Youtube Shorts Block

👥 400K+ users

📦 v1.5.5

💾 34.88KiB

📅 2025-11-18

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Blocks YouTube Shorts from taking over your feed, allowing you to view them as regular videos instead of the short-form clips they're designed for. Lets you enjoy longer, more in-depth content without being interrupted by the constant stream of Shorts. Benefits users who prefer traditional video formats and want to avoid the algorithm-driven feed that prioritizes Shorts.

Overview

A extension allows youtube shorts videos to play on a regular page.

Features
- Redirect shorts
- Hide "shorts" tab
- Hide shorts
- Extended GUI for shorts player

*** "Hide shorts video" is now enabled by default!!!!
If you don't want to do that, please disable in option page! ***

The UI of Youtube-shorts is not very well optimized for PCs and has poor functionality.
This extension aims to improve the user experience by displaying short videos in the regular video player.

...utube.com/shorts/"video-id"
↓↓
...utube.com/watch?v="video-id"
Change the URL to something like.

v1.5.5 features
- Fix: Extension Breaks YouTube's New Replies UI #64

v1.5.3 features
# Changed
- Fix falsely matching video-id if channel-id ends in "shorts" by @Thorben-D

v1.5.2 features
# Changed
- Fix block the entire News(and other) page

v1.5.1 features
# Changed
- Fix where opening in a new tab redirected to the wrong video

v1.5.0 features
# Changed
- refactoring codebase
- Fixed an issue where the hide shorts feature might not work depending on the environment (specifications).
- Fixed the "open in new tab" feature on the shorts screen.
- Updated to comply with YouTube's latest specifications (blocking ytd-rich-shelf-renderer).

v1.4.2 features
# Added
- Russian translation from @jooblex
# Changed
- Support for Youtube specification changes

v1.4.1 features
# Added
- German translation from @golgorath
# Changed
- Support new subscription page(Hide shorts video)

v1.4.0 features
# Added
- Support mobile (m.youtube.com)
- Enable "Hide shorts video" by default

v1.3.4 features
# Added
- Block shorts reels (if Hide shorts video is enabled)

v1.3.3 features
# Added
- French translation from @Rathmox

v1.3.2 features
# Added
- Italian translation from @gioxx

v1.3.1 features
# Changed
- Fixed a bug that redirected links that were not short videos containing the string "shorts"

v1.3.0 features
# Added
- Added "Open in regular player" button in the Shorts player
- Block Shorts-related feeds (if Hide shorts video is enabled)
- Add a Release notes

# Changed
- Fixed the problem that the load spinner does not disappear when "Hide Shorts video" is selected
- Optimize "hide shorts video"

v1.5.4 features
- Additional selector for Shorts shelf elements by @HardyHeron2008 in #62
- Fix timing issue for richShelfFilter by @seporterfield in #63