I prefer “list” view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.

  • Favrion
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    171 year ago

    Worse, they have started playing Shorts without my consent as soon as I open the app.

    • Favrion
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      191 year ago

      I don’t feel fond of participating in mindnumbing TikTok worship.

      • pancakes
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        111 year ago

        I prefer my own, different mindnumbing activities thank you very much.

      • Favrion
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        41 year ago

        No, it happens like a cold call when I haven’t opened the app all day.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I don’t experience this and I’ve never heard anyone else claim to experience it you positive that you’re forced quitting the app?

        • glibg10b
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          11 year ago

          Revanced-extended has a patch for this (see disable-shorts-on-startup here)

          • Favrion
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            01 year ago

            How do I do that?

            • glibg10b
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              1. Download YouTube version 18.25.40 (nodpi) but don’t install it. Here’s one place you could get it.
              2. Download ReVanced here and install it
              3. Add the Revanced Extended patches:

              1. Go to the patcher (at the bottom of the screen) and follow the instructions. Make sure you select the YouTube APK file you downloaded previously from storage. Enable at least the “Vanced MicroG support” and “Disable Shorts on startup” patches. There are also patches for disabling ads, shorts, showing an estimated but accurate dislike counter (“ReturnYouTubeDislike”) and automatically skipping sponsored segments (“SponsorBlock”)
              2. Click “Install”
              3. Download and install Vanced Manager (it’s discontinued, but you can get it here)
              4. Fire it up and use it to install Vanced MicroG
              5. You’re done. You can now uninstall all the apps you installed except Vanced MicroG and YouTube
    • Tb0n3
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      31 year ago

      If you’re on Android check out ReVanced. It lets you patch YouTube to disable shorts and even get rid of all ads, bring back dislikes, and sponsorblock. Just have to get an apk since it can’t handle stock installs, and also microg_vanced for login. No root required.

      • Favrion
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        -11 year ago

        What does any of that jargon mean?

        • Tb0n3
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          11 year ago

          ReVanced (manager) is the program name that creates changes in the YouTube program. apk is the android package format. Like an exe or msi file on windows it installs the program. Sponsorblock is an addon that uses community submitted timestamps for videos that tells it where sponsorships, music, intros, outros, subscribe reminders, etc are in the videos and can be set up to automatically skip them.

          • Favrion
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            01 year ago

            How do I set up the first one? I don’t want the second one.

            • Tb0n3
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              11 year ago

              It’s just an option given during the patching process. I’ll send you a link to my private server so it’s not hammered. It’ll have all the files needed to get going. Let me just make sure to update it to the current versions.

              • Favrion
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                01 year ago

                All I want to do is stop shorts from playing when I open the app.

                • Tb0n3
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                  01 year ago

                  That was included in the patches. Disable shorts on startup.

                  • Favrion
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                    01 year ago

                    I’m not a programmer if I haven’t made that clear. I’d rather deal with the ads and sponsors and invasive shorts than risk exploding my phone by miscoding something.