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[ygouzerh]

That's so true. I love Youtube for its music, documentaries and software engineering content.

But I hate the Shorts features, if I click on only one video, it sucks all my night.

I built a small app for blocking the Shorts features, in this way I can enjoy the advantages without having the bad sides.

[archixe → ygouzerh]

There is an add-on called unhook that allows you to disable almost everything on youtube. I turned off shorts, recommendations, the home page even the comments. Now all I see is my subsriptions page. It really stopped me from wasting hours hopping videos.

It also workes on firefox mobile, I stopped using the default youtube app.

[dabluecaboose → archixe]

Unfortunately, it doesn't disable shorts from the subscriptions tab. Which is really annoying now that all my preferred creators are making shorts, and it tries to suck me into doomscrolling.

[gte525u → archixe]

I started using Chrome plugin RYS that does something similar - where youtube functions but recommendations are removed. It's helped consumption dramatically. I'm kinda wondering if I need to do the same for reddit and hacker news where links/articles would work but the mainpage / subreddit pages wouldn't.

[ape4 → ygouzerh]

I've heard if you select "Not interested" for all the shorts in your feed one time - that will stop them.

[woudsma → ape4]

Only for 30 days for me. I want to disable shorts from my recommendations altogether.

[nicbou → ygouzerh]

Try Unhook. You can hide all but the video player if you want.

On mobile just use the website.