Limit your Shorts scrolling to zero minutes per day.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260415222700/https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero-minutes
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The is changed on Android, at least, now. 15 min is the minimum so you can’t disable it entirely.
Why don’t they just make them behave like normal videos? The problem with shorts is the repeating and the endless scrolling (and the ever-present prompt to scroll). A lot of perfectly useful/entertaining content has been recommended to me by the static presentation on the home screen.
That’s the whole idea of shorts and tiktok style though; rapidly consuming quick content.
I think its interesting that for some people, that experience is deeply uncomfortable, and for others its necessary. It may sound over the top but I see a lot of parallels to hard drug addiction.
I don’t think it’s necessary for anyone, though I understand you probably mean they feel it is. They’ve done at least one study I read which showed that being fed content actually makes you stupid in the immediate short-term (long-term was outside the scope of the study). Consuming the same content by selecting which ones you want to see caused no problems. It’s the removal of agency that’s thought to be the problem, training your brain to be passive.
I just use this extension that plays them like normal videos. The UX for shorts is dumb as fuck
I use this simple userscript, no need for a random extension that only works in chrome https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439993-youtube-shorts-redirect/code
Same it’s the best of both. Sometimes I actually want to watch a short because it’s relevant. The problem is that the UI autoplays the next video and you can’t time scrub back to the bit you probably wanted to see a second time and before you know it you’re watching cat videos and 1 hour has passed.
OH THANK GOD
Edit: why no zero option.
because fuck you watch our ads that’s why
NewPipe literally has none of this shit. The various invidious instances as well. If you continue to use the official YouTube app, that’s on you.
Even Revanced has the options to hide Shorts or open them as regular videos. So does youtube.com with a simple Redirector rule.
this is app only and the 0 hour limit is now gone
sadly useless advice now
Shorts should have been a different app in the first place
used Revanced to get rid of them already
Heard it got discontinued by devs leaving over POS repo owner and that “Morphe” is it’s successor with the devs moving there instead.
great, more drama for me to figure out.
Looks pretty painless to me. Yes, I like to find something and when it works, stick with it as I have with ReVanced. But I’m going to try this and if I have any troubles I’ll edit this comment.
I feel you. Learned about it just recently but revanced still works for me so I’m not going to bother changing anything right now.
Revanced is the best thing to happen to YouTube!
Been using it since YouTube Vanced became brokie and I’ve loved every change they’ve made, even with GitHub trying to stop them
I was just updating recently, and the launcher really is a beast now, all in one, almost fully automated, right here on my phone
I hated how shorts were designed to draw me into this app so much, that i deleted it all together. Now i reinstalled it, just to find out, that the feature is not yet rolled out to me.
I used revanced to completely disable shorts in the YouTube app.
Morphe
Mine doesn’t have an option for 0.
Lame.
Those shorts are entertaining little chunks of nothing that have no date and are usually cut off at the end. I’m thankful I can urn them off.
Blocked with uBO a long time ago. lmao
til uBO has this feature
Not out of the box, but it can block basically anything if you create a custom filter.
I even use it to re-size the thumbnails so I get 5 videos per row on my feed instead of just 3.
Can you teach me how to do these things?
You need to learn the uBlock filter syntax and an basic understanding of HTML:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Introduction-to-basic-filtering-syntax
You can block lots of things with the picker.
Revance you can block it too.
It doesn’t actually turn off shorts, just prevents (limits) infinite scrolling.
You’ll still be recommended shorts and if you accidentally click a short it will play.
Absurd that we need YouTube for that. In an ideal world, YouTube would be a backend service with an open API which there would be dozens of different apps for, with different features, including maybe this one… but I suppose you can’t make money with an ideal world…
Already blocked with revanced
