YouTube Shorts - for those of us who don't want TikTok (lemmy.world)

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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!

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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] trambe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FlipsWhitefudge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hide Youtube-Shorts

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

[-] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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@upvote.au 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not interested in that at all.

Gotta link?

[-] Mjokfox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Probably this video

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the one!

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with short videos, but why do they all need that terrible ui with no seek bar and fewer features than proper videos? I really hate how they don't have the previously watched ui on them. It makes keeping up with a creator impossible.

[-] fing3r@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BearPear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Monologue@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

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

if you are interested here is the github link

[-] gingersneak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] couragethebravedog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What about revanced ?

[-] SouthernCross@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Revanced is the shit. Everyone should use Revanced.

[-] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

Just use new pipe, The home page is just videos from your subscribed channels and there is no one click way to see an endless stream of shorts. You can still see them if you search them. Bonus: no ads.

[-] quesomodo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Also, there is no algorithm-curated home feed on NewPipe. You'll just get a simple feed with the latest videos from the channels you are subscribed to, which is a big plus in my book.

[-] radix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

And I no longer follow them.

[-] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

https://letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts

[-] Willifire@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Kinglink@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

What pisses me off the most is channels I used to like, stuff like Scam Nation who now repackages all their old content as shorts. And so I unsubscribe because I don't want that level of spam.

Youtube Shorts sounds like an interesting idea, that has all the problems of Tiktok, and then clutters up Youtube. It would be SO easy for people to be able to opt out of Shorts, but that's not how it works, and Youtube's UI keeps pushing them to the point where I stop looking at my notifications.

Great work Google.

this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023

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