Privacy Policy — No Shorts for YouTube

Last updated: 12 August 2026

No Shorts for YouTube does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal or usage data. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, and no account or sign-in of any kind.

What the extension stores

The only data it stores is your four on/off preferences — whether to hide Shorts in the feed, in search results, in navigation, and whether to redirect Shorts links. These are saved with Chrome's storage.sync API, which keeps them in your own Chrome profile and, if you have Chrome Sync enabled, syncs them across your signed-in Chrome browsers via your Google account. The developer has no access to this data.

What it does on YouTube pages

• Applies a stylesheet that hides Shorts elements. This changes only how the page is displayed in your browser.
• If the redirect option is on, rewrites /shorts/<id> URLs to /watch?v=<id> so the video opens in YouTube's normal player. This navigation happens entirely within your browser.

The extension does not read your watch history, your account details, your search queries, or the content of any page, and it does not modify or inspect network traffic.

Servers and third parties

The extension makes no network requests of its own. It has no backend server. No data is shared with the developer or with any third party.

Permissions

• storage — to remember your four toggle settings between sessions.
• *://*.youtube.com/* — to apply the hiding stylesheet on YouTube pages. The extension runs on no other site.

Removing your data

Uninstalling the extension removes its stored settings from your browser. No copy exists anywhere else.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new date above. Questions can be sent to noshorts.extension@gmail.com.

This extension is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC or YouTube.