YouTube Shorts - for those of us who don't want TikTok

throws_lemy, 10 months ago

I don’t watch tiktok and I don’t want youtube shorts either, they are all equally stupid.

I watch youtube on android phone with NewPipe. On desktop I use Firefox+uBlock Origin with this filter sets

letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts

saplyng, 10 months ago

Revanced Manager has a patch option to hide shorts from the feed, it's not much but it is something!

vicfic, 10 months ago

Just use new pipe, The home page is just videos from your subscribed channels and there is no one click way to see an endless stream of shorts. You can still see them if you search them. Bonus: no ads.

quesomodo, 10 months ago

Also, there is no algorithm-curated home feed on NewPipe. You’ll just get a simple feed with the latest videos from the channels you are subscribed to, which is a big plus in my book.

AlbyEvent, 10 months ago

Try ReVanced it doesn’t have the shorts button, and you can remove shorts from your home feed.

couragethebravedog, 10 months ago

What about revanced ?

SouthernCross, 10 months ago

Revanced is the shit. Everyone should use Revanced.

scarabic, 10 months ago

Be reasonable. All sites must have Stories, and they must have Short Vertical Videos. They must. Surely you can see the necessity of that.

fing3r, 10 months ago

The most annoying thing about Shorts is that they appear right along the regular videos in /subscriptions

Silviecat44, 10 months ago

I like some YT shorts once in a while to mix it up

BearPear, 10 months ago

I hate shorts so much that I don’t even have YouTube installed on my phone. I use libretube and newpipe on my phone. The crazy thing is YouTube of pushing shorts on desktop as well.

labguy20, 10 months ago

I was thinking of making some Shorts for students, especially since attention spans seem to be getting shorter and shorter. This article was inspirational. chemedx.org/…/how-use-tiktok-and-youtube-shorts-y…

Regna, 10 months ago

There is one thing about it being voluntary to create. But they’re pushing YT Shorts down both content creators and viewers throats.

As a former teacher and mentor, I agree with the thought to make content more interesting and digestible for the younger generation. What I don’t agree with is packaging everything into mindless kick-rewarding (dopamine hitting) bits, like Candy Crush, One armed bandits or Tik Tok videos.

If you package too much study content into this kind of easily digestible and forgettable bits, you have to remember: it flows out from their minds almost as fast as they spent the effort to see it… maybe it lasted longer if they shared it with their friends/network, but the lesson you wanted them to absorb will mostly disappear faster than the time it took you to create it.

We work (and should work) to create (at least some) lasting impressions that educate. The most memorable moment that one of my study groups had with one of their “cool TikTok and Fortnite savvy” teachers was when they did candy flossing after it stopped being cool. What lessons he taught? They couldn’t remember if it was English or Math.

Sorry for my rant. I digressed.

labguy20, 10 months ago

I love the rant. Titrating (pardon the pun) content to kids and having them engage properly is such a big battle.

Willifire, 10 months ago

I don’t mind shorts but their recommendations are somehow even worse that regular yt recommendations. And those are already dogshit…

woelkchen, 10 months ago

In case someone likes the content of YT shorts but can’t stand the web player: greasyfork.org/…/439993-youtube-shorts-redirect

Turns shorts into “normal” videos. Still the same orientation but at least a player that doesn’t loop and even applies SponsorBlock rules if there are any.

downpunxx, 10 months ago

This thread made me look up Google Chrome Youtube Short Block Extension, installed, working, easy peasy lemon squeezy

Regna, 10 months ago

Yeah, on my Linux and PC units I have good Chrome extensions. Still helpful, thanks!

pimpelmees, 10 months ago

Shorts are mostly just disappointing. Sometimes I don’t notice that I’m clicking a short because the title seemed interesting. Then after 30 seconds it’s already done, and all those times the content wasn’t even that good! You would think that maybe they could condense the best parts of a long video into a shorter one, but instead they just lack any depth and information.

In the same vein, the way Instagram is pushing their (autoplaying) Reels is even worse.

Kinglink, 10 months ago

What pisses me off the most is channels I used to like, stuff like Scam Nation who now repackages all their old content as shorts. And so I unsubscribe because I don’t want that level of spam.

Youtube Shorts sounds like an interesting idea, that has all the problems of Tiktok, and then clutters up Youtube. It would be SO easy for people to be able to opt out of Shorts, but that’s not how it works, and Youtube’s UI keeps pushing them to the point where I stop looking at my notifications.

Great work Google.

Regna, 10 months ago

Yeah, the easiest option for Google/YT would be to keep Shorts to the Shorts category only/mainly, and keep the ability for users to opt out of Shorts in the platform’s players. That way, creators who want to push 5 to 30 second videos instead of 10 - 200 minutes would still get their 15 minutes seconds of fame.

But now, they aren’t just pushing Shorts on us viewers, they are forcing channels to do Shorts to get better visibility.