Extensions -> hide shorts
Or use revanced/morphe and hide shorts patch
There’s still some good content in shorts (namely original skits) but most of it is low tier content
i have about 80 lines of filters devoted to hiding them in ublock origin. Works like a charm
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
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.
There are ways to block shorts.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/18/how-to-hide-the-shorts-section-on-youtube/
Yeah this was written a few years back but it was last updated in Feb of this year.
I just “picked” the shorts section with uBlock
YouTube Shorts make zero difference if one’s pattern of usage of YouTube is to only watch YouTube videos linked from other sources rather than actually staying within YouTube and consuming one after the other the videos their algorithm puts in front of you.
Personally I’ve never really got into the whole thing of just staying in YouTube and watching those videos that YouTube suggests, maybe because YouTube tends to suggest stuff with alarmist titles (“You won’t believe what we’ve just found out”) and other such loudmouth bullshitter crap, and for me that stuff just screams “untrustworthy and superficial bullshit which won’t teach me anything new with any depth” so for years it’s been the case that when I end up in YouTube their algorithm quickly put me off from consuming what it suggests. At most when I do stay within the YouTube environment to watch multiple videos, I’m explicitly searching for specific stuff, generally more stuff from the same person of the last good video I watched.
Usually I get a lot better YouTube video “suggestions” from links in posts and comments here or even in Reddit (back when I frequented it) than from the YouTube algorithm.
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.
I’ve taken various steps to ensure shorts don’t show up in my Youtube web experience.
Shorts was a large reason why i stopped watching YouTube, not the only one, but a big part.
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.
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 hate there that it’s shoulder-to-shoulder with the videos so unless you use the scroll bar you get so much auto play
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 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.
I wouldn’t know, I haven’t used the official youtube app in a while
Looks like more people actively consume Youtube than i thought. And then even on their slow vibe page, probably logged in. Most here are rather tech-literate, no? Why not take a minute, to look up a native privacy-conscious client?
Unhook is a good extension for YouTube. It can hide various distractions, such as shorts, and it’s also configurable.
I use untrap
This is the way. (This or FreeTube.)
Note that the Firefox Add-On store features it as “Recommended”, i.e. the extension is monitored for safety.
YouTube should never have been an app in the first place.
Wasn’t it literally the first app available for the iPhone, aside from apples stuff?
