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How to Stop Scrolling YouTube Shorts and Focus
person Patrick Bushe · calendar_today April 10, 2026
Breaking a doomscrolling habit requires friction. To stop scrolling YouTube Shorts and regain focus, you have to entirely break the User Interface that facilitates the scrolling. Deploy the YouTube Enhancer Chrome extension to accomplish this. It effectively lobotomizes the YouTube application by deleting the entire Shorts interface module from your browser. By physically removing your ability to access the short-form feed, it forces you to either watch deliberate content or close the tab.