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!
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
There’s a firefox addon called ’ Hide Youtube-Shorts’ and now I just never see them.
Hide Youtube-Shorts
Thank you for this! I can’t stand the shorts in my subscription feed.
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.
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.
Also infuriating: With how much YT is incentivizing creators to create shorts, a bunch of channels I follow no longer even make regular 10-15 minute content regularly.
And I no longer follow them.
The more they shove these down my throat the less I want to watch them
creators cutting 16:9 videos to the worst possible format (phone vertical) ugh
Be reasonable. All sites must have Stories, and they must have Short Vertical Videos. They must. Surely you can see the necessity of that.
Try ReVanced it doesn’t have the shorts button, and you can remove shorts from your home feed.
I was thinking of making some Shorts for students, especially since attention spans seem to be getting shorter and shorter. This article was inspirational. https://www.chemedx.org/blog/how-use-tiktok-and-youtube-shorts-your-chemistry-class
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.
I love the rant. Titrating (pardon the pun) content to kids and having them engage properly is such a big battle.
The most annoying thing about Shorts is that they appear right along the regular videos in /subscriptions
I don’t mind shorts but their recommendations are somehow even worse that regular yt recommendations. And those are already dogshit…
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.
YouTube Revanced is a replacement for the Vanced app that is less likely to get taken down since it doesn’t distribute YouTube assets
This thread made me look up Google Chrome Youtube Short Block Extension, installed, working, easy peasy lemon squeezy
Yeah, on my Linux and PC units I have good Chrome extensions. Still helpful, thanks!
In case someone likes the content of YT shorts but can’t stand the web player: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/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.
Revanced Manager has a patch option to hide shorts from the feed, it’s not much but it is something!
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.
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
minutesseconds of fame.But now, they aren’t just pushing Shorts on us viewers, they are forcing channels to do Shorts to get better visibility.
