A community-maintained filtering project is offering uBlock Origin users a direct way to hide YouTube Shorts across the video platform. Hosted on GitHub under the name `ublock-hide-yt-shorts`, the project describes itself as a filter list intended to remove traces of Shorts videos from the YouTube experience.
The repository provides a raw list URL that users can add through uBlock Origin's dashboard. Its documented installation route is to open the extension's Filter lists section, move to the import area near the bottom and paste the supplied address. The repository also displays a subscription link, although its documentation cautions that the subscription action does not work directly on GitHub. The raw address is therefore the key installation detail for anyone following the manual route. Because the list is delivered through the extension’s existing import interface, the repository’s role is to supply and maintain the rules rather than install a separate YouTube client. The project page directs users back to those hosted text resources whenever they want to add the filters.
Alongside the main list, the project supplies two additional raw files. One is identified as a comments list and the other as a playables list, allowing users to import those resources separately. The documentation therefore presents the project as a small set of targeted filters rather than a conventional application or a replacement interface for YouTube. Keeping those addresses distinct also makes the documented offering legible: the principal list focuses on Shorts, while comments and playables are exposed as their own resources. The repository does not claim to be an official YouTube preference or platform setting.
Maintenance has also changed hands. The current maintainer, identified on GitHub as i5heu, says the project's original creator, gijsdev, had been absent for roughly half a year. The repository was then taken over so that the filters could continue to be maintained. That history matters for users who depend on frequently updated page-filtering rules: the project is being presented as an actively tended community resource, not merely an archived configuration.
The repository makes clear that the initiative is independent. It says the project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or associated with Alphabet, Google or YouTube. Users are therefore relying on a third-party list and its maintainers, rather than a control supplied by the video service itself.
For people seeking a YouTube view without the platform's short-form section, the project offers a relatively direct, extension-based option. Its scope is narrow and its setup is manual: install or already use uBlock Origin, then subscribe to or import the relevant raw filters. The separate URLs give users some choice over which elements they add. The repository remains the central place for installation details and maintenance information, as well as the clearest statement of the project's independence and intended purpose.
