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.
There are some that are a couple minutes long, but those are mainly cropped sections of longer videos
I create content but not for any form of monetization or trying to be popular, I just like to make things that are useful. I’m not happy about it, but my most successful video ever, 40,000 plus views was how to fix a lighter. YouTube automatically made it a short because it was under a minute.
I crapped that video out in about 20 minutes… Meanwhile the videos I put dozens of hours into get maybe 3, 4, 5, 600 views
No Shorts for me, thanks. ReVanced.
FYI Morphe is the new ReVanced
PipePipe is also great at filtering shorts.
Ha ha, look at that guy who thinks that the users ’ interests are of any concern to social media companies.
It’s also funny looking at it from the other side, from youtube creators saying they feel pressured to make shorts because shorts are so popular right now.
They’re only ‘popular’ because youtube is pushing them like crazy on everyone they can. Youtube is manufacturing the demand, and creators feel the need to cater to that demand.
The video recommendations are based entirely on what you’ve chosen to watch, so it’s pretty clear they do.
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/
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.
True
Pssst - put “before:2027” as it is, without spaces after the search query to change that. I’m guessing this won’t be working for too painfully long now with the ai search thing, but grab it while it’s hot I guess
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
Yep. I occasionally need to search for a shorts video, but unless I do you can just select to not see the shorts in search, which is surprisingly nice, and should be included on the web UI.
I use revanced so I can block them entirely.
Most devs have abandoned Revanced because the owner is an asshole. They’ve started a fork called ‘Morphe’. Revanced is allegedly carelessly stealing code from Morphe, including using AI to “copy” patches from Morphe to Revanced, but the Revanced subreddit and discord mods are suppressing all mention of Morphe.
The only way to use youtube anymore
Also smart tube on the tv, my one complaint is that movies don’t work on that one.
That’s because the movie streams are encrypted and cannot be watched on third party apps. And even worse, YT is now experimenting with encrypting all the videos… Only reason I know this is because my account was unluckily chosen in an A/B test and I couldn’t watch anything on VacuumTube or SmartTube…
That’s very annoying. It’s only a matter of time until all workarounds stop working and youtube becomes completely unusable
You know, piracy sites don’t have that problem
I’m able to watch the movies on revanced without ads
Oh no that works fine for me too, but it only works because it’s technically the “official” app except it’s just patched. Everything else like the apps made for TVs and such will not work with encrypted streams. I really hope they don’t go through with it. I quite enjoy casting stuff to my steamdeck and second monitors.
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.
You can block them on Android in YouTube morphe too (the successor to revanced which is on its way to being abandonware atp)
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
It’s asinine because you could already upload short videos if you chose to
what would you choose as a big ass copoeate multi-billion conglomerate
•Consumer Satisfaction- More Money 🤑
Customer satisfaction is usually what makes them money. Youtube is a bit different since you don’t pay for anything.
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.
I don’t know what you are talking about because I’ve had an addon that removes shorts for years now.
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.
After decades of stripping away info from videos? Tell me ain’t so!
Yeah, I still have artists I like on the channel (social network effect, ugh), but I watch as the algorithm is trying to steer me away from them. It’s frankly disgraceful.
I use the Youtube app on my old smart TV. One of the things that bothers me the most is navigation. Navigating the side bar makes every option load in its entirety as you scroll down it. Want to resume a video you already partially watched? You have to scroll to “Library” to get to your history. But you can’t just scroll there and get it over with, because just going down the menu means having to wait for every single page between “Home” and “Library” to load. What should be a quick, “click down four times, click right once, start video” becomes, “click down once, wait. Click again, wait. Click again, wait. Click again, wait…”
I see no reason why we can’t navigate the side menu without having shit load every time we click. If I wanted a preview of what’s available, I’d just choose that tab and go from there. If I’m trying to navigate to something specific I want to watch, it’s like YouTube goes out of their way to make it a pain in the ass.
See if you can install the smarttube APK. Worlds different, can block shorts, auto blocks ads, built in auto update. I won’t watch YouTube without some sort of a blocker, I used reavanced on my phone and tablets.
Unfortunately, the TV’s a Roku. I haven’t got the money to get a different one. Are there any ad-block options that would work for that?
If you can install apps via USB, smarttube should work. Will need to research your model
Don’t need a new TV either, get a device like a Chromecast or Nvidia shield, they allow apk installation.
I hate there that it’s shoulder-to-shoulder with the videos so unless you use the scroll bar you get so much auto play
Install Revanced or Morphe. Delete ahorts from app. Profit
