AI 产品解读YouTube Shorts blocking and redirection extension that converts Shorts URLs to regular video player URLs and hides Shorts content
Users who dislike the YouTube Shorts vertical video format and poor desktop UI can automatically redirect Shorts to play in the regular video player with better controls
1. User installs extension and it activates automatically on YouTube pages
2. When navigating to a Shorts URL, extension intercepts and redirects to regular video player
3. Extension monitors DOM changes and hides Shorts content (tabs, video thumbnails) based on user settings
4. User can toggle features on/off via the popup menu (enable/disable extension, hide Shorts tab, hide Shorts videos)
Redirect YouTube Shorts URLs (youtube.com/shorts/xxx) to regular video player (youtube.com/watch?v=xxx)Hide the Shorts tab from YouTube's left sidebar navigationHide Shorts video thumbnails from YouTube feeds and search resultsAdd 'Open in Regular Player' button on Shorts pages for manual redirectionConfigurable settings via extension popup
- 目标用户
- YouTube desktop users who prefer the regular video player over the Shorts format / Users who want a cleaner YouTube experience without Shorts recommendations / Users who find the Shorts UI poorly optimized for PC
- Extension popup UI is partially in Japanese, indicating primary target audience may be Japanese users
- The 'hide shorts video' feature is marked as unstable in the UI warning
付费分析未识别到付费功能
The extension is completely free with no payment processing, subscription management, or premium feature gating. All features (redirect shorts, hide shorts tab, hide shorts videos, extended GUI) are available without any paywall. The keyword 'subscription' hit was from _metadata/verified_contents.json (Chrome's signature file), and 'pro' hits were false positives from 'properly' text and JavaScript Promise objects.
- 置信度
- 100
- 支付平台
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- 来源
- AI / 高
- 需要登录
- 否
- 登录理由
- The extension operates entirely locally without any authentication system. It only uses chrome.storage.local to save user preferences. No login UI, no user account creation, no authentication tokens, and no external service authentication are present in the codebase.
Chad, based, long live the long-form format
Blocks entire news and live tabs
Works well, but it is also blocking the "news" section for some reason
It's working!
Oh, there was an option to not hide shorts. In general I dislike shorts, I hate the shorts UI, but some of my subscriptions do upload shorts that I do want to watch.
it now blocks the entire "news" tab for some reason.
life saver
5 star recommended
good work
can feel my attention span increasing