# Old School YouTube™

> Brings back YouTube™ user experience from old days by removing shorts and prompts from YouTube™ pages. Shorts are still available on their dedicated page.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/old-school-youtube](https://chrome-stats.com/d/old-school-youtube)

## Overview

- **ID:** `old-school-youtube`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** OstrowskiDev
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 79
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-07
- **First published:** 2024-10-04
- **Size:** 29 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/old-school-youtube/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/OstrowskiDev/old-school-youtube](https://github.com/OstrowskiDev/old-school-youtube)

## Description

This extension aims to bring back the experience of YouTube™ from days when it was focused mainly on video content. So: no shorts, no prompts. You will still be able to watch shorts in their respective page, but they will no longer get displayed on other pages. All prompts not directly related to videos will be removed.

## Rankings

- #12,962 — Overall
- #7 — school
- #198 — hold

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/old-school-youtube)