---
title: "YouTube Shorts Blocker – Chrome extension stats, history and permissions"
description: "898 users, no ratings yet. Version 1.0, updated 2025-12-02. Requests 0 permissions."
url: "https://extensiontracker.com/extension/meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd"
---

# YouTube Shorts Blocker

Live in the Chrome Web Store.

- Users: 898
- Rating: no ratings yet
- Last checked: 2026-10-21 13:28 UTC
- Users gained in 7 days: No change
- Users gained in 30 days: – (needs a month of history)
- Rank by users: #26,031 of 292,131 live extensions
- Rank in Education: #760 of 12,901

## The listing

What the Chrome Web Store shows, as of the last check.

Summary from the listing:

> Blocks YouTube Shorts from appearing in feeds and prevents playback

- Extension ID: `meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd`
- Developer: [Iain](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u398cd2451abbbc3fd23eb6bfde9bc3e4)
- Enhanced Safe Browsing: Trusted ([what this means](https://extensiontracker.com/enhanced-safe-browsing))
- Category: [Productivity › Education](https://extensiontracker.com/category/productivity/education)
- First published: 2025-12-02
- Last updated: 2025-12-02
- Version: `1.0`
- Size: 6.29 KiB
- Minimum Chrome: 88
- Languages (1): English (United States)
- Privacy policy: `https://docs.google.com/document/d/187JtfsdSatFjXK6245n0hopkWptsPe0ac2OXPXNQc0E/edit?usp=sharing`
- Chrome Web Store: <https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-shorts-blocker/meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd>
- View its code or download CRX: <https://crxpeek.com/extension/meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd>
- Search Google for the ID: <https://www.google.com/search?q=%22meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd%22&tbs=li:1>

## Users over time

One row per check, newest first, as shown on the Chrome Web Store.

| Checked | Users | Rating | Ratings |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-10-21 | 898 | – | – |
| 2026-09-27 | – | – | – |

## What changed

Every change found on a check, newest first.

No changes found since tracking began on 2026-09-27.

## Developer history

Moves to another publisher account and new contact emails, newest first.

No move to another account and no new contact email since tracking began on 2026-09-27.

We know contact emails only by a keyed hash, so they're never shown. Recent changes: [Account and contact changes](https://extensiontracker.com/owners/).

## What it can access

From the extension's manifest, in plain language.

### Sites where it runs scripts

- `*://*.youtube.com/*`: youtube.com and its subdomains

## More from this developer

Other extensions from the same publisher account.

| Extension | Users | Rating | Ratings | Category |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| [Google Search Game Blocker](https://extensiontracker.com/extension/fklhanfclmmfnlnkhfnhalepommggfid) | 50,000 | 1.44 | 18 | Education |
| [Disable Google AI Search](https://extensiontracker.com/extension/lppngcmokkichbfmolibgihhppkfbeaj) | 956 | – | – | Education |
| [YouTube Blocker](https://extensiontracker.com/extension/jmenlkgeedkjadobciaoppbfhamjhkjh) | – | – | – | Education |

All 4 extensions by [Iain](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u398cd2451abbbc3fd23eb6bfde9bc3e4).

## About this data

Collected from the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing. It's checked every month, and again whenever a new version appears. Last checked 2026-10-21 13:28 UTC; next check around 2026-11-22.

How the data is collected: <https://extensiontracker.com/methodology>.

## Cite this page

Extension Tracker. “YouTube Shorts Blocker” (meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd). Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-10-21. https://extensiontracker.com/extension/meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd. Accessed 2026-11-13.

```bibtex
@misc{extensiontracker_meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd,
  title   = {YouTube Shorts Blocker (meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd)},
  author  = {{Extension Tracker}},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-10-21},
  url     = {https://extensiontracker.com/extension/meelmdanaciklceigaeganllfceccahd},
  urldate = {2026-11-13}
}
```

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