YouTube Shorts - for those of us who don't want TikTok

YouTube Shorts - You’re mildly infuriating!

Ever since I was forced to update YouTube on my devices, I got really annoyed with YouTube Shorts. At first, they were easily turned off. Then the option to turn them off disappeared from Settings - General. So I installed apps that allowed to skip out on Shorts. Then just a few days ago I could no longer have Youtube Vanced installed.

I’ve since learned do deal with this annoyance, but do I really have to mark “Not Interested” from channels I don’t subscribe to or “Hide” from my subscribed channels? On my Linux- and Windows PC’s I have regular blockers. But I mainly watch content on devices hooked up as small entertainment screens in the kitchen, bathroom and bedrooms. And those are iOS or Android.

All I want are steady streams of content from my favourite relaxing subjects and channels. Without shorts or AI-derived “Hey, this video from a channel featuring a redneck with 15 AR-15’s shooting coyotes in the desert might be your thing!” inserted into my playlists or streams. But the AI-derived autoplay content is beside the point.

YouTube Shorts - You’re mildly infuriating!

Willifire,

I don’t mind shorts but their recommendations are somehow even worse that regular yt recommendations. And those are already dogshit…

thomas_shone,
@thomas_shone@fosstodon.org avatar

@Regna I ended up running Youtube in Firefox on my mobile device. That way I get to keep all the adblocking abilities as well.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

In case someone likes the content of YT shorts but can’t stand the web player: greasyfork.org/…/439993-youtube-shorts-redirect

Turns shorts into “normal” videos. Still the same orientation but at least a player that doesn’t loop and even applies SponsorBlock rules if there are any.

Waker, (edited )

I do actually find some interesting shorts every now and then after avoiding them for years. However it completely fucks up my recommendations and you can’t remove them from the watch list as easily…

So if I watch a couple I’ll be suggested shorts for a week or so…

saplyng,
@saplyng@kbin.social avatar

Revanced Manager has a patch option to hide shorts from the feed, it's not much but it is something!

Cevilia,
@Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

On mobile, I use NewPipe X SponsorBlock which is a fork of NewPipe. Amongst other things, it lets you completely hide shorts. :)

rideranton,
@rideranton@kbin.social avatar

YouTube Revanced is a replacement for the Vanced app that is less likely to get taken down since it doesn't distribute YouTube assets

https://web.archive.org/web/20230616120327/https://old.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/

50gp,

creators cutting 16:9 videos to the worst possible format (phone vertical) ugh

dmtalon,

Ya, let’s keep shortening everyone’s attention span… Hate all short form videos!

throws_lemy,
@throws_lemy@lemmy.nz avatar

I don’t watch tiktok and I don’t want youtube shorts either, they are all equally stupid.

I watch youtube on android phone with NewPipe. On desktop I use Firefox+uBlock Origin with this filter sets

letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts

flameguy21,
@flameguy21@lemmy.world avatar

The more they shove these down my throat the less I want to watch them

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