How to Turn off Youtube Recommendations

If you have been distracted by the Youtube's recommended videos on the homepage or the side bar, here is how to turn them off!

Preliminaries: Chrome.
Operating system: Linux (not tested on Windows/Mac).

This method is based on site-specific JavaScript and stylesheets. That is, when you visit a website, you insert your custome JavaScript code or stylesheet for that website to change its appearance or behavior.

Steps:

• Install Witchcraft following these instructions.
  __Witchcraft is a Google Chrome extension for loading custom Javascript and CSS directly from a folder in your file system, injecting them into pages that match their files names.__
• Create a directory to store your custom JavaScript and stylesheet files. For example, I created ~/.chrome-inj, in which -
• Create the following stylesheet named youtube.com.css:

    
#items #dismissable {
        display:none;
    }
    
#related {
        display:none;
    }

Now, how do they look?

You can also use it for Facebook:

    
#pagelet_sidebar .fbChatSidebar {
        display: none;
        height: 10px;
        overflow: hidden;
    }
    
#rightCol {
        display: none;
    }
    
#bluebarRoot {

    }
    
#fbNotificationsJewel, #fbRequestsJewel, #u_0_d {
        display: none;
    }
    
#stream_pagelet {
        max-height: 700px;
        overflow-y: scroll;
    }