The easy way to do this is to hide them with custom CSS

- Install Stylebot extension for your browser

- make an entry for youtube.com

- enter this css: .shortsLockupViewModelHost { display: none}

Bam, no more shorts.

brycewray an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Stylebot is no longer actively developed, but the similar (and open-source) Stylus extension is.

Hoodedcrow 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be fair, Ublock Origin is a lot more common, and the less extensions the better, so or a lot of people this would be the better way.

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		You can also just use Tamper Monkey (though you need to add a script called Trusted Type Helper in order to inject CSS into YouTube). I used to use Stylebot but I switched everything over to Tamper Monkey so all my CSS and non CSS related scripts would be in one place. Tamper Monkey/Grease Monkey scripts are very portable too, I use my scripts in Safari on iOS via the UserScripts extension.

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