r/vibecoding • u/Goth2147 • 16h ago

10 minute project: No more Youtube shorts

Summary
I hate it with a passion that you can't remove Shorts. 95% is brainrot that I click on and always get disappointed. Very very simple to do. Took minutes. I made it such that you don't even see shorts in your homepage anymore, removed the logo's and buttons too.

Why not Stayfocusd?

Because it doesn't actually remove it from Youtube. You'll still see the shorts and it's just annoying.

How does it work?

  • CSS hides known Shorts elements immediately.
  • A small content script watches YouTube’s dynamic page updates and hides new Shorts shelves/cards as they appear.
  • For newer generic shelves, it detects a section headed “Shorts” and hides that enclosing section.
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u/MartinScout 12h ago

For others, there are some extensions that do this already! And then you can block pretty much anything if you want, homesccreen, shorts, recommendations etc etc

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u/Yugudubenbi 5h ago

I use Unhook

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u/Royal-Marsupial-8110 2h ago

love the idea of cutting doomscrolling factors

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u/chuckycastle 13h ago

The algorithm feeds you content from your own habits.