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.
Getting Revanced to remove shorts and ads is a must.
Even if you were to pay YouTube, you can’t remove the 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/
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.
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 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 used Pipepipe as well!
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)
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.
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.
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 hate there that it’s shoulder-to-shoulder with the videos so unless you use the scroll bar you get so much auto play
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.
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.
Seriously? Spotify, any streamkng services, even youtube? Adobe products? Anything that requires a subscription nowadays is so so much enshittified…
You do pay for Youtube, either with your money or your attention.
I don’t mind them too much. I also don’t watch a lot of them and I especially don’t scroll through them. But I like that they (usually) get right to the point instead of waffling about and I don’t have to block any ads.
And contrary to sentiment elsewhere in this thread, some are really informative. If someone’s feed is filled with brainrot I feel bad for ya son, I got 99 video suggestions and brainrot’s getting blocked (I know it doesn’t rhyme, we can workshop it.)
The one that would most fit the bill for Lemmings is Chris Boden aka Physicsduck but there are heaps of informative creators making short content that doesn’t waffle on just to pad the runtime.
That being said; obviously if the goal is to watch a 1 hour deep dive into a subject and the reaction is “shorts can’t do that”…. Well, yeah, they’re like the fun facts you could get on Minty’s wrappers not documentaries.
Wouldn’t know. I use YouTube in firefox and block ads and shorts with extensions.
Shorts do serve a semi-decent purpose of watching a clip instead of the 10:03 length version so they hit the monitization minimum.
Where it doesn’t work…is when the clip has so many cuts in it it kisses the point.
But it offers “skip to highlight” now, so you’re not limited to only 30 seconds. If you’re trying to fix something, sometimes you need more context rather than just a screwdriver unscrewing something and not explaining shit.
In 15 years YouTube will have a whole new set of policies to make portrait videos suck, and everyone will start using diagonal videos.
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
I’ve experienced this too.
Install Revanced or Morphe. Delete ahorts from app. Profit
