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!

trambe,
@trambe@lemmy.world avatar

Ya agreed, I wish YouTube would’ve just pushed it as another app instead of forcing it down the main YouTube users throats.

Like, I don’t even mind short tiktok like videos, but yeah I don’t go on youtube for that

at_an_angle,
@at_an_angle@lemmy.one avatar

I go to YouTube to watch 2 hour long documentaries on subjects I don’t even care about, twitch steam uploads or 30 minute videos from my dubbed channels.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I just watched a one hour video about a fridge, so I know what you mean lol

TSG_Asmodeus,
@TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world avatar

There’s a firefox addon called ’ Hide Youtube-Shorts’ and now I just never see them.

FlipsWhitefudge,

Hide Youtube-Shorts

Thank you for this! I can’t stand the shorts in my subscription feed.

Greenskye,

This. I’m happy with these content offerings, but it’s weird to have them all mashed together. It’d be like if Lemmy randomly inserted book chapters in between other posts. It just doesn’t fit with the platform and the use cases are wildly different.

radix,
@radix@lemmy.world avatar

Also infuriating: With how much YT is incentivizing creators to create shorts, a bunch of channels I follow no longer even make regular 10-15 minute content regularly.

Roundcat,
@Roundcat@kbin.social avatar

And I no longer follow them.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Yeah, this is the worst. The whole reason I use YouTube is for long-form content.

flameguy21,
@flameguy21@lemmy.world avatar

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

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

scarabic,

Be reasonable. All sites must have Stories, and they must have Short Vertical Videos. They must. Surely you can see the necessity of that.

AlbyEvent,

Try ReVanced it doesn’t have the shorts button, and you can remove shorts from your home feed.

50gp,

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

Willifire,

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

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. :)

fing3r,

The most annoying thing about Shorts is that they appear right along the regular videos in /subscriptions

labguy20,

I was thinking of making some Shorts for students, especially since attention spans seem to be getting shorter and shorter. This article was inspirational. chemedx.org/…/how-use-tiktok-and-youtube-shorts-y…

Regna,
@Regna@lemmy.world avatar

There is one thing about it being voluntary to create. But they’re pushing YT Shorts down both content creators and viewers throats.

As a former teacher and mentor, I agree with the thought to make content more interesting and digestible for the younger generation. What I don’t agree with is packaging everything into mindless kick-rewarding (dopamine hitting) bits, like Candy Crush, One armed bandits or Tik Tok videos.

If you package too much study content into this kind of easily digestible and forgettable bits, you have to remember: it flows out from their minds almost as fast as they spent the effort to see it… maybe it lasted longer if they shared it with their friends/network, but the lesson you wanted them to absorb will mostly disappear faster than the time it took you to create it.

We work (and should work) to create (at least some) lasting impressions that educate. The most memorable moment that one of my study groups had with one of their “cool TikTok and Fortnite savvy” teachers was when they did candy flossing after it stopped being cool. What lessons he taught? They couldn’t remember if it was English or Math.

Sorry for my rant. I digressed.

labguy20,

I love the rant. Titrating (pardon the pun) content to kids and having them engage properly is such a big battle.

dmtalon,

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

BearPear,
@BearPear@lemmy.world avatar

I hate shorts so much that I don’t even have YouTube installed on my phone. I use libretube and newpipe on my phone. The crazy thing is YouTube of pushing shorts on desktop as well.

octt,
@octt@feddit.it avatar

On mobile you can use extensions like uBlock Origin (content blocker) or Stylus (CSS injector) if you use some specific browsers, and use youtube.com in those: Firefox, Yandex Browser (ugh I know), or Kiwi Browser (Android-only). It’s a mess, I know, but it’s a solution.

Regna,
@Regna@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks. It’s helpful, uBlock Origin etc didn’t do much on my mobile devices, but I haven’t looked into Firefox or the other ones for the mobile devices.

Silviecat44,

I like some YT shorts once in a while to mix it up

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