Long Pants: Hide YouTube Shorts

Hides Shorts across desktop YouTube and stops them from opening, or plays them as regular videos instead.

Long Pants takes YouTube Shorts off YouTube on your computer. Gone from every page The Shorts shelf on your homepage disappears, along with the ones mixed into your feed, Subscriptions, search results, channel pages, notifications and the column beside a video. The menu button and the channel tab go too. They won't open Click one and nothing happens. Open a Shorts link from a text, an email or another site, and you land on the homepage instead. Or watch them like normal videos Prefer the odd one? Switch to "Play as a video" and they open in the regular player, with a seek bar and no swiping to the next one. One switch to pause Turn Long Pants off from the toolbar whenever you want them back. Your settings sync across computers if you use Chrome sync. Private No account, no ads, no tracking. Long Pants doesn't collect or send any data, and it only runs on YouTube. Long Pants is an independent project and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.