/feed/channels, https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse, and https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml — to read your subscription list and each channel's latest upload date. Channel avatar thumbnails are loaded by the browser as ordinary <img> tags from whatever CDN URL YouTube returned (typically *.ggpht.com or *.googleusercontent.com); the Extension itself does not initiate those requests as fetches.

How to delete your data

Open the dashboard, scroll to Backup, and click Export if you want a JSON copy of your data first.
To wipe everything: open chrome://extensions, click Remove on Tubeshelf. Chrome deletes all stored data along with the Extension.

Permissions

Permission	Why we need it
`storage`	Persist your tags, channel-tag assignments, blocklist and settings between browser sessions. Stored locally only.
`host_permissions: youtube.com`	Inject the content script that hides Shorts, recommendations and comments, applies your channel blocklist, and (in the service worker) reads your subscription list via YouTube's own InnerTube API using your existing session cookies.

Children

Tubeshelf is not directed at children under 13. It does not knowingly collect personal information.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be published at the same URL with an updated "Last updated" date. Material changes will also be noted in the Chrome Web Store release notes.

Contact

Open a GitHub issue at the project repository, or email raduradionat@gmail.com.

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