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i'm the same as you, but YT has started to place its content behind sign-in wall Anon usage + uBlock and VPN, is a dead man walking
> YT has started to place its content behind sign-in wall Any examples of that?
50/50 it will play, without logging in 1st
In addition to the unhook addon that others also recommended and is great, I would also suggest, as an alternative, setting a redirection rule from "www.youtube.com/shorts/XYWZ" to "www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYWZ". This will play the short but in the classical youtube video (landscape) format, with no infinite scrolling, or replay or autoplay (assuming these are in general disabled), which takes away a big part of the…
I use the rule ||youtube.com/shorts/*$uritransform=/shorts\/(.*)/watch\/\$1/` in uBlock Origin. (Except that it doesn't work if you click on a short from YouTube's interface - it loads with JavaScript which bypasses the redirection.)
``` // ==UserScript== // @name YouTube Shorts → Normal Player // @match ://www.youtube.com/ // @run-at document-start // ==/UserScript==
function redirectShorts() { const match = location.pathname.match(/^\/shorts\/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/); if (match) { location.replace(`/watch?v=${match[1]}`); } }
// Catch initial page load redirectShorts();
// Catch SPA navigation early (fires before page renders) document.addEventListener('yt-navigate-start', redirectShorts);
// Fallback document.addEventListener('yt-navigate-finish', redirectShorts); ```