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Comment by ygouzerh | Hacker News Reader

That's so true. I love Youtube for its music, documentaries and software engineering content.

But I hate the Shorts features, if I click on only one video, it sucks all my night.

I built a small app for blocking the Shorts features, in this way I can enjoy the advantages without having the bad sides.

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There is an add-on called unhook that allows you to disable almost everything on youtube. I turned off shorts, recommendations, the home page even the comments. Now all I see is my subsriptions page. It really stopped me from wasting hours hopping videos.

It also workes on firefox mobile, I stopped using the default youtube app.

I started using Chrome plugin RYS that does something similar - where youtube functions but recommendations are removed. It's helped consumption dramatically. I'm kinda wondering if I need to do the same for reddit and hacker news where links/articles would work but the mainpage / subreddit pages wouldn't.

Unfortunately, it doesn't disable shorts from the subscriptions tab. Which is really annoying now that all my preferred creators are making shorts, and it tries to suck me into doomscrolling.

I've heard if you select "Not interested" for all the shorts in your feed one time - that will stop them.

Only for 30 days for me. I want to disable shorts from my recommendations altogether.

Try Unhook. You can hide all but the video player if you want.

On mobile just use the website.

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