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!

  • @trambeEnglish
    45•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 (he, him)English
      21•1 year ago

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

      • @FlipsWhitefudgeEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Hide Youtube-Shorts

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

    • at_an_angleEnglish
      8•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.

    • @GreenskyeEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      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.