Automatically redirect from the terrible YouTube Shorts viewer to the normal viewer.
// ==UserScript==
// @name YouTube Shorts-Be-Gone
// @namespace https://www.soltoder.com/
// @version 2.0
// @description Automatically redirect from the terrible YouTube Shorts viewer to the normal viewer.
// @author AjaxGb
// @match *.youtube.com/*
// @icon https://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico
// @run-at document-start
// @license MIT-0
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
function isShorts(url) {
return url.pathname.startsWith('/shorts/');
}
function redirectToNormal(shortsUrl) {
const url = new URL(shortsUrl);
const videoId = url.pathname.substring('/shorts/'.length);
url.pathname = '/watch';
url.searchParams.set('v', videoId);
window.location = url;
}
window.addEventListener('yt-navigate', e => {
if (isShorts(window.location)) {
window.history.back(); // Delete the Shorts history entry
redirectToNormal(window.location);
}
});
if (isShorts(window.location)) {
// Changing window.location during initial load
// automatically overwrites the original history entry
redirectToNormal(window.location);
}
})();