Are you tired of being bombarded with YouTube shorts videos and craving a longer, more immersive viewing experience? Look no further! Introducing the "Hide Shorts Video" Chrome extension, designed to enhance your user experience on YouTube.
With a total rating of 4.57 out of 5 based on user reviews, this extension has garnered praise for its ability to block and hide shorts videos, allowing you to enjoy regular videos without interruption.
Enhancing User Experience
One of the main frustrations users have expressed is the lack of optimization and functionality of YouTube shorts on PCs. The "Hide Shorts Video" extension addresses this issue by seamlessly displaying short videos in the regular video player, significantly improving the viewing experience.
How it Works
By simply installing the extension, you can transform the URL of YouTube shorts videos from:
"youtube.com/shorts/<video-id>"
into:
"youtube.com/watch?v=<video-id>"
This simple modification allows you to seamlessly watch shorts videos on the regular video player, creating a more immersive and enjoyable experience.
Exciting New Features
The "Hide Shorts Video" extension is constantly evolving to meet user needs. The latest version, v1.4.1, introduces:
Other notable features include:
- Support for the new subscription page
- Mobile support for m.youtube.com
- Blocking shorts reels
- French and Italian translations
- An "Open in regular player" button in the Shorts player
- Blocking Shorts-related feeds
These additions further enhance your control over your YouTube experience, allowing you to enjoy content the way you prefer.
Report Bugs and Provide Feedback
The "Hide Shorts Video" extension is continuously being improved based on user feedback. If you encounter any bugs or have any feature requests, you can easily report them to the author through their Twitter handle, @itachi_yukari, or by leaving a review.
Experience YouTube without the interruptions of shorts videos. Take control of your viewing experience with the "Hide Shorts Video" Chrome extension today!
30 Reviews For This Extension
*Behavioral Note on Extension Design* This extension redirects Shorts video URLs (/shorts/xxx) to the standard watch page (/watch?v=xxx). However, when used in combination with YouTube's auto-loading recommendation system, it can unintentionally trigger Visited records (video visit logs) for videos the user did not actively watch. Specifically: - Videos not manually played by the user may appear as Visited in Google Activity - Abnormal ad display records may also appear in the activity logs While there is no indication of malicious intent in the extension itself, this appears to be a design oversight that can result in unintended traffic generation. Please be aware of this behavior when deciding whether to use this extension. I personally like the function itself, and I hope this issue will be improved in future updates.
goated, helps me from going on shorts and then regretting it later
I love this extension, it's such an improvement in my youtube experience.
EDIT: OK, I've found out you need to click on the extension's icon when it's active, in order to access the options. Changed review to 4 stars instead of previous 3 now that I've found that, I should have looked at the screenshots better. Still, it would still be best if you added an "Options" entry to the extension properties like other extensions have, it's more intuitive that way. " 'Hide shorts video' is now enabled by default!!!! If you don't want to do that, please disable in option page!" ... but Chrome doesn't show any link to an Options page... (using v1.5.3) Other than that, it's very good, but I still want to see Shorts.
Hides video and tab by default, not ideal. I just want the short to play as normal video, no other changes
Thank you to the author of this addon, it works. C'mon Google, why do you keep trying to make me watch vertical videos on my PC after I said I don't want to?
Does what is says on the tin. Looking forward to all of the hours this will save me lol
BEST EVER HIGHLY RECOMENDED
Works
helps you get off the dopamine rollercoaster
Singlehandedly saved my attention span
Good stuff
Such a good extension. Now, every time I visit YouTube, my brain will thank me. :)
set it and forget it, your mental health will thank you
Bro I searched and it was 99% shorts, shorts are a freaking plague.
It's great but a good feature would be to allow me to click onto the search results "shorts" tab. If I explicitly want to see shorts (for example for a recipe) I should be allowed to. I actually think this is a bug as it causes funny loading behaviour. Otherwise flawless, great job.
THANK YOU, wish i had this on my phone too
thank you for making this extenstion. 5 stars because I downloaded it 30 seconds ago and it got baity shorts out of my suggested videos. It also works lol.
simple
Ah mate, absolute champ, was losing me mind with uknowhat removed from chrome.
Amazing Amazing Amazing The biggest thing I like about this is the fact it doesn't remove YT Shorts- it keeps them, but removes their addictive structure. Nowadays, a lot of creators are moving to shorts to post valuable content there, and there is not always the problem with the content- the problem is with the structure of shorts. This extension keeps the short, so you can view them, but can't scroll- which is amazing. It is more difficult for you to get into a loop of swiping brainless reels
Youtube has lost its mind, it used to be a social that earned from your time but gave something back, now it tries to suck your soul Tik Tok style, thank god there are developers who fight against this commodification of time. What is the purpose of these companies, make more and more money endlessly?
I need a Instagram-reels Block :) Thanks for this shorts block
great
Thanks a lot
blocks shorts search results, something ublock couldn't. i hate them. absolute brain cancer, worse than tiktok
broken now
thinkx ?
didn't hide shorts tab
Occasionally works, usually doesn't.