I keep Control Panel for YouTube [1] up to date with the latest YouTube shenanigans. Most recently: restoring the Related sidebar layout with the giant thumbs, if you're not hiding them.

Shorts are hidden and redirected if you land on one externally by default, and it _was_ also restoring the sort by Upload date filter UI, until YouTube went and killed that in the API ;_;

[1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube

YouTube killing he sort by upload date made me furious.

I feel like the only fight back is boycotting.

>Remove the pink gradient from progress bars

How do I do that without an entire addon? This pink gradient irritates me so much.

If you're using Firefox you could set up a userContent.css to apply the necessary CSS overrides to youtube.com, otherwise you'd need an extension to do that.