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[–] siravious@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Cheers wholesome netizen. Appreciate you sharing about things like this..

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

I have not found a way to block YouTube short on mobile, but on computer (Firefox) I installed the addon tampermonkey. This addon allows custom script, and smart people have written scripts (GitHub) to block any form of yt-shorts.

It works

[–] rezad@lemmy.world 2 points 36 minutes ago

would have been nice to share the scripts link here.

[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 1 points 54 minutes ago

NewPipe application only shows videos, never shorts unless you go into the shorts section on someones channel.

I honestly love NewPipe and the way it pulls the latest videos from your subscriptions, it really ensures you don't fall into algorithmic viewing because of the first thing which shows up when you open the app.

[–] Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I am using the YouTube Tweak extension on Firefox, which has a lot of options, including hiding shorts.

On mobile I am using PipePipe and YouTube Morphe for that.

[–] Johandea@feddit.nu 1 points 1 hour ago

I have not found a way to block YouTube short on mobile

ReVanced works great for me