Hide Youtube-Shorts

Hides shorts from YouTube™ from home page, subscriptions and search results.

Hide Youtube-Shorts

Extension stats

By: vulpelo
Users: 155
Rating: 2.67
(3)
Version: 1.5.4 (Last updated: 2023-08-05)
Creation date: 2023-05-27
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 42.50K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

Hides shorts on YouTube™ from homepage, subscriptions, search results. It can also hide "Shorts" tab.

Additional options:

  • hide videos only on specific pages (home/subscription/channel/search page)
  • setting a timeout to not allow checking for shorts more often than a specified time (to reduce calling hiding shorts function to reduce page load)
  • A button to close a shelf with shorts located on subscription page

YouTube™ and YouTube Shorts™ are trademark of Google Inc.

User reviews

I can only give it 2 stars right now. It does work, but it lags the browser a lot, even on a decent spec laptop it causes the subscription page to take 5+ seconds longer to load and CPU/RAM usage is rather high. If you can fix this I can rate it higher
by Sahm Ghi, 2023-06-11

Doesn't work. Short tab is hidden but that is all
by Mr Inkogneeto, 2023-06-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hide Youtube-Shorts requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hide Youtube-Shorts is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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