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

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!

trambe,
@trambe@lemmy.world avatar

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,
@TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world avatar

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

FlipsWhitefudge,

Hide Youtube-Shorts

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

Greenskye,

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.

at_an_angle,

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.

vicfic,

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,
@quesomodo@programming.dev avatar

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.

Monologue,

youtube revanced allows you to disable it, i strongly recommend patching the app yourself

if you are interested here is the github link

gingersneak,

I can second this enthusiastically, especially since it also blocks ads and sponsored segments, customizes the UI, allows background playback, allows downloads, and more stuff too.

Monologue,

yup it blows my mind that this is a much better experience than youtube premium not to mention you get it for free

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

yup it blows my mind that this is a much better experience than youtube premium not to mention you get it for free

Pretty much sums up all forms of piracy these days, given how bad the official media landscape became.

Monologue,

or in some cases prices are simply outrageous, i can not afford to pay that much for a medical textbook i will just sail the high seas and repay my debt by saving lives

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

or in some cases prices are simply outrageous

Even if individual prices aren’t: no person with somewhat normal amount of income can pay for everything they’re interested in (unless the scope of interests is very narrow). Streaming services here, “Patreon exclusives” there. It adds up. I miss the time where all professional content was just on Netflix instead of spread over 30 services.

AlbyEvent,

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

couragethebravedog,

What about revanced ?

SouthernCross,

Revanced is the shit. Everyone should use Revanced.

scarabic,

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,

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

Silviecat44,

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

BearPear,
@BearPear@lemmy.world avatar

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.

saplyng,
saplyng avatar

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

labguy20,

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,
@Regna@lemmy.world avatar

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,

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

Kinglink,

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,
@Regna@lemmy.world avatar

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.

downpunxx,

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

Regna,
@Regna@lemmy.world avatar

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

throws_lemy,
@throws_lemy@lemmy.nz avatar

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

octt,
@octt@feddit.it avatar

On mobile you can use extensions like uBlock Origin (content blocker) or Stylus (CSS injector) if you use some specific browsers, and use youtube.com in those: Firefox, Yandex Browser (ugh I know), or Kiwi Browser (Android-only). It’s a mess, I know, but it’s a solution.

Regna,
@Regna@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks. It’s helpful, uBlock Origin etc didn’t do much on my mobile devices, but I haven’t looked into Firefox or the other ones for the mobile devices.

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