Short Story Content Blocker
Coming SoonNo more Shorts, Reels, or TikTok rabbit holes in Safari
You opened YouTube to watch one tutorial. Forty minutes later you surface from a Shorts spiral, wondering where the evening went. Short-form feeds are engineered to be irresistible — willpower is a terrible ad blocker.
Short Story removes the temptation at the source. In Safari, the Shorts shelf, the Reels tab, and every short-form thumbnail simply aren’t there — pages reflow as if shorts never existed. TikTok, which is short-form all the way down, gets a calm block screen with a way back. And there’s deliberately no snooze button: seeing shorts again means a trip into Safari’s settings — possible, but never accidental.
Everything runs on your device. No accounts, no analytics, no networking code at all — and the extension only ever touches the four sites it works on. A quiet counter keeps track of how many shorts it’s blocked for you. Works in Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Features
- Hides Shorts everywhere on YouTube — shelf, sidebar, search, and suggestions
- Removes Reels from Instagram and Facebook — pages reflow as if they never existed
- Blocks TikTok entirely — a calm block screen with a way back
- No snooze, no "just 5 minutes" — turning it off takes a deliberate trip into Settings
- Long-form stays untouched — regular videos, posts, and search work as normal
- Zero data collection — no accounts, no analytics, no networking code at all