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Maintained - uBlock Origin filter list to hide YouTube Shorts

AI summary: A maintained uBlock Origin filter list dedicated entirely to hiding all traces of YouTube Shorts.

Stars: 863; +1 today
Forks: 20
Watchers: 7
Open issues: 0
Open PRs: 0
Contributors: ~11
Commits: 95
Branches: 2

MITCreated Feb 14, 2026Last push 1mo ago+1 stars this week+1 this month

Star history

since Feb 8, 2026

863 stars as of Aug 7, 2026, tracked back to Feb 8, 2026. Historical curve reconstructed from public GitHub event archives, calibrated to the current total.

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commits per day, last 52 weeks

29 commits in the last yearLessMore

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Permissive license
MIT

What ublock-hide-yt-shorts does

This project provides a comprehensive and actively maintained set of CSS injection and network filtering rules for uBlock Origin, designed to surgically remove YouTube Shorts from the web interface. By applying this list, users can eliminate Shorts from the sidebar, home feed, search results, and subscription pages without breaking standard video functionality. The list is continuously updated to combat YouTube's frequent DOM structure changes and A/B tests, ensuring a distraction-free viewing experience focused purely on traditional long-form content.

YouTube users utilizing uBlock Origin on desktop browsers who prefer traditional video formats over short-form content.

Comprehensive removal: Hides Shorts shelves from the homepage, trending tab, and individual channel pages.
Sidebar cleanup: Removes the dedicated Shorts button from the main YouTube navigation sidebar.
Search filtering: Prevents Shorts from polluting standard YouTube search results.
Active maintenance: Frequently updated to counter YouTube's stealthy CSS class obfuscation and layout updates.
Zero-breakage design: Carefully scopes CSS rules to ensure standard video thumbnails and playlists remain untouched.

Where teams use it

Distraction-free browsing

Users can block short-form doomscrolling to focus exclusively on educational or long-form videos.

Child account filtering

Parents can apply the filter to reduce algorithmic rabbit holes for younger viewers on shared computers.

Clean UI customization

Minimalists can remove unwanted UI clutter to streamline the desktop YouTube experience.

Subscription feed management

Viewers can stop Shorts from burying actual video uploads in their subscription feeds.

Getting started: Copy the raw list.txt URL and paste it into the 'Import' section of the uBlock Origin dashboard.

README

master branch

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

A maintained uBlock Origin filter list to hide all traces of YouTube shorts videos.

Copy the link below, go to uBlock Origin > Dashboard > Filter lists, scroll to the bottom, and paste the link underneath the 'Import...' heading:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/list.txt

> uBlock Origin subscribe link < (does not work on GitHub)

Bonus: hide YouTube Comments

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/comments.txt

> uBlock Origin subscribe link < (does not work on GitHub)

Bonus: hide YouTube Playables

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/playables.txt

> uBlock Origin subscribe link < (does not work on GitHub)

Maintenance

After the initial createor of this list @gijsdev is now vanished for half a year, i ( i5heu ) took it on me to maintain this list.

No affiliation to Alphabet, YouTube or Google

This project is an independent, open-source initiative and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or associated with Alphabet Inc., Google LLC, or YouTube.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

License

See LICENSE.md

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Recent activity

commits and pull requests

Fixes Port changes to original repositoryMerged
#14 by i5heu · updated 1mo ago
Merge pull request #14 from i5heu/port-of-@hhhuut-changes
i5heu committed 5381e07 · 1mo ago
Fixes Port changes to original repository
i5heu committed 1ad02c7 · 1mo ago
Hide shorts section on subscription pageMerged
#12 by ddtuan99 · updated 3mo ago
Update list.txt
i5heu committed 6ab9116 · 3mo ago
Merge pull request #12 from ddtuan99/sub-page
i5heu committed 1f78347 · 3mo ago
Hide shorts section on subscription page
ddtuan99 committed eb1b63b · 3mo ago
Hide shorts inside video list in search pageMerged
#10 by ddtuan99 · updated 4mo ago
Hide all shorts in search page for mobile siteMerged
#9 by ddtuan99 · updated 4mo ago
Merge pull request #9 from ddtuan99/master
i5heu committed 3cc2f4e · 4mo ago
Merge pull request #10 from ddtuan99/fix-#8
i5heu committed 5b9472a · 4mo ago
Hide shorts appear as video item in search page
ddtuan99 committed b77594b · 4mo ago

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+152 lines added, -80 removed over the last year.

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29 commits in the last 52 weeks.

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Who is committing

last 52 weeks

Maintainer commits23 (57%)

Community commits17 (43%)

40 commits in total over the last year.

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Contribution activity

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What ublock-hide-yt-shorts does

Where teams use it

Distraction-free browsing

Child account filtering

Clean UI customization

Subscription feed management

README

uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

Bonus: hide YouTube Comments

Bonus: hide YouTube Playables

Maintenance

No affiliation to Alphabet, YouTube or Google

Contributing

License

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