YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  used Revanced to get rid of them already

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  • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Heard it got discontinued by devs leaving over POS repo owner and that “Morphe” is it’s successor with the devs moving there instead.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      great, more drama for me to figure out.

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  • SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Revanced is the best thing to happen to YouTube!

    Been using it since YouTube Vanced became brokie and I’ve loved every change they’ve made, even with GitHub trying to stop them

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    • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was just updating recently, and the launcher really is a beast now, all in one, almost fully automated, right here on my phone

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Blocked with uBO a long time ago. lmao

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  • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Revance you can block it too.

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  • swagmoney@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    til uBO has this feature

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not out of the box, but it can block basically anything if you create a custom filter.

      I even use to re-size the thumbnails so I get 5 videos per row on my feed instead of just 3.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can block lots of things with the picker.

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• unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Turned that shit on immediately.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does it remove every trace of shorts like the browser addons do?

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• stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why don’t they just make them behave like normal videos? The problem with shorts is the repeating and the endless scrolling (and the ever-present prompt to scroll). A lot of perfectly useful/entertaining content has been recommended to me by the static presentation on the home screen.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the whole idea of shorts and tiktok style though; rapidly consuming quick content.

    I think its interesting that for some people, that experience is deeply uncomfortable, and for others its necessary. It may sound over the top but I see a lot of parallels to hard drug addiction.

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s necessary for anyone, though I understand you probably mean they feel it is. They’ve done at least one study I read which showed that being fed content actually makes you stupid in the immediate short-term (long-term was outside the scope of the study). Consuming the same content by selecting which ones you want to see caused no problems. It’s the removal of agency that’s thought to be the problem, training your brain to be passive.

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  • merdaverse@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just use this extension that plays them like normal videos. The UX for shorts is dumb as fuck

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    • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use this simple userscript, no need for a random extension that only works in chrome greasyfork.org/en/scripts/…/code

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    • magnue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same it’s the best of both. Sometimes I actually want to watch a short because it’s relevant. The problem is that the UI autoplays the next video and you can’t time scrub back to the bit you probably wanted to see a second time and before you know it you’re watching cat videos and 1 hour has passed.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i just set up a redirect from /shorts/video-id to /watch?v=video-id. then you get the normal player.

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same, I used Tampermonkey. It also inserts a floating switch to turn them off or on in results.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The player isn’t the issue with shorts. It’s the content.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is more than one issue with YouTube Shorts

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      my subscriptions usually upload shorter updates or extra bits as shorts, so i want to keep them on without the horrendous ui.

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• MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It doesn’t actually turn off shorts, just prevents (limits) infinite scrolling.

  You’ll still be recommended shorts and if you accidentally click a short it will play.

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s no zero option though, I just checked

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  • poke@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you for reporting back

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  • compuglobalhypermeganet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just checked and it was there for me.

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  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t see one either - I’m in Denmark, maybe it’s rolling out in different regions?

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  About god damned time, we dont want tiktok

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wonder what would happen to society if ultra-short continuous video feeds like these would get banned.

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• rollerbang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t watch shorts, but I’ve checked the setting anyway and the minimum that it allows for me is 15 minutes, not 0.

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve had the Unhook extension for years, and YouTube’s decision not to make Shorts hideable was the catalyst. I still won’t uninstall it because it gets rid of a bunch of YouTube’s other trash, but this is at least moves the needle so it’s no longer unthinkable to get rid of it.

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• Padit@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hated how shorts were designed to draw me into this app so much, that i deleted it all together. Now i reinstalled it, just to find out, that the feature is not yet rolled out to me.

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  • umfk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used revanced to completely disable shorts in the YouTube app.

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• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe I’m using Shorts in a different way, but I’m not seeing a problem with them. I just view them through the home page and they’re in my suggested list like every other video. I consider them just another format of video to watch.

  I think the difference is I look at them like discreet units and then jump back to my homepage as opposed to doomscrolling them.

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  • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For people browsing on mobile in the youtube app(the vast majority, i imagine), if you click a short it will take you into the shorts interface, which is designed to maximally draw users in to doomscrolling. On pc its a very different experience and easier to disengage since it just pops up like a normal video (usually?)

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    • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That makes sense. I rarely use my phone except to cast to my TV. Majority of where I use it is on PC

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    • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sharts on desktop uses its own interface also

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  • JakenVeina@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have two main conplaints about shorts, myself, the end result of which is that I prefer to just never see them in my feed, ever.

    1. Most shorts that pop up for me are literally just clips from longer form videos I’ve already seen, or are already on my Watch Later list. And there’s SO damn many of them. Those types of shorts are purely clutter.

    2. The other type of shorts I see most often are just aping the tiktok format, characterized by being extremely shallow and low-effort, as well as having the INFURIATING tendency to be over-edited for length trimming. You know the type of editing I mean, the one where the creator apparently thinks that even pausing to BREATHE between words or thoughts is too much downtime in the video. I find it insulting that TikTok and now YouTube have normalized the idea that creators should be so overwhelmingly desperate to capture every moment of your attention. Plus, it’s pretty well understood by now that feeding your attention that heavily is wildly unhealthy for your brain.

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    • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This really fucks up the delivery and timing of comedy clips. I’ll admit I watch a lot of shorts and there are some specific creators who are really good at it. Shout out to miniminuteman and hydronyc.

      I quickly run into terribly cut clips that are only coherent when you watch the full video, and of course a plethora of AI slop of both clips and ads.

      I need to get off this shit.

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that’s great but it is simple as I don’t want to

    nothing more need be discussed

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• LightYagami@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  PipePipe has no shorts to begin!

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Absurd that we need YouTube for that. In an ideal world, YouTube would be a backend service with an open API which there would be dozens of different apps for, with different features, including maybe this one… but I suppose you can’t make money with an ideal world…

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• djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just use Freetube.

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• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  OH THANK GOD

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    because fuck you watch our ads that’s why

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• cybernihongo@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NewPipe literally has none of this shit. The various invidious instances as well. If you continue to use the official YouTube app, that’s on you.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even Revanced has the options to hide Shorts or open them as regular videos. So does youtube.com with a simple Redirector rule.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay, you gotta admit that “feed limit” is a pretty good joke.

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• baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this is app only and the 0 hour limit is now gone

  sadly useless advice now

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Already blocked with revanced

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Morphe

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• skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mine doesn’t have an option for 0.

  Lame.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those shorts are entertaining little chunks of nothing that have no date and are usually cut off at the end. I’m thankful I can urn them off.

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• flactwin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  so more restrictions, cool, interesting but how much they have to do to totaly inject hate in their userbase like facebook did

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not a restriction, it’s user control. You can have them always on (and I suspect that will stay as the default), turn them off, or anything in between.

    You just got more tools to control the interface, what’s wrong about that?

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    • flactwin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      appreciate it but just not write full reply, i thought: yes this feature is great but they have more restrictions and always fight adblockers, yes this still understandable by this is biggest video sharing service

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    • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      lol there is no 0 option

      this isn’t about user control this is getting ahead of CYA because regulation is likely coming given multiple countries are serious about limiting ages that can access social media

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• stopforgettingit@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The is changed on Android, at least, now. 15 min is the minimum

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• amaryllisfever@lemmychan.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been using an addon for that for awhile: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/hide-youtube-shorts/

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