attituding / shorts-deflector

Shorts Deflector is a Chromium and Firefox browser extension that lets you seamlessly play YouTube Shorts with the normal desktop interface

Introduction

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.

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

Home Page

https://attituding.github.io/shorts-deflector/

Install

Contribution

Want to help improve this extension?

1. Fork this project
2. Make your changes and commit/push to your fork
3. Build
4. Test out your changes
5. Make a pull request

Build

Prerequisites (available via cli):

• Version of Node.js >= v18 w/ NPM
• Powershell
• 7zip

Steps:

1. Open terminal with this directory
2. Run "npm i"
3. Run "npm run build"
4. Output zips will appear in /dist folder

Develop

Firefox

Use

npm run firefox