Hiding YouTube Shorts on a self-hosted Invidious

Wed, 13 May 2026 14:18:11 +0100

I run Invidious on a TrueNAS SCALE box at home so my YouTube subscriptions stay free of ads, tracking, and the algorithm’s mood swings. The one thing that still ruined the feed was Shorts. Half the page was a wall of clips I had no intention of watching.

I assumed there’d be a setting. There isn’t. Upstream has three feature requests asking for one (#3920, #4457, #3541) and all three are closed as “not planned”. The TrueNAS app just wraps stock Invidious, so the app GUI offers nothing either.

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Hiding YouTube Shorts on a self-hosted Invidious