Hey everyone! 👋 So I've been trying to spend less time on social media for a while now. I deleted Instagram, Twitter, and the YouTube app from my iPhone. Kept Reddit on desktop only. But YouTube was a bit tricky because I actually enjoy watching videos, so I kept using it through Safari. Of course I ended up watching Shorts there instead lol. So I made a tiny userscript that completely removes Shorts. And surprisingly it worked really well. I don't even try opening Shorts anymore. Sometimes friends send me Shorts links, they don't open, and I just move on haha. But apparently my brain found another way. I started watching random YouTube videos for hours instead. Sometimes I'd realize it's 2am and I'm still watching stuff I don't even care about. So I built another script that limits daily watch time. Mine is set to 1 hour. Once that hour is gone, videos stop playing until tomorrow. You can also see how much time you've spent on each video. I made it so you can't increase today's limit after you've started watching, because I know exactly what I'd do otherwise lol. Both scripts are free and open source. No accounts, subscriptions or tracking services. Just something I built because I genuinely needed it. Seeing a few people already using the original on GitHub and Greasy Fork made me really happy, so I wanted to share this version too. It's been working great for me so far. Would love to hear what you think, or if there's anything you'd improve!

NoShorts

Block YouTube Shorts and set a daily watch-time limit

Block YouTube Shorts and set a daily watch-time limit