Seamlessly play YouTube Shorts with the normal desktop interface

Latest Version

Version

1.17.0

Update

September 9, 2024

Size

28.39KiB

Developer

Shorts Deflector Extension

Why does clicking on a YouTube Short on a desktop bring up the mobile-optimized interface? With no video scrubbing, harder to access comments, less accessible view count, and more, it makes no sense to use on a desktop.

Shorts Deflector is an extension that allows you to seamlessly watch YouTube Shorts with the normal desktop interface. By using several techniques, this extension is super fast; you will barely notice the switch to the desktop viewer. Install now and try it out for yourself!

Upon install, the \"Read your browsing history\" permission may seem alarming, but this permission is only used to detect page updates.

Open source at https://github.com/evenevan/shorts-deflector

Read more at https://evenevan.github.io/shorts-deflector

Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

k (ID: 00000073ed74d8b9) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/04/2023 Every time I watched a SHORT video, "The sound is loud ！！！！" I was tormented by this, so I was saved. Thank you.

Owen Ganson (ID: 00000065cf47f84f) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 08/30/2023 Will update when fixed

Will Ashley (ID: 0000006aa89da355) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 08/21/2023 literally doesn't work. just triggers and infinite reloading loop

Nic (ID: 0000008e07c44376) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/15/2023 thank you! :3

Will Ashley (ID: 0000007e0c9ca97f) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 06/09/2023 Stopped working. Tried clicking on the google doodle today which links to a short, and it just triggers an infinite loading loop.

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Shorts Deflector