A simple userscript to remove the Shorts feature from YouTube.
This script redirects all /shorts/ URLs on YouTube to /watch.
It also converts all Shorts renderers to regular ones, making their timestamps show instead of the shorts sign.
First, you will need to install a userscript manager, such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey.
Then, open the following link:
As it stands, this script removes Shorts video renderers from the page and attempts to redirect all URLs. There are still a few locations that this behaviour does not occur:
- The Shorts guide item
- Shorts video renderers on channel homepages