Youtube

Yes, they are annoying.

The search is terrible even without shorts. The first 3 or for search results are related to your query, most everything after that is just unrelated stuff that YouTube thinks you'll like.

i have about 80 lines of filters devoted to hiding them in ublock origin. Works like a charm

Extensions -> hide shorts

Or use revanced/morphe and hide shorts patch

There's still some good content in shorts (namely original skits) but most of it is low tier content

Wouldn't know. I use YouTube in firefox and block ads and shorts with extensions.

I just ignore them, even though they are in my face. I've watched enough shorts to learn most are incomplete, most titles are deceiving, and no dates means I might be clicking on a news related item that is old hat. I can only find out the approximate date from the comments. I still love youtube for a lot of their other stuff though.

Most of the content providers are just re-cutting their existing stuff into shorts. They're low quality. Only the strongest creators can even manage to make one interesting enough to get someone to watch their channel

Shorts was a large reason why i stopped watching YouTube, not the only one, but a big part.

YouTube is so ass these days. It's the UI for me that turns me off. It's simplified yet it somehow also fails to communicate essential information.

YouTube Shorts make zero difference if one's pattern of usage of YouTube is to only watch YouTube videos linked from other sources rather than actually staying within YouTube and consuming one after the other the videos their algorithm puts in front of you.

Personally I've never really got into the whole thing of just staying in YouTube and watching those videos that YouTube suggests, maybe because YouTube tends to suggest stuff with alarmist titles ("You won't believe what we've just found out") and other such loudmouth bullshitter crap, and for me that stuff just screams "untrustworthy and superficial bullshit which won't teach me anything new with any depth" so for years it's been the case that when I end up in YouTube their algorithm quickly put me off from consuming what it suggests. At most when I do stay within the YouTube environment to watch multiple videos, I'm explicitly searching for specific stuff, generally more stuff from the same person of the last good video I watched.

Usually I get a lot better YouTube video "suggestions" from links in posts and comments here or even in Reddit (back when I frequented it) than from the YouTube algorithm.

Unhook is a good extension for YouTube. It can hide various distractions, such as shorts, and it's also configurable.

https://unhook.app/

If your computer is doing something you don't like, change it so that it doesn't do that. It's YOUR computer.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-youtube-shorts/

There are ways to block shorts.

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/18/how-to-hide-the-shorts-section-on-youtube/

Yeah this was written a few years back but it was last updated in Feb of this year.

Shorts is the most braindead form of content. No important and worthwhile information is going to be explained in less than 30 seconds. Block that shit.

I've taken various steps to ensure shorts don't show up in my Youtube web experience.

I blocked them with an extension in Firefox and it has improved my YouTube viewing experience, well, back to how it was before shorts, but still not quite as good as it was when we could still see downvotes.

Ha ha, look at that guy who thinks that the users ' interests are of any concern to social media companies.

No Shorts for me, thanks. ReVanced.

what would you choose as a big ass copoeate multi-billion conglomerate

•Consumer Satisfaction

• More Money 🤑

Looks like more people actively consume Youtube than i thought. And then even on their slow vibe page, probably logged in. Most here are rather tech-literate, no? Why not take a minute, to look up a native privacy-conscious client?

Install Revanced or Morphe. Delete ahorts from app. Profit

I have strong ADHD and no self control. will spend all day on short form content if I can. and I hate it.

Revanced saved me. thank Revanced

I wouldn't know, I haven't used the official youtube app in a while

It's asinine because you could already upload short videos if you chose to

I agree but from google's perspective siloing shorts off into a separate app would have meant nobody using it and it dying in a year by forcing it into YouTube's regular algorithm they're forcing everyone in their captive audience to engage with them which makes the experience measurably worse but is nice for somebody whose job relies on metrics I'm sure

I use notube, youtube and youtube music in one app ad-free and on tv trizentube cobolt. You can block shorts in their settings as well. (Android phone and androidTV)

I hate shorts!