Hides YouTube Shorts and Instagram/Facebook Reels: nav, feeds, search, DMs — and redirects short-form links home.
Users
40
+16 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#118K
#99K among extensions
Version
1.9.0
updated 12 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 20 Oct 2026:40 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 20 Oct 2026:1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About ShortBlock
ShortBlock removes short-form video from YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
It hides the entry points — the Shorts button in YouTube's sidebar, the Reels item in Instagram's and Facebook's navigation, the Reels tab on profiles and pages — and the content itself: Shorts shelves on the home feed, Reels mixed into feeds and Explore, Shorts in search results and watch-page recommendations.
Short-form URLs redirect to the site's home page, so a link someone sends you doesn't open a feed of them.
Reels shared into Instagram DMs and Messenger threads are replaced with a small "Reel hidden" marker, on the same side of the thread the message was on, so you can still tell a message arrived without the video playing.
Everything is toggleable per site from the toolbar popup, and a URL mentioned in a comment, caption or post body is left alone — only recommendations and thumbnails are removed.
No network requests, no analytics, no accounts. The only thing stored is your toggle settings.