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FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

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269 points youz | 7 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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siavosh ◴[23 Oct 25 22:27 UTC] No.45688168[source]▶
I wish there was something for the app. I haven't tried it recently but you could kind of stop the shorts being displayed for a brief period of time before it re-asserted itself. And I already pay for ad-free youtube wish it was at least a premium feature but obviously makes no sense from corporate point of view.
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1. dotnet00 ◴[23 Oct 25 22:35 UTC] No.45688246[source]▶
For Android, you can hide all shorts stuff by patching the apk via ReVanced Manager.
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2. 360MustangScope ◴[23 Oct 25 22:45 UTC] No.45688372[source]▶
Not to worry, you soon won’t be able to do that in the next version
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3. lelandbatey ◴[23 Oct 25 23:03 UTC] No.45688560[source]▶
Not quite true AFAICT. You'll have to register as an android developer and use your own signing keys, or use some sketchilly acquired/disseminated signing keys. The apps don't have to be actually published/acquired through the app store, but their authorship signature has to be able to be tracked back to _someone_ in Google's big DB. Someone may even just decide to include their keys into Revanced manager to allow it to keep working; we don't know what Google will do if someone just brazenly says "sure, I'm a registered android developer, and yeah, my signing keys are used to sign tons of apps that all seem to be named 'Revanced' on many people's phones. What of it?" Maybe Google will try to ban them, maybe they won't. They've not released any explanation of what they'll actually do once all apps have to be signed.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, that was how I understood the recent announcements.

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4. angst ◴[24 Oct 25 05:23 UTC] No.45691055{3}[source]▶
Thanks for clarification, but it sounds quite true to me if I'm reading "Maybe Google will try to ban them, maybe they won't." correctly...
5. nicman23 ◴[24 Oct 25 05:37 UTC] No.45691161[source]▶
not to worry i have been running custom roms since 4.2.1 and you should too
6. xorcist ◴[24 Oct 25 06:48 UTC] No.45691625{3}[source]▶
How many developer accounts can you register, once Google starts requiring enough personal information including callback to phone numbers?

Because the banhammer is coming down, sooner or later.

7. sunaookami ◴[24 Oct 25 11:33 UTC] No.45693534{3}[source]▶
You can just install APKs via adb and it will work like before without fiddling with keys or verifications.