The method for preventing users from seeing or watching YouTube Shorts depends on the platform you use to filter devices.
Cloud portal
You can’t prevent YouTube Shorts from being accessible when using the Agents and Extensions unless you block all of YouTube. Follow the instructions below to have only the first video load to prevent auto-scrolling.
- Add these URLs to a Custom Category:
- http://youtube.com/shorts
- http://youtube.com/youtubei/v1/reel/
- Add a Web Filter Policy using your Custom Category to block these URLs.