YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts
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Limit your Shorts scrolling to zero minutes per day.
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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.
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…
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.
I used revanced to completely disable shorts in the YouTube app.
Already blocked with revanced
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.
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?)
That makes sense. I rarely use my phone except to cast to my TV. Majority of where I use it is on PC
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.
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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.
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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.
Shorts should have been a different app in the first place
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.
used Revanced to get rid of them already
Heard it got discontinued by devs leaving over POS repo owner and that "Morphe" is it's successor with the devs moving there instead.
great, more drama for me to figure out.
I feel you. Learned about it just recently but revanced still works for me so I'm not going to bother changing anything right now.
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
I was just updating recently, and the launcher really is a beast now, all in one, almost fully automated, right here on my phone
Blocked with uBO a long time ago. lmao
Revance you can block it too.
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.
Turned that shit on immediately.
Does it remove every trace of shorts like the browser addons do?
i just set up a redirect from /shorts/video-id to /watch?v=video-id. then you get the normal player.
The player isn't the issue with shorts. It's the content.
Same, I used Tampermonkey. It also inserts a floating switch to turn them off or on in results.
I've been using an addon for that for awhile: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-youtube-shorts/
PipePipe has no shorts to begin!
There’s no zero option though, I just checked. Apparently that’s coming soon.
I didn't see one either - I'm in Denmark, maybe it's rolling out in different regions?
Thank you for reporting back
I just checked and it was there for me.
About god damned time, we dont want tiktok
Wonder what would happen to society if ultra-short continuous video feeds like these would get banned.
I just use Freetube.
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 uninstall it.
so more restrictions, cool, interesting but how much they have to do to totaly inject hate in their userbase like facebook did
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 and remove what you don't care about, what's wrong about that?
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
Okay, you gotta admit that "feed limit" is a pretty good joke.
