{"slug": "control-panel-for-youtube", "name": "Control Panel for YouTube", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 2.581, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-02-14", "latest": "2026-04-16", "why": "Control Panel for YouTube [^0] has options for that", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Control Panel for YouTube [^0] has options for that", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "soitis.dev", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Control Panel for YouTube"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 764662704, "item_id": 47791419, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791419", "by": "InMice", "date": "2026-04-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the control panel for youtube plugin", "excerpt": "I use the control panel for youtube plugin - there is an option that any short plays in the traditional player. It also has lets you customize the thumbnail grid sizes. it is a little over aggressive with its defaults but you can turn them off. it has a lot of options", "context": "", "use_case": "hide Shorts, customize YouTube UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"}, {"id": 752409168, "item_id": 47025573, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025573", "by": "DavideNL", "date": "2026-02-15", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you might also want to check out", "excerpt": "Note that you might also want to check out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel-for-youtube/", "context": "", "use_case": "customizing YouTube", "switched_from": "", "story": "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"}, {"id": 752317760, "item_id": 47019860, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019860", "by": "Phelinofist", "date": "2026-02-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "which also supports hiding shorts and much more", "excerpt": "I use the extension \"Control Panel for YouTube\" which also supports hiding shorts and much more", "context": "", "use_case": "YouTube customization", "switched_from": "", "story": "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"}, {"id": 752307440, "item_id": 47019215, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019215", "by": "insin", "date": "2026-02-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Control Panel for YouTube [1] lets you remove most of the clutter from the Shorts player UI", "excerpt": "Control Panel for YouTube [1] lets you remove most of the clutter from the Shorts player UI, or redirect Shorts to the normal player (using YouTube's internal navigation if on desktop, so no full page reload) You'll have to disable hiding them first, as they're completly hidden by default [1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube", "context": "", "use_case": "hide YouTube Shorts clutter", "switched_from": "", "story": "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"}, {"id": 735790784, "item_id": 45986924, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986924", "by": "insin", "date": "2025-11-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Control Panel for YouTube [^0] has options for that", "excerpt": "If you want to hide Shorts completely on YouTube, or make watching them a more intentional act by hijacking YouTube's navigation to make them display in the regular video player, Control Panel for YouTube [^0] has options for that, as well as for removing any other sources of algorithmic/recommended videos you don't want, including the new \"More videos\" in the new video UI (which you can also disable if you don't lik", "context": "", "use_case": "hide Shorts and recommendations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["hide shorts, customize youtube ui", "customizing youtube", "youtube customization", "hide youtube shorts clutter", "hide shorts and recommendations"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 764600800, "item_id": 47787550, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787550", "by": "insin", "date": "2026-04-15", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I added a bunch of features to Control Panel for YouTube", "excerpt": "Upvoting because Shorts are terrible. Flagging because the submission title - which is 100% faithful to the friendly article - is a complete lie! Plug: I added a bunch of features to Control Panel for YouTube [1] which let you either hide Shorts completely, everywhere (which is the default) or take more control of how you use them if you do (e.g. redirecting to the normal video player) [1] https://soitis.dev/control-", "context": "", "use_case": "Hide YouTube Shorts", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"}, {"id": 762503968, "item_id": 47656498, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656498", "by": "insin", "date": "2026-04-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the main thing I made Control Panel for YouTube [1] for", "excerpt": "This is also the way I use YouTube and is the main thing I made Control Panel for YouTube [1] for (well, that plus globally hiding Shorts and removing all the unwanted recommendations everywhere) - my Subscriptions page acts like an inbox of unwatched videos and everything else is hidden (most recently: the new \"Most relevant\" section and \"Collaborations\" videos with channels I'm not subscribed to). My Subscriptions ", "context": "", "use_case": "declutter YouTube subscriptions page", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters"}, {"id": 752304896, "item_id": 47019056, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019056", "by": "insin", "date": "2026-02-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I keep Control Panel for YouTube [1] up to date with the latest YouTube shenanigans.", "excerpt": "I keep Control Panel for YouTube [1] up to date with the latest YouTube shenanigans. Most recently: restoring the Related sidebar layout with the giant thumbs, if you're not hiding them. Shorts are hidden and redirected if you land on one externally by default, and it _was_ also restoring the sort by Upload date filter UI, until YouTube went and killed that in the API ;_; [1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-yout", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"}, {"id": 745173409, "item_id": 46573338, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573338", "by": "insin", "date": "2026-01-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've added an option to restore the Upload date filter to Control Panel for YouTube", "excerpt": "The `sp` URL parameter for sorting by upload date still works, so I've added an option to restore the Upload date filter to Control Panel for YouTube: https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/tag/v1.27.0", "context": "", "use_case": "Restore YouTube filters", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date"}, {"id": 740997585, "item_id": 46312349, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312349", "by": "insin", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm selling browser extensions on the App Store", "excerpt": "I'm selling browser extensions on the App Store, but the main money-maker is currently https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter When Twitter killed off third-party apps, the browser extension I'd been developing ever since \"New Twitter\" launched in 2019 suddenly became one of the few ways to make Twitter more tolerable to use, and the number of users of the Chrome version tripled from 30k to 90k in a fortnight (m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 \u2013 Show and tell"}, {"id": 736848192, "item_id": 46053012, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46053012", "by": "insin", "date": "2025-11-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I made Control Panel for YouTube [^0] to tackle", "excerpt": "Low _usable_ information density is one of the main things I made Control Panel for YouTube [^0] to tackle, especially in Subscriptions. On a 1080p monitor, my unmodified Subscriptions page currently has 6 fully-visible thumbnails, consisting of 3 livestreams from people I only subscribe to for videos, 1 watched video, 1 stream VOD (which I'll never watch), and 1 unwatched video, so that's a score of 1/6. 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