I have been frustrated with YouTube for a while. Not the content, but the everything around it. The homepage full of bait, the auto-play into things I didn't ask for, the Shorts that hijack your scroll, the recommendations that somehow know exactly what will keep you there longest.
So I built NoSuggest.
What it is
A YouTube feed reader that shows you only the channels you follow, nothing else. No algorithm, no recommendations, no Shorts, no homepage, no auto-play, no endless side cards of videos. You add a channel, it fetches their latest videos, done.
It lives at nosuggest.com and installs as a PWA on any device — iPhone, Android, desktop — straight from the browser. No app store.
The interesting technical constraint: one HTML file
The entire app is a single index.html. No account setup, no sign-in, no data collection. Everything that needs to persist, your channel list, saved videos, settings lives in localStorage.
No search history. No watch history. No "you might also like." No trending section. No notification badges designed to create anxiety. No dark patterns anywhere.
Every time I was tempted to add something convenient, I asked: does this serve the user's intention, or does it serve engagement? If it was the latter, it didn't make the cut.
Try it
nosuggest.com — Source Available here, free forever.
Curious what others think about this as useful.
Thank you.
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