I wrote a blog about the harmful effects of short-form content on our brains.
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Cheers wholesome netizen. Appreciate you sharing about things like this…
Thank you. You’re welcome.
I have not found a way to block YouTube short on mobile, but on computer (Firefox) I installed the addon tampermonkey. This addon allows custom script, and smart people have written scripts (GitHub) to block any form of yt-shorts.
It works
https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts One of the UBO yt-shorts filters
I recommend FreeTube, I believe you can hide shorts there ans adjust recommendations etc. It’s not super-reliable because YouTube keeps changing its backend, but when it works it’s really neat
NewPipe application only shows videos, never shorts unless you go into the shorts section on someones channel.
I honestly love NewPipe and the way it pulls the latest videos from your subscriptions, it really ensures you don’t fall into algorithmic viewing because of the first thing which shows up when you open the app.
Also want to shout out PipePipe, which adds plenty more features as a fork from Newpipe, including:
- SponsorBlock
- Video tab configuration
- Channel tab configuration
- The ability to filter shorts, paid content and future items from your feed, search results and channel pages.
I am using the YouTube Tweak extension on Firefox, which has a lot of options, including hiding shorts.
On mobile I am using PipePipe and YouTube Morphe for that.
would have been nice to share the scripts link here.
I have not found a way to block YouTube short on mobile
ReVanced works great for me
