uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by driverdan on Saturday February 14, 2026 @07:39PM (#47019958)

I'm not OP but I pay because I want to support content creators. It also removes ads from players that don't have blocking, such as Roku.

Of course there are other ways to support creators such as donating and buying swag. I do that too.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by joelthelion on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:16PM (#47020176)

By paying for youtube, you're supporting Google and walled gardens more than creators, I'd argue.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by wilg on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:24PM (#47020221)

Not financially, since creators get 55% of YouTube premium fees.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by sidrag22 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @11:18PM (#47021018)

almost all creators have some other way to get paid by viewers, and they'll take a good chunk more than 55%, why give google a dime. Not to mention its more direct support for the creators you actually care about, and an absurd higher amount than a subscription would ever benefit that individual.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by joelthelion on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:31PM (#47020248)

That's very short-sighted though. The money is forcing everyone (users and creators) to stay on YouTube, no matter how big of a cut they take or how much crap they throw at us as users.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by pseudohadamard on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:35PM (#47020806)

Look at it the other way round, Google takes nearly half of their income, where they're putting a huge amount of time and energy into creating content while Google's contribution is hosting the data on a server. It also reinforces the YouTube hostage situation where content creators can't afford to leave the abusive relationship because they'll lose most of the income that Google isn't already taking off them.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by wilg on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:29PM (#47039910)

If that's all of Google's contribution then creators should have no problem hosting the data themselves and keeping the difference for themselves.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by drnick1 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:48PM (#47020586)

You are much better off donating money directly or buying merch than further inflating Google's profits.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by JoshTriplett on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:35AM (#47022050)

> I pay because I want to support content creators

I do too; I pay them via Patreon.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by IG_Semmelweiss on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:38PM (#47019550)

i'm the same as you, but YT has started to place its content behind sign-in wall

Anon usage + uBlock and VPN, is a dead man walking

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by drnick1 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:51PM (#47020601)

> YT has started to place its content behind sign-in wall

Any examples of that?

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by wpm on Saturday February 14, 2026 @11:36PM (#47021090)

yt-dlp has to have you install an entire JS runtime for it to function now.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by IG_Semmelweiss on Friday February 20, 2026 @06:35PM (#47095599)

Try opening any monetized video behind a VPN service, with a clean browser cache, and not using chrome .

50/50 it will play, without logging in 1st

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by stbtrax on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:20PM (#47019428)

doesn’t work on iPad or iOS? Also not worth my time given how cheap it is

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:51PM (#47019205)

Hacker News commenters: “I don’t like ads. They are evil”

Also HN commenters: “I don’t want to pay for goods and services”

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by calmbonsai on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:16PM (#47019403)

I pay for plenty of other media (music, games, sports, comedy, books) and even do some Patreon for a few podcasts and YT channels, but I refuse to directly support a publishing monopoly that has had an actively user-hostile interface for over a decade.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:32PM (#47019519)

I do too. I don’t use YouTube with the one exception of official AWS videos. But those don’t have commercials.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by dietr1ch on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:20PM (#47019433)

And how do I pay for a YouTube competitor that's libre or at least won't spy back without losing access to its monopolisticly large catalog?

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:48PM (#47019630)

Yes I know that Google just reported YouTube’s revenue is larger than Netflix’s. But I really don’t find anything interesting on YouTube. Every time I try to find an interesting tutorial on for me AWS, if it isn’t produced by AWS itself, it’s usually subpar and I end up just paying for it on Udemy or using my company paid Pluralsight.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by dietr1ch on Sunday February 15, 2026 @12:32AM (#47021321)

I find plenty of interesting videos, but I needed to slowly craft my following list.

I started with some CS lectures, and conference talks and it was alright, but something I reached for out of necessity.

Once I started watching videos out of curiosity I slowly ended up finding channels around my hobbies that filled my feed with pretty interesting stuff. There's good content out there beyond dense lectures, but also a lot of crap. I built my curated list of channels making videos worth watching and rarely watch something outside of those.

Similarly to music discovery, once you find what you like keep an eye on neighboring artists. I stay curious, but I'm quick to reject.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by AlexandrB on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:56PM (#47019234)

I pay for plenty of goods and services. Just not YouTube. As others have noted, YouTube premium makes ads go away, but none of the other engagement baiting and user disrespecting anti-patterns. As far as I'm concerned, Google is in adversarial relationship with its users, whether your paying or not.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by sam_bristow on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:55PM (#47019678)

I currently pay for YouTube premium but I'm strongly considering stopping again. For me it's a combination of prices creeping up (small part) and the worsening UX and engagement-bait (big part). It's the same reason I dropped Spotify a few years ago.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by sidrag22 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @11:27PM (#47021054)

i dropped spotify because i saw how terrible the non paid version of spotify is between payments, and was offended at how much i felt they used my library to hold me hostage.

Im not interested in being held hostage to pay a company xx$ a month for literally my entire life. At least when a netflix subscription is over, its not crafting up ways to torture its users into feeling obligated to resubscribe. Not that i like the streaming video services much either...

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:19PM (#47019421)

I don’t know. But most of the time when I don’t like a service, I don’t use it. I know that’s a crazy idea. I find YouTube like everything Google does a piss poor user experience. I’m forced to only use it to watch official AWS videos and those don’t have ads.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by phero_cnstrcts on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:02PM (#47019282)

Does it make the sponsor sections of the videos go away too?

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by Nannooskeeska on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:12PM (#47019367)

No, but SponsorBlock[0] is fantastic for that. I even have it setup on my home server[1] so it skips sponsor segments on my Apple TV, which is where we watch most of our YouTube.

[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/ [1] https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by Gigachad on Saturday February 14, 2026 @07:27PM (#47019876)

It makes them less annoying. With premium if you hit the scrub forward button once it jumps directly to the end of the sponsor section

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by PlatoIsADisease on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:31PM (#47019514)

Normies who can't figure out the 3 buttons it takes to use ublock pay for such things.

Its a tax on not being smart?

I'm mostly kidding, but I just use ublock and I've never considered buying youtube premium. Try harder google?

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by AngryNPC on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:03PM (#47019291)

With the change in culture here, especially in the last 2-3 years, HN might as well be called Reddit News now. So it's not surprising that most people aren't consistent with their principles.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by shermantanktop on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:11PM (#47019356)

Was HN known for consistency of principles before? I don’t remember that.

Whenever an online community is anthropomorphized as an individual, it looks hypocritical. The only groups that don’t look hypocritical are monocultural backwaters of groupthink, permabans, and self-editing.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by Bender on Sunday February 15, 2026 @09:32AM (#47023988)

Also HN commenters: “I don’t want to pay for goods and services”

People became used to getting a thing for free then it slowly enshittified over time into the current blend of grift and bait. They also strongly promote via shorts the very things they discouraged because sex sells. Now they are promoting AI generated bait. As such they deserve any and all vitriol in my opinion. I personally would never pay for that hot mess.

I watch a few popular channels because I can but probably not much longer. Eventually I will just watch the videos people copy over to Rumble until that platform follows the grift patterns of YT. It won't be long.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by madaxe_again on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:14PM (#47020444)

Because it’s $6 a month where I live and at that price it’s easier than any faffing or arms race with Adblock.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by drnick1 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:53PM (#47020610)

uBlock Origin updates its lists automatically. If you want to spend $6, just donate to uBlock instead and never see an ad again on 99% of the Internet.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by codecutter on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:00PM (#47020644)

uBlock origin does not accept donations. I would have loved to donate to them, but they don't.

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Re:uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts by bluehex on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:26PM (#47020485)

I pay mainly because a really like being able to play the videos in iOS pip background mode. I do find it crazy that Apple allows that OS level feature to be paywalled by apps.

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