# YouTube Shorts Timeout

> Monitors YouTube Shorts pages and closes them after 5 minutes with a warning and a sound.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-shorts-timeout`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** TellEmToBringOutTheBONELESS
- **Category:** alerts-updates,tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-16
- **First published:** 2025-04-13
- **Size:** 1.86 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-timeout/)

## Description

Prevents you from doomscrolling.

## Rankings

- #95,341 — Overall
- #189 — youtube shorts

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `*://www.youtube.com/*`
- `notifications`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/youtube-shorts-timeout)