🔅 GreatFilter for YouTube 🔅

Filter out low view count videos from the YouTube homepage

🔥 Description

🔅 A script that enhances your YouTube browsing experience by filtering out (dimming or removing) videos with low view counts - no more being happily spoonfed inclusive mediocrity masquerading as relevance 👍

Features:

• Automatically filters videos based on a customizable view count threshold (default 5000)
• Provides multiple options for handling filtered videos (dimming, hiding, or removing)
• Respects user choices by not affecting subscriptions feed or channel pages

^{Note: Congratulations YouTube on being the single website I need 5 addons and a script to be half usable even with premium ⭐️💯}

📦 Installation

Prerequisites

Install a user script manager extension like:

• Tampermonkey for Chrome or Firefox

Installation Steps

1. Click on the extension icon in your browser toolbar and select "Create a new script"

2. Replace any existing code with the GreatFilter script below:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         GreatFilter
// @description  Remove Low view count videos from the YouTube homepage
// @version      1.0.3
// @author       Tremeschin
// @match        *://*.youtube.com/*
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=youtube.com
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Act on videos that have less than this amount of views
    const VIEW_THRESHOLD = 5000;

    function isBadVideo(views) {
        console.log("Checking is bad video", views.innerText);

        // Match for 'N.Nuu views' (1.3K, 2.0M, 1Mrd) until the next space ('views' word)
        let match = views.innerText.trim().match(/^(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*([^\s]+)?/);
        if (!match) return false;

        // Unpack and find true values
        let [, number, unit] = match;
        number = parseFloat(number);

        // Find the true total number of views
        switch (unit.toLowerCase()) {
            case 'k':
                number *= 1000;
                break;
            case 'm':
            case 'mm':
                number *= 1000000;
                break;
            case 'b':
            case 'g':
            case 'mrd':
            case 'md':
                number *= 1000000000;
                break;
        }

        return (number < VIEW_THRESHOLD);
    }

    function filterVideos() {

        // Skip if intentionally seeing subscriptions or a channel page
        if (location.pathname.startsWith("/feed/subscriptions")) {
            return;
        }
        if (location.pathname.startsWith("/@")) {
            return;
        }

        // Act on the homepage or shorts
        if (location.pathname.startsWith("/shorts")) {
            document.querySelectorAll('.reel-video-in-sequence.style-scope.ytd-shorts').forEach(video => {
                if (video.isActive) {
                    const views = video.querySelector('.yt-spec-button-shape-with-label__label');
                    if (views && isBadVideo(views)) {
                        const nextButton = document.querySelector('.navigation-button.style-scope.ytd-shorts .yt-spec-touch-feedback-shape__fill');
                        if (nextButton) nextButton.click();
                    }
                }
            });
        } else {
            document.querySelectorAll('ytd-rich-item-renderer, ytd-item-section-renderer').forEach(video => {
                const meta  = video.querySelectorAll('.yt-content-metadata-view-model__metadata-row');
                const views = meta[1]?.querySelector('span');
                if (!views) return;

                // Note: Select some options below:
                if (isBadVideo(views)) {

                    // Send the video to the shadow realm
                    video.remove();

                    // More gracefully to the shadow realm
                    // video.style.display = 'none';

                    // Fair compromise, still visible but dimmed
                    // video.style.opacity = '0.10';

                    // Remove clickable links
                    // video.querySelectorAll('a').forEach(a => a.removeAttribute('href'));
                }
            });
        }
    }

    // Run the filter function whenever the page changes
    const observer = new MutationObserver(filterVideos);
    observer.observe(document.body, {childList: true, subtree: true});
})();

3. Optionally modify the VIEW_THRESHOLD and comment/uncomment the desired filtering behavior at the end of the filterVideos function (dim, remove, or hide videos)

4. Save the script and reload any YouTube pages