How To Remove YouTube Shorts 

why would you wanna block shorts?

The fact that people want to disable shorts and there are developers that create these amazing tools really goes to show how crap shorts really are

Thank you for the tip. It is a lifesaver. youtube shorts are cancer.

Alternate title: "How to cure RU-vid's cancer"

My child can't stop himself once he starts watching them (I have to step in). He even tells me he wants to stop watching shorts but "can't", which is terrifying. Knowing this will make a huge difference in our lives. Thank you!

What’s wrong is RU-vid themselves keep pushing shorts on people, it’s a form of spam, and should be something you can opt out of. Unfortunately opting out doesn’t work within the RU-vid platform. I hate shorts and hate the way RU-vid is going.

I agree with "I'm getting dumber each time I watch shorts"... ... I'm not into short video (I hate tiktok and any similar platform idea)... ... once RU-vid implemented them I found myself one day spiraling in a couple of hours of random shorts, before noticing the time passed: it's a form of contect that release spray of interest, but actually "turn off" the active brain. As a former addicted to a lot of things, I immediately understood why are so catchy, but also so dangerous, and disabled them forever. A longer video has to prove some value to catch me in its entirety, or I simply skip... in 30sec the brain cannot process if it is really good or bad... it is the same format once used for advertising: 30 second to grab attention but not question the actual content.

I used to be totally against the short form video's, but in the past year or so I kept watching more and more. I can no longer browse youtube without being tempted to click on a short and then just feeling empty afterwards. I am hoping to take a step back and to distance myself a bit from short form video's. And I think that this is a great way to do it. Thank you!

can you pls make a version for smartphones??

Brilliant. So frustrating this isn’t a feature on RU-vid yet as they really put shorts on every search on desktop where the content just makes no sense.

Dude I literally cannot thank you enough for this. I'm currently trying to really focus on my studies but reels/shorts have been my DOWNFALL literally. I just get so addicted to it and I feel like I physically can't stop. Once I realise how much time I wasted doing NOTHING, I feel empty and dumb inside lmao. SO glad this is a thing, and it works great. You're a lifesaver, thank you so much.

is it only for laptop/pc? how do i remove shorts on my phone?

The shorts always distract me from searching other videos, and I have been finding ways to remove them. Thank you so much for the tip!

I deleted TikTok because I notice my attention span was very short, also it’s just a waste of time watching short videos. And then RU-vid added the short video feature which lead me back to my old habits. Thank you for making this video

the thing is, if it's on pc it's not really a problem for me personally, but RU-vid mobile.. it's just much much more addicting swiping through shorts there. i rarely watch shorts on pc

Is it possible to remove it on a phone

It was always taking so much of my time unintentionally. That's a lifesaver !

What is terrifying is that this video was the first recommendation by the algorithm! And the fact that I've never searched for this topic but only had it in mind is even more terrifying!

Some people do come on RU-vid for watching educational videos only, to study by watching live classes and all.. since these shorts started. Distraction level is very high here. It's a relief for me to hide shorts.

Shorts are amazing though, at least for me... People don't have attention span for anything longer, so I am recently trying to create only expressive content (and after I post it, I use a lot of famester to make my Shorts go viral immediately). This brings up a lot more organic views day after day.

yt shorts just make me lose brain cells and give me an anxiety boost every time i watch them it’s just like the reccomended i get gives me very catastrophic videos and makes me nervous and anxious, and i want to live a calm and peaceful life without thinking about that the worst is going to happen. so ya thanks very much

Dude, this video was recommended on my home page, and it feels like a total blessing! RU-vid shorts always made me waste hours upon hours when I could have actually watched a much more fulfilling, "Normal length" video. Thank you very much Chris, you got yourself another subscriber!

A few months ago I started deleting all of my social media. Now, the only one that I use is RU-vid. I honestly think it's pretty good, I only watch videos of my interest. Until "shorts"started to show up. Now this is huuuuuge help to get back on track. Thank you!

Thanks for the tutorial. Is there anyway to apply this on mobile as well?

Any way to do this on mobile?

I feel like youtube shorts was only created to oppose tiktok or something like this. I also find very little to no value in watching shorts.

"You might notice, i have no shorts" caught me off guard 😂

I have the UBlock extension on Chrome, and absolutely love it! When I'm on the RU-vid site, the ONLY things that I see are my Subscriptions page, and the videos themselves. No shorts, no recommendations. I also have the extension for enabling viewing of dislikes. It's that good. Just straight and to the point.

Ever since I removed youtube shorts I have not seen a single fortnite video and I am so happy right now I feel like thanos at the end of infinity war

I think RU-vid should have a tab for shorts and tab for normal videos to keep things separate. Some people want shorts and some don’t. There should be an option to remove them with needing to do this but there isn’t. I’m thankful for this developer

this is the single greatest video i have ever come across. genuinely life hanging. I have severe adhd and I cannot control myself to not click on shorts. It consumed my life so much I got a flip phone. Now my computer is cleaned thank you so much.

Just the fact that they won’t let you turn them off says so much..

Sadly now seems youtube trying to work around that as on my homepage I get some shorts mixed with the normal videos (on pc browser) As the shorts are no longer in their own section Any updates on that ?

Ever since I quit these "shorts", it has been a breath of fresh air

I need a way to do that on the phone. Great video!

Please provide a way to block them in the app as well

thank you so much, this is straight up unethical that they just forced this with no option to remove it, sometimes the shorts I get recommended are just so ignorant or bigoted. I stay off TikTok for a reason, thank you for this

Do you know the huge positive impact you are doing with this video? This is blessing. These companies push anything into our throat to make money. I would love to see a video showing how to block shorts in the smartphone app

I've literally gone to RU-vid support for the option to remove shorts, and I have a feeling they didn't care. Thank you for this

I searched on RU-vid today and I had to scroll past MULTIPLE bars of shorts that were IRRELEVANT to my search. Thank you for helping me eliminate that problem so efficiently.

Chris is not the hero we deserve, but the hero we needed. I hate shorts. Thank you.

The hand movements matching up at 0:11 was satisfying

One thing I have to say: There are some old videos that have been converted to shorts (mostly old memes) automatically by youtube. If you search for them they wont show up. Some times you have to disable the block to finde the videos. I also have a feeling that since shorts have been added its harder to finde stuff through the search on youtube.

excellent brother, youve saved countless hours being wasted by everyone who has seen this

shorts have been causing me genuine mental problems (kinda never diagnosed but just havent felt the same or have been feeling this horrible extruciating pain dealt to my mind that im scared of that i wont go into detail) so this should help

This is great! One of the reasons I discontinued RU-vid Premium was the inability to turn off Shorts. I don't want to pay for a product that offers insultingly little control over it and attempts to manipulate me. I also would love the ability to sort my subscription feed. For instance, I'd like to have separate feeds for politics, engineering, music, or tech. There are times when I go months without wanting to see a single political video. Similarly, there are moments when a specific channel posts an excessive amount of content on a topic I'm currently not interested in. If sorting subscriptions was a RU-vid Premium feature, I'd gladly pay for it. Then again that kinda feels like extortion. Maybe similar to this script we could build our own user interface for youtube that simply ports the videos over into a layout that respects the user.

2 main things I dont like about YT shorts. 1. The makers still try to put in all their standard stuff. So now in a 1 minute vid theres the bait, the intro, the promo, the call to action, the outro, something silly, and THEN somewhere towards but not quite at the end is 1 moment of actual content. Instead of having those same things in a 5, 10, 15 minute or longer video that gives me much more content relative to the filler. 2. The try to keep me from having standard controls. So no fwding to the relavent content, no I have to sit through the whole thing to get to that 1 moment. There is an extension to view shorts in the regular player that fixes this bit. So its not as important as the 1st point. Thanks c.t. for making this vid!

The problem is that youtube converts short videos automatically into "shorts". I uploaded a video of 94 seconds and now it appears as a "short". Well, it actually is short but the format would be widescreen.

Thank you for that. I would love to see a Pi-Hole version of this. I don't mind ads (I don't use Pi-Hole to block ads, just to block trackers), those are the bread and butter of free content. I just don't want things like Shorts (or Facebook Reels) pushed on me. As you said, those that like them, wonderful. Enjoy. For those that don't, these tips to remove them are much appreciated.

Can this be done on my phone? Because I don’t RU-vid on laptop and I end up scrolling through shorts on my phone which is crossing a limit

People love putting spoilers to shows and movies in the thumbnail and title of shorts but not videos so THANK YOU

For anyone that wants to block shorts on the android app, there's a certain modded version of RU-vid you can get that lets you completely remove shorts, among other things. You don't need to root your phone for it, either.

Depressive ADHD Mobile Users are still trapped in their beds, scrolling shorts…

Wish there was something like this for the app...

Tysm ! Do you know if we can remove RU-vid shorts on the mobile app ? :(

Thanks a lot man, sometimes when I'm sad and I'm hot with some anxiety, and cant just stay awake and cannot stop rolling on shorts, God bless You man

i really wish youtube would just give a slider to disable them outright

Chris thanks this is a huge contribution in a community ❤

The "shorts will be disabled for 30 days" thing is infuriating. What a patronizing UI. Thank you for this.

even the algorithm has a beef with Shorts for recommending this video 😂 thank you, man

I don't usually comment a lot, but I want to show my appreciation for this video! I subconsciously watch RU-vid Shorts when it appears on my feed and it makes me waste hours and hours lying on my bed and consuming so much content. This helps a ton, thank you so much :)

0:17 That hand sync is so satisfying...

To everyone uploading videos. Please don't ever stop creating! Consistency is the key! If music is your passion we are here!

I don't usually comment on RU-vid videos, But This one...... I don't know how to Thank you. you are really a lifesaver. Thanks a lot.

This has gotta be one of the most useful 3mins I have watched in a good while.

This is incredible. I love watching youtube videos while I work, listening to video essays, learning about new things, but shorts allways seem yo distract me and waste my time, making me feel hollow inside afterwards. Now, if thete was a way to block them on the mobile app too, I'd be in paradise.

Thanks for the video I've been looking at a way to get rid of shorts permanently. I even made a complaint to youtube and spoke to someone to remove them as I am a paying subscriber to youtube and should be able to choose what I watch as I pay to get rid of annoying ads already but now I cant get rid of these annoying shorts. The best 'solution' they offered was the stop for 30 days option which is not a permanent solution. I told them this is not good enough and send my feedback to the developers. The staff member claimed they are working on a solution for people (btw which I don't believe for a second) I mentioned that I am not in the teenage demographic that enjoys this content then they just offered me free youtube for 2 weeks to compensate me. This was very patronising and now seeing this solution why don't they point people in this direction. Well obviously they don't care about their paying customers enough to do this or provide a solution which is not that hard too do. I was seriously thinking of just not paying anymore and installing an adblocker as these annoying shorts ruin the youtube long form experience.

Is there a plugin to just make shorts appear as regular videos? I hate shorts but sometimes I'll miss a vsauce upload or something because it's a short.

Sad that you can’t disable them on Mobile

Thanks, Chris… What about cellphone? Is there something to remove shorts from the RU-vid app?

Just want to say anyone who has decided to change their life by wanting to block RU-vid shorts I am proud of you👊👊

Man, I have no word to thank you, I am student who is addicted to shorts. You saved my life. Love you from India.

This is very easy to customize as well. I don't want the Shorts shelf on the main page, shorts in descriptions or the shorts link on the left bar but I do still want the Shorts tab on a channel's profile so if I do actually want to see the shorts from a specific channel, I can still easily seek them out without having to deal with them elsewhere on the site. Comment out a few lines and bam, it's good to go. Great job.

Is there any similar project for the mobile app?🙏

another way to remove the shorts tab alltogether is the extension "youtube tweaks" ... you can also cusfomize virtually everything else with the extension like color themes etc

you know things are fun when you are searching on youtube for a tutorial blocking something by youtube thanks for the guide btw :)

Love this, so tired of vertical, tiktok style, short format content. Would've never guessed it was this simple to do, thanks!

I've always wanted this. I hate shorts and I've wanted to remove them. This definitely helped 🙏

*ytb developers spending months to add this feature* Litterally everyone else: cool, so how can i remove it?

I think RU-vid already understands that I hate shorts, so I never see them on my homepage lol

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I’ve been researching for a way to block shorts for MONTHS, you have no idea how pleased I was to see this pop up in my recommended!

Definitely appreciated, it used to have a toggle on mobile which is my main weakness. I like checking them out once in a while because there's some informative and fun ones but it's so easy to accidentally be in it and get eye grabbed on something

I really need to thank you for this! These days, it's so easy to get distracted. I can delete the apps from my phone, but I need my laptop to work and I can't just delete something like RU-vid, but this makes it way less distracting! This will save me hours!

Thanks for helping find a solution to block this content diarrhea. Much appreciated!

Any way to remove this from the app?

Man... if you knew how many times I had complained to RU-vid about polluting my feed with Shorts. Well done and thanks for sharing! Now next we need to get rid of the "For You" section that started appearing a couple months ago. "For You" is even worse as it shows me ancient videos for each creator I subscribe to that I have no desire what so ever to view, or I already watched it many years or months prior. What I want when I visit a creator's page is the MOST RECENT VIDEO that they have published. Why show me old stuff?

Thank you for having this! I am gonna love having a "Shorts" free youtube!

is it possible to block shorts on your phone while using the yt app instead of a browser like on your computer?

My man, you just saved me so much time and being disapointed in myself for ending up watching shorts again. This is exactly what I needed, I even looked in youtubes settings to see if I could disable them

I've got nothing specifically against RU-vid videos which happen to be of quite short duration - sometimes you don't need 8 mins to convey the content - but RU-vid Shorts as a format can go jump in a lake (toned down to comply with community-friendly guidelines).

I'm using a translator to write this post, so I apologize for the mistakes, but man, you literally saved me! thank you so much for saving me from those annoying shorts that prevent me from watching adequate long videos! lots of love and likes from russia!💕💕💕💕

How do I do this for the RU-vid app

Agreed. Sometimes.

This is great! We gotta do it for mobile next!

PLEEEASEEE make the same video for phone too

For those on android, this is an option in ReVanced

how can I do this on mobile?

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I've been trying to block them for some time now. They do waste your time and dumb you down. by design.

⁠​​⁠@ChrisTitusTech Is there a way to do this on your phone? I hate shorts with a passion but am so addicted to them.

Aside from getting dumber watching shorts, doesn't anyone else feel like really sore after spending too much time on shorts? like all your energy is depleted? One day at school a teacher was talking about that, and i was already at the time in this process of self improvement so i agreed a lot with her, but one thing that she said really struck with me. It was something like "After you finish your work or a difficult task you just want to lay on the couch and rest for a little while, but you bring your phone with you and start scrolling on tik tok. Then time passes and you get up again but you still feel sore, like you haven't rested at all." That felt so relatable, like really, you can't spend too much time in there because your brain kind of goes off and you're just spending time and energy on something completely unproductive. Just wanted to get that out, sorry for my bad grammar, english isn't my first language.