YouTube Shorts Remover & Ads Blocker

Enjoy YouTube without Shorts and unwanted ads. Lightweight, private, and 100% local — no tracking, no data collection.Enjoy YouTube without Shorts and unwanted ads. YouTube Shorts Remover & Ads Blocker gives you a cleaner, distraction-free YouTube — automatically hiding Shorts everywhere they appear and blocking ads where technically possible, while keeping your normal videos, search, subscriptions, and playlists working exactly as expected. WHAT IT REMOVES - Shorts from the homepage, search results, subscriptions feed, channel pages, recommendations, sidebars, and related videos - Shorts that load in as you scroll (infinite scroll included) - Direct Shorts links — opening a youtube.com/shorts/ URL sends you back to the homepage instead - Video ads, banner ads, overlay ads, and sponsored/in-feed ad cards WHAT IT NEVER TOUCHES - Normal videos (watch?v=... pages) - Search, subscriptions, playlists, or comments - Your videos or account — nothing is downloaded, modified, or re-uploaded SIMPLE CONTROLS Open the popup for three independent switches: - Protection (master ON/OFF) - Shorts Removal - Ads Blocking Your preferences are saved locally and take effect instantly — no page reload needed. BUILT FOR PRIVACY - Runs 100% locally in your browser - Collects no browsing history and no YouTube viewing history - Sends no data to any external server - No analytics, no tracking, no accounts - Requests only the minimum permissions needed to work on youtube.com PERFORMANCE-FIRST Built with Manifest V3, a single efficient MutationObserver, and declarativeNetRequest network rules — designed to stay lightweight even during long YouTube sessions. Note: YouTube regularly changes its site, and some ads are served from the same infrastructure as video playback, so no extension can promise to block 100% of ads forever. This extension is actively structured so its filtering rules can be updated as YouTube changes.