YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts

Re:YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts by insin on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:19PM (#47787550)

Upvoting because Shorts are terrible. Flagging because the submission title - which is 100% faithful to the friendly article - is a complete lie!

Plug: I added a bunch of features to Control Panel for YouTube [1] which let you either hide Shorts completely, everywhere (which is the default) or take more control of how you use them if you do (e.g. redirecting to the normal video player)

[1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube

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Re:YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts by drouetg on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:17AM (#47790603)

Great addon thank you

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Re:YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts by throwawaymobule on Thursday April 16, 2026 @09:44AM (#47792856)

I wish they'd show up like regular videos in the subscription feed, like they used to a few years ago.

Currently, I have to guess who uploaded a short to decide if I want to watch it.

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Re:YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts by LutfuRadu on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:52AM (#47795183)

Fantastic add-on! I couldn't find an option to hide games ("playables") - did I miss it?

There seems to be a conflict with U block origin on Firefox on Android. The control panel didn't work when U block was on, even after I disabled "block ads" in the panel.

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