How to Disable YouTube Shorts with UNDOOMED

You open YouTube to watch a specific tutorial video. A Shorts thumbnail catches your eye in the sidebar. You tap it. Thirty-five Shorts later, you've forgotten what you originally needed to learn, and forty minutes have disappeared into the void.

This isn't a personal failing—it's the expected outcome of deliberate design. YouTube Shorts generate over 50 billion views daily, making them one of the most successful attention capture mechanisms ever created. The vertical format, autoplay, and algorithmically personalized feed combine to create a dopamine delivery system disguised as entertainment.

Here's the reality: YouTube used to be a tool for learning, entertainment, and creative expression. Shorts transformed it into another infinite scroll addiction machine optimized for watch time rather than value delivery.

But you don't have to accept this transformation. You can disable YouTube Shorts completely—removing them from your feed, hiding the Shorts tab, blocking Shorts links—while keeping the parts of YouTube that actually serve you.

Why YouTube Shorts Are Engineered for Procrastination

Understanding the specific design mechanisms that make Shorts addictive helps you recognize that your difficulty stopping isn't weakness—it's the intended outcome of sophisticated behavioral engineering.

The Vertical Format Trap

Vertical video creates a fundamentally different viewing experience than traditional horizontal YouTube videos. The format fills your entire phone screen, eliminating peripheral vision and competing stimuli. This creates tunnel vision that focuses all attention on the content.

More importantly, vertical format signals "mobile-first, casual consumption" to your brain. Horizontal videos feel like deliberate viewing choices. Vertical videos feel like scrolling social media—a low-commitment activity that doesn't require intention.

This psychological framing makes it easier to keep watching. You're not "watching videos" (which sounds like a time commitment)—you're "just scrolling" (which sounds casual and harmless).

Autoplay and the Continuation Default

YouTube Shorts autoplay by default. When one video ends, the next begins automatically within 1-2 seconds. This eliminates decision points where you might choose to stop.

Traditional YouTube required you to actively select each video. This created natural pause moments where you could evaluate whether to continue. Shorts remove this friction entirely.

The cognitive default becomes continuation rather than cessation. Stopping requires active intervention. Continuing requires nothing—it just happens.

Algorithmic Personalization at Scale

YouTube's recommendation algorithm processes enormous amounts of data to determine what will keep you watching Shorts. It analyzes:

• Which Shorts you watch completely versus skip
• How quickly you scroll past different content types
• Which Shorts you rewatch or share
• What time of day you engage most
• How your viewing patterns change based on context

This creates a feedback loop where the algorithm becomes increasingly accurate at predicting what will trigger your continued engagement. The content isn't random—it's individually optimized to activate your specific psychological triggers.

You're experiencing mass personalization. The Shorts feed you see is unique to you, designed specifically to keep you scrolling.

The 60-Second Dopamine Loop

Each Short delivers a complete narrative arc in under 60 seconds—setup, development, payoff. This creates frequent dopamine hits at a pace traditional long-form content can't match.

Your brain begins to crave these rapid-fire rewards. Longer videos start to feel tedious by comparison. You find yourself unable to watch 15-minute educational videos you used to enjoy because your attention span has been trained to expect payoff every 30 seconds.

This neurological conditioning makes Shorts progressively more appealing while making valuable long-form content feel boring—even when the long-form content is objectively more useful or enjoyable.

Endless Scroll with Zero Endpoint

Unlike a playlist or subscription feed, Shorts have no endpoint. There's no last video. The scroll is literally infinite—YouTube generates recommendations faster than you can consume them.

This design eliminates natural stopping points. With a finite list, you eventually reach the end. With infinite scroll, the only stopping mechanism is your own willpower fighting against design optimized to override that willpower.

You're not competing on equal terms. You're using human self-control against machine-optimized behavioral manipulation.

UNDOOMED Solutions: How to Completely Block YouTube Shorts

UNDOOMED provides comprehensive filtering options to disable YouTube Shorts and restore YouTube to a tool for intentional viewing rather than mindless consumption.

Hide Shorts Filter: Complete Shorts Removal

The Hide Shorts filter completely removes the Shorts feature from YouTube across all interfaces.

What Gets Blocked:

• Shorts tab disappears from YouTube's bottom navigation (mobile) and left sidebar (desktop)
• All Shorts shelves are hidden from your home feed, search results, and channel pages
• Shorts links (/shorts/ URLs) are blocked—clicking any Shorts link prevents it from loading
• Shorts suggestions in the sidebar and end-of-video recommendations are removed
• Shorts carousels that appear between regular videos are completely hidden

Technical Implementation:

UNDOOMED uses the data-uy-hide-shorts attribute system for conditional CSS rendering:

1. When Hide Shorts activates, UNDOOMED adds data-uy-hide-shorts="true" to YouTube's root element
2. CSS rules hide all elements with Shorts-specific selectors when this attribute is present
3. JavaScript intercepts navigation to /shorts/ URLs and blocks them before loading
4. MutationObserver continuously monitors for dynamically loaded Shorts content and hides it in real-time

This approach ensures Shorts remain hidden even as YouTube updates its interface or loads new content dynamically through infinite scroll.

When to Use It:

Activate Hide Shorts if you find yourself falling into Shorts rabbit holes when you intended to watch specific videos or learn something particular. This is the foundational filter for anyone who recognizes that Shorts add no value to their YouTube experience.

Hide Home Feed: Eliminate Algorithmic Recommendations

The Hide Home Feed filter removes YouTube's homepage entirely, redirecting you to your Subscriptions page instead.

What This Changes:

• Opening YouTube takes you directly to /feed/subscriptions instead of the algorithmic homepage
• Removes the entire recommendation engine from your default experience
• Eliminates suggested videos, trending content, and algorithmic picks
• Forces intentional viewing of channels you deliberately subscribed to

Why This Matters:

YouTube's homepage is designed to maximize watch time, not deliver value. The algorithm prioritizes content that keeps you watching, which often means sensationalized thumbnails, clickbait titles, and content optimized for engagement rather than quality.

The Subscriptions feed shows chronological content from channels you chose to follow—a fundamentally different experience based on your intentional decisions rather than algorithmic manipulation.

Combined with Hide Shorts:

When you activate both Hide Home Feed and Hide Shorts together, YouTube transforms into a tool for intentional consumption. You arrive at a chronological list of content from creators you deliberately selected, with all Shorts content removed.

This combination eliminates both algorithmic manipulation (Homepage) and format-based addiction (Shorts).

Hide Suggestions: Remove Sidebar Recommendations

The Hide Suggestions filter removes all suggested videos from the sidebar and end-of-video recommendations.

What Gets Hidden:

• Sidebar recommendations while watching videos disappear completely
• End-of-video suggestions (the autoplay countdown and grid of recommendations) are removed
• "Up next" autoplay is disabled

Why This Is Powerful:

The suggestion sidebar is where rabbit holes begin. You watch one video, then the algorithm suggests increasingly engaging content designed to keep you on the platform. Three hours later, you've watched videos you never intended to see on topics you didn't care about.

Removing suggestions creates natural stopping points. When your video ends, there's no "Up next" autoplay pulling you into another video. You must actively search for or select your next video.

This restores agency. You watch what you choose, not what the algorithm chooses for you.

Hide Comments: Eliminate Controversy and Distraction

The Hide Comments filter removes the entire comment section from YouTube videos.

What Disappears:

• All comment sections below videos
• Comment counts and engagement metrics
• Replies and comment threads

Why Comments Matter for Focus:

YouTube comments often contain controversial opinions, arguments, and negativity that trigger emotional responses and extend your time on the platform. You came to watch a video about woodworking, but now you're reading heated arguments about lumber prices and getting emotionally involved.

Comments also create engagement loops. You read a comment, feel compelled to reply, check back for responses to your reply, then respond again. These loops keep you on YouTube far longer than the actual video content.

When to Use It:

Activate Hide Comments if you find yourself reading comment sections even when they add no value, or if comments frequently trigger negative emotions that affect your mood after closing YouTube.

Hide Thumbnails: Text-Only Mode for Reduced Visual Triggers

The Hide Thumbnails filter removes all video thumbnails from YouTube, displaying only text titles and channel names.

What Gets Removed:

• All video preview thumbnails throughout YouTube
• Channel avatar images
• Visual preview elements

What Remains:

• Video titles (text)
• Channel names (text)
• Upload dates
• View counts

Why This Is Surprisingly Effective:

YouTube thumbnails are engineered to trigger clicks. They use bright colors, exaggerated facial expressions, bold text overlays, and psychological triggers designed to capture attention and generate curiosity gaps.

By removing thumbnails entirely, you eliminate the primary visual manipulation mechanism. You see only titles and channel names, forcing you to evaluate videos based on content description rather than emotional visual triggers.

This text-only mode reduces impulse clicking by approximately 60-70% according to user reports. You watch what you deliberately choose based on rational evaluation, not what caught your eye with a provocative thumbnail.

When to Use It:

Activate Hide Thumbnails if you find yourself clicking videos based on compelling thumbnails rather than actual interest, or if you struggle with impulse viewing of suggested content.

Fair Warning:

Text-only mode takes adjustment. The first few days feel strange without visual previews. But most users report that within a week, they prefer the reduced visual noise and appreciate making decisions based on content rather than manipulation.

Alternative Solutions and Why UNDOOMED Is Superior

Several alternative methods exist for blocking YouTube Shorts, each with significant limitations compared to UNDOOMED's approach.

Unhook Extension: Desktop Chrome/Firefox Only

The Unhook browser extension provides comprehensive YouTube filtering for desktop browsers, including Shorts blocking, recommendation hiding, and autoplay disabling.

Limitations:

• Desktop only—Unhook doesn't work on mobile devices where most YouTube consumption happens
• Browser-specific—requires separate installation on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.
• No mobile app—you can't block Shorts on iPhone or Android YouTube apps
• No cross-device sync—settings don't transfer between browsers or devices

UNDOOMED Advantage:

Works identically on iOS and Android phones, where you actually watch YouTube Shorts. Single configuration applies across all sessions. Mobile-first design addresses the primary addiction vector (phone-based scrolling).

YouTube Premium: Paid Service with Minimal Control

YouTube Premium removes ads but provides almost no filtering or blocking capabilities for Shorts or recommendations.

What Premium Doesn't Do:

• Doesn't block or hide Shorts
• Doesn't remove algorithmic homepage
• Doesn't disable recommendations
• Doesn't provide usage limits or tracking

Premium addresses the wrong problem. Most users struggle with time consumption and attention hijacking, not advertisements. Paying $14/month to remove ads while keeping all addiction mechanisms is economically inefficient.

UNDOOMED Advantage:

Addresses the actual problem (attention capture and time waste) rather than the surface-level symptom (advertisements). Provides surgical control over specific addictive features.

NewPipe: Open-Source YouTube Alternative

NewPipe is an open-source Android app that provides an alternative YouTube interface without Google integration, including no Shorts section.

Limitations:

• Android only—no iOS version exists
• No account integration—can't access your subscriptions, history, or recommendations
• Technical setup required—must install from F-Droid, not Google Play Store
• Regular breaking—Google API changes frequently break NewPipe functionality
• Limited features—missing many standard YouTube capabilities

UNDOOMED Advantage:

Works with your actual YouTube account and all standard features, just with selective blocking of addictive elements. Full iOS and Android support. Installs through official app stores. Maintained specifically for wellbeing filtering.

Built-In YouTube "Don't Recommend" Feature

YouTube allows you to select "Don't recommend channel" or "Not interested" on Shorts and videos.

Why This Doesn't Work:

• Shorts tab still exists and beckons every time you open YouTube
• "Don't recommend" signals are often ignored by the algorithm
• Requires constant vigilance to mark every unwanted Short
• Does nothing to prevent the impulse to check the Shorts tab
• YouTube's business model depends on Shorts engagement—they won't truly remove them

UNDOOMED Advantage:

Removes Shorts from the interface entirely rather than relying on YouTube to honor your preferences. The temptation disappears instead of requiring constant resistance.

Desktop vs Mobile: Different Challenges

YouTube consumption patterns differ significantly between desktop and mobile devices, requiring different blocking strategies.

Mobile: The Primary Addiction Vector

Mobile devices account for approximately 70% of YouTube watch time, with Shorts consumption even more heavily skewed toward mobile.

Why Mobile Is More Addictive:

• Vertical format optimized for phone screens
• Always accessible in your pocket
• Designed for thumb-scrolling
• Integrates with boredom responses throughout your day
• No keyboard barrier to continuous scrolling

UNDOOMED's Mobile Focus:

UNDOOMED was built mobile-first specifically because that's where the addiction problem is most severe. The in-app browser provides full YouTube functionality with all filtering capabilities on both iOS and Android.

Desktop: More Intentional, Less Compulsive

Desktop YouTube usage tends to be more intentional—you sit down at a computer for a reason, often with a specific video or channel in mind.

Desktop Advantages:

• Physical location creates natural session boundaries
• Keyboard and mouse create more friction than touch scrolling
• Larger screen makes multitasking easier (you can watch while working)
• Less associated with boredom filling

Desktop Solutions:

For desktop-only blocking, browser extensions like Unhook work excellently. But most users need mobile protection more urgently.

Multi-Platform Strategy:

Ideal approach: Use UNDOOMED for mobile YouTube (where the addiction is worst) and Unhook extension for desktop (for consistent filtering across devices).

Step-by-Step Guide: Block YouTube Shorts with UNDOOMED

Here's exactly how to set up YouTube Shorts blocking using UNDOOMED, from quick activation through advanced configuration.

Quick Setup: Hide Shorts in 60 Seconds

Step 1: Download and Open UNDOOMED

• Install UNDOOMED from App Store (iOS) or Google Play Store (Android)
• Open the application
• Complete initial setup

Step 2: Add YouTube

• Tap Networks tab in bottom navigation
• Select YouTube from the supported platforms list
• YouTube opens in UNDOOMED's in-app browser
• Log in to your YouTube account (or use without logging in)

Step 3: Activate Hide Shorts via Overlay Menu

• While viewing YouTube, locate the triangle button (Overlay Menu) on your screen
• Tap the triangle to open the quick menu
• Find Hide Shorts in the filters list
• Toggle it ON
• Shorts disappear immediately from all YouTube interfaces

Done. YouTube now functions without Shorts. The tab is gone, Shorts shelves are hidden, and /shorts/ links are blocked.

Advanced Focus Setup: Comprehensive Distraction Removal

For maximum control and productivity, configure multiple filters simultaneously using UNDOOMED's Focus system.

Step 1: Access Focus Configuration

• Open UNDOOMED
• Tap Focus tab in bottom navigation
• Tap Filters
• Scroll to YouTube section

Step 2: Activate Multiple Filters for Distraction-Free YouTube

For students, professionals, or anyone needing YouTube as a learning tool without rabbit holes:

Activate these filters:

• Hide Shorts (removes all Shorts content)
• Hide Comments (eliminates comment section distraction and negativity)
• Hide Suggestions (removes sidebar recommendations and autoplay)
• Hide Thumbnails (optional—creates text-only mode for reduced visual triggers)

This combination transforms YouTube into a search-and-watch tool. You find the video you need, watch it without distractions, and move on with your day.

Step 3: Set Daily Time Limits

• Return to Focus main screen
• Tap Limits
• Select YouTube
• Set appropriate daily limit:
  • 1 hour/day for casual learning
  • 2 hours/day if YouTube is essential for work/study
  • 30 minutes/day if you're trying to break severe addiction
• Enable Strict Mode to prevent limit extensions

When you reach your limit, UNDOOMED blocks YouTube access completely until the next day, providing a hard boundary that protects you from marathon viewing sessions.

Step 4: Enable Protection Lock

• Within Focus screen, tap Protection
• Set a PIN code you'll remember but requires deliberate entry
• This prevents:
  • Deactivating filters during moments of weakness
  • Extending or removing time limits impulsively
  • Uninstalling UNDOOMED without conscious decision

The PIN creates friction between impulse and action, giving your rational mind time to override the craving.

Multi-Account Configuration: Different Filters per Usage Context

Many users need YouTube for different purposes—personal entertainment, professional research, educational content. UNDOOMED's multi-account system allows different filter configurations for different contexts.

Setup Example:

Instance 1 - Personal Account (Strict Filters):

• Hide Shorts: ON
• Hide Comments: ON
• Hide Suggestions: ON
• Hide Home Feed: ON
• Daily limit: 30 minutes
• Protection: PIN locked

Instance 2 - Work/Research Account (Light Filters):

• Hide Shorts: ON
• Hide Comments: ON
• Hide Suggestions: OFF (need to discover relevant channels)
• Hide Home Feed: OFF
• Daily limit: 2 hours
• Protection: No lock (need flexibility for work)

How to Set Up Multiple Instances:

1. In Networks tab, add YouTube
2. Tap the duplicate icon to create a second instance
3. Configure different filters for each instance
4. Use Cookie Group 1 for personal account
5. Use Cookie Group 2 for work account
6. Switch between instances based on your current need

This prevents you from needing to compromise—you can have strict personal filtering while maintaining flexibility for professional use.

Real Results: What Changes After Blocking Shorts

Understanding realistic outcomes helps set appropriate expectations and measure success.

Immediate Impact (First Week)

Rabbit Hole Prevention:

The most immediate and noticeable change is the complete elimination of Shorts rabbit holes. You'll no longer experience the phenomenon of opening YouTube for a specific video and ending up 45 minutes deep in Shorts.

This single change typically saves 30-90 minutes daily for heavy Shorts users.

Intentional Viewing:

Without Shorts or homepage recommendations (if you've activated Hide Home Feed), every video you watch becomes a conscious choice. You open YouTube with purpose, search for or select specific content, watch it, then close YouTube.

This intentionality fundamentally changes your relationship with the platform.

Session Length Reduction:

YouTube sessions shrink dramatically. Instead of 30-60 minute sessions mixing intended videos with Shorts rabbit holes, sessions become 5-15 minutes of focused viewing.

Increased Boredom Awareness:

You'll notice how often you reach for YouTube as a boredom response. When you open the app and there are no Shorts to scroll, you become aware of the impulse that drove you there. This awareness itself is valuable—it's the first step toward changing the underlying habit.

Short-Term Adaptation (Weeks 2-4)

Time Recovery:

Users typically report recovering 30-50% of their previous YouTube time within the first month. If you were spending 2 hours daily on YouTube, expect to drop to 60-90 minutes with Shorts blocking alone.

Combined with Hide Suggestions and Hide Home Feed, reductions can reach 60-70%.

Reduced Impulse Checking:

The frequency of checking YouTube decreases naturally. When you know there's no Shorts feed to scroll, the impulse to check weakens. Your brain learns there's no quick dopamine hit available, so the craving fades.

Improved Focus:

Many users report improved ability to focus on long-form content. When your attention span hasn't been fragmented by rapid-fire Shorts, you can actually watch and absorb 15-30 minute educational videos or documentaries.

Your cognitive endurance for sustained attention improves when you stop training it to expect payoff every 30 seconds.

Withdrawal Symptoms Fade:

Initial discomfort and FOMO typically vanish by week 3-4. You stop missing Shorts because you've lost the habit of expecting them.

Long-Term Changes (Month 2+)

Sustained Time Savings:

Time reductions remain stable long-term. This isn't a temporary willpower-based change that regresses—it's a structural change that persists because the temptation is permanently removed rather than constantly resisted.

Improved Content Quality:

When you're not comparing every video to the hyper-stimulation of Shorts, you appreciate slower-paced, higher-quality educational content. Videos that previously felt boring become engaging again when your dopamine baseline normalizes.

Better Learning Outcomes:

Students and professionals report improved retention and comprehension from educational YouTube content. Without the distraction of Shorts and sidebar recommendations, you can actually learn from tutorials rather than just consuming them passively.

Platform Relationship Transformation:

YouTube transforms from an entertainment/time-waste platform back into a tool. You use it for specific purposes—learning, specific entertainment, music, podcasts—rather than as a default boredom solution.

Real User Examples

Alex, 24, Software Developer:

"I blocked Shorts and the homepage together. YouTube went from my biggest procrastination tool to my most valuable learning resource. I watch programming tutorials, tech talks, and specific channels I care about. No more waking up to find I watched random Shorts until 2 AM. My GitHub contributions went up noticeably."

Maria, 19, University Student:

"During exam prep, I enabled Hide Shorts, Hide Comments, Hide Suggestions, and a 1-hour daily limit with PIN lock. YouTube became study-only. I could watch lecture recordings and tutorials without falling into rabbit holes. My screen time analytics showed I cut YouTube from 3.5 hours to 45 minutes daily."

David, 42, Marketing Director:

"I need YouTube for market research and competitor analysis, but Shorts were killing my productivity. I created two UNDOOMED instances—one for work with Shorts blocked, one for personal with full blocks including homepage. Work account has no limit, personal has 30 minutes. Completely separated professional utility from personal time-waste."

Advanced Use Cases: Who Benefits Most from Blocking Shorts

Different user groups experience different benefits from YouTube Shorts blocking, depending on their specific usage patterns and goals.

Students: Reclaiming Study Time

Students face unique challenges with YouTube—they legitimately need it for educational content, but Shorts and recommendations constantly derail studying.

Optimal Configuration for Students:

• Hide Shorts (removes primary distraction)
• Hide Comments (eliminates comment section procrastination)
• Hide Suggestions (prevents rabbit holes after educational videos)
• Keep Home Feed visible but set strict daily limits (1-2 hours)
• PIN-protected during exam periods

Results:

Students typically report 40-60% YouTube time reduction while maintaining access to all educational content. The ability to watch a tutorial without falling into a Shorts spiral is transformational for productivity.

Exam Period Strategy:

During exams, many students switch to maximum restrictions:

• All filters activated
• Daily limit: 1 hour
• PIN code they give to a friend (can't disable without asking)
• Reactivate full access after exams end

Professionals: YouTube as Research Tool

Professionals who need YouTube for industry research, training, or competitive analysis benefit from selective blocking that preserves utility while eliminating time waste.

Optimal Configuration for Professionals:

• Hide Shorts (removes casual consumption temptation)
• Hide Comments (often irrelevant for professional content)
• Keep Suggestions visible (useful for discovering relevant channels)
• Keep Home Feed visible (trending industry content has value)
• Moderate daily limits (2-3 hours)
• No PIN lock (need flexibility)

Multi-Account Strategy:

Create separate instances for professional and personal use:

• Professional instance: Light filtering, higher limits
• Personal instance: Heavy filtering, strict limits

This prevents professional needs from justifying personal time waste.

Parents: Protecting Children While Maintaining Educational Access

Parents want their children to access educational YouTube content while blocking the addictive Shorts that waste hours and expose kids to inappropriate content.

Parental Control Configuration:

• Install UNDOOMED on child's device
• Activate Hide Shorts (primary protection)
• Activate Hide Comments (protects from inappropriate comment content)
• Activate Hide Suggestions (prevents recommendation rabbit holes)
• Set age-appropriate daily limits (30-60 minutes)
• PIN-protect all settings using a code only parent knows

Why This Works Better Than YouTube Kids:

YouTube Kids is limited to pre-approved content, which excludes valuable educational channels. UNDOOMED filtering allows full YouTube access with selective blocking of addictive features.

Children can watch science channels, how-to videos, educational content, and age-appropriate entertainment without exposure to the Shorts infinite scroll that creates compulsive usage.

Communication Approach:

Frame this as protection rather than punishment:

"We're keeping Shorts blocked so YouTube stays a learning tool instead of becoming addictive. You can watch any videos you want, but the scrolling Shorts section isn't available because it's designed to waste time."

This teaches children about intentional technology use rather than creating forbidden fruit dynamics.

Content Creators: Consuming Without Creating Temptation

YouTube content creators face a unique challenge—they need to use YouTube for uploading, analytics, and research, but easy access creates consumption temptation.

Creator-Specific Configuration:

• Hide Shorts on personal account
• Keep Shorts visible on creator account (need to understand the format)
• Separate instances for creating versus consuming
• Strict limits on personal instance
• No limits on creator instance (it's work, not consumption)

Workflow Separation:

Use UNDOOMED's multi-instance feature to maintain complete separation:

• Personal account: All filters active, opens to Subscriptions
• Creator account: Minimal filters, full functionality

Never browse personally on your creator account. This boundary prevents "I'm just researching" justifications for consumption.

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Take Control of Your YouTube Experience

YouTube Shorts aren't making you smarter, happier, or more productive. They're not teaching valuable skills or creating meaningful experiences. They're exploiting psychological vulnerabilities to maximize your watch time and Google's advertising revenue.

You don't have to accept this. You can disable Shorts completely while keeping YouTube's legitimate value—educational content, entertainment you choose, creators you actually care about.

UNDOOMED makes this simple. Hide Shorts filter removes all Shorts content. Hide Suggestions prevents rabbit holes. Hide Comments eliminates distraction. Advanced filters give you surgical control over exactly which features you access.

The difference between intentional YouTube use and addictive consumption is control. Taking back control starts with removing the features designed to override your control.

Download UNDOOMED. Activate Hide Shorts. Give it one week.

Notice what changes. More productive time. Better focus. Actually finishing the videos you start. Learning instead of consuming.

Your attention is valuable. Your time is limited. Your goals matter.

Stop letting YouTube Shorts steal them.

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