No Shorts

YouTube Shorts, when viewed on a computer, use a completely different player with a whole new format. Scrubbing (going back / forward by a few seconds) is impossible, the description is basically hidden and the scroll-down-to-view-comments instinct now fails. I would rather view suggestions on the right hand side than just jump to a new video on the slightest scroll. To do just that, I made this extension.

This extension restores the old YouTube player when viewing Shorts. It does so by making use of the declarativeNetRequest API, which is only available in Chrome Manifest V3. No script injection takes place.

How to Download

1. Use this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_r2WIbxxQBPwGXUfcHmmkz_ef5ZuCLLY?usp=sharing and unzip

OR

1. Open your terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to store this folder
2. Use: git clone https://github.com/AweSamarth/no-shorts/

How to Install

1. Open Chrome (or any Chromium based browser)
2. Enter chrome://extensions in the url bar.
3. Toggle 'Developer Mode'
4. Click on Load Unpacked
5. Select the folder named no-shorts

That's pretty much it! Enjoy browsing YouTube while this extension does all the work for you behind the scenes!