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!

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/

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.

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!

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.

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

Monologue,
@Monologue@lemmy.zip avatar

youtube revanced allows you to disable it, i strongly recommend patching the app yourself

if you are interested here is the github link

gingersneak,

I can second this enthusiastically, especially since it also blocks ads and sponsored segments, customizes the UI, allows background playback, allows downloads, and more stuff too.

Monologue,
@Monologue@lemmy.zip avatar

yup it blows my mind that this is a much better experience than youtube premium not to mention you get it for free

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

yup it blows my mind that this is a much better experience than youtube premium not to mention you get it for free

Pretty much sums up all forms of piracy these days, given how bad the official media landscape became.

Monologue,
@Monologue@lemmy.zip avatar

or in some cases prices are simply outrageous, i can not afford to pay that much for a medical textbook i will just sail the high seas and repay my debt by saving lives

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

or in some cases prices are simply outrageous

Even if individual prices aren’t: no person with somewhat normal amount of income can pay for everything they’re interested in (unless the scope of interests is very narrow). Streaming services here, “Patreon exclusives” there. It adds up. I miss the time where all professional content was just on Netflix instead of spread over 30 services.

flameguy21,
@flameguy21@lemmy.world avatar

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

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.

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