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PewDiePie Promoting Self-Hosting, Blocking Ads, Shorts and more
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I dont really understand, is it possible to block JUST the shorts on Youtube? Any idea where i can find more about that?
I dont want to leave youtube just yet, but occasionally the shorts are melting my brain.
There is an extension for Firefox for blocking shorts. You lose the shorts button and any short you access through a link is converted into a regular, full size video.
On android you can hide/remove with revanced.
Revanced not working so well lately...
Check out Morphe which is a fork of revanced and better maintained https://github.com/morpheapp
I tried it twice... First it stopped with a file not found exemption in a temp folder...
The next time the app crashed.
Mine started acting weird on wifi today, so I updated it. Getting a sponsorblock error 502, but working otherwise.
2.2.2 came out 12 hours ago, updating now to check it all again.
Here is the YouTube version I'm using.
2.2.2 is bugging out when compiling for me.
So I'm SoL.
Maybe I'll try CLI... If I get bored or Firefox stops working(w/ublock.)
Give it a few days, I got a popup saying there was an issue, they're working on it.
Okay, since I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, you can block shorts using ublock origin. You can block pretty much any component on any website.
https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
I just block it with uBlock element picker (do the same for the sidebar and comments)
Seconding ReVanced. RVX works like a charm. Not ready to leave the Google ecosystem just yet. But, when I do, I'll switch to primarily using NewPipe.
I'm also keeping track of Haven as they may be an up and coming YT alternative for artists and creatives. They're currently in seed funding so it'll be interesting to see if they can get off the ground.
I know Brave is a big no no in these woods but they offer an option to select your own Content Filtering lists and one of those is Youtube Shorts.
Fantastic privacy feature.
Also they have Paywall Blocker, AI Suggsstion Blocker... Etc etc
On Android you can remove shorts with Brave