How To Remove YouTube Shorts

This is how I have OLD School YouTube back and browse without ANY Shorts!

[dave-]

What’s wrong is YouTube 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 YouTube platform.
I hate shorts and hate the way Youtube is going.

[loukitmyname]

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

[kessahmed]

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

[pixiwix]

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!

[CapitanoAraym]

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 Youtube 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.

[gia]

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.

[evan]

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

[DemoniteBL]

Alternate title: "How to cure YouTube's cancer"

[NukaOrQuantum]

Dude, this video was recommended on my home page, and it feels like a total blessing! YouTube 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!

[JoeBloggs]

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.

[MnrvaMndrp]

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

[joostvanassenbergh]

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!

[domteretto]

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 YouTube added the short video feature which lead me back to my old habits. Thank you for making this video

[gauravnehare]

Some people do come on YouTube 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.

[ibrahemabbas]

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!

[yaaaa]

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!

[Ilovesushi]

I think YouTube 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

[gabzkas]

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

[braydoncoate]

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.

[kakyointenmei]

can you pls make a version for smartphones??