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FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

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269 points youz | 6 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 1.195s | source | bottom
1. skaul ◴[23 Oct 25 22:24 UTC] No.45688140[source]▶
This is easy in Brave, just go to brave://settings/shields/filters and enable the "YouTube Anti-Shorts" filter list.
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2. binaryturtle ◴[23 Oct 25 22:40 UTC] No.45688295[source]▶
I simply add "0.0.0.0 youtube.com" to the (network wide) hosts file on my router. Problem solved. I'm simply do understand why the problem is just with "shorts", most of the "longs" are not worth wasting time with either. :-)
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3. wvenable ◴[23 Oct 25 22:42 UTC] No.45688334[source]▶
YouTube has a massive amount of edutainment content that is absolutely fantastic. Content that could never make it onto mainstream television.

At this point I think I owe all my hobbies to YouTube.

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4. sandblast ◴[24 Oct 25 06:26 UTC] No.45691479{3}[source]▶
And why do you need all these hobbies?
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5. rkomorn ◴[24 Oct 25 06:28 UTC] No.45691498{4}[source]▶
Why does this matter?
6. beala ◴[24 Oct 25 06:35 UTC] No.45691535[source]▶
You can also block any arbitrary page element and that block will persist between page loads. I think it’s in right click menu. I used this to permanently block the YouTube chat feature.