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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Anyone have any similar uBlock filter lists like this?

I'm also looking for a blocklist for X/Twitter that can remove the "who to follow", News sections, etc.

Not a blocklist, but for anyone who wants this, Control Panel for Twitter [1] can hide most things you'd want to hide on Twitter. The latest version adds a way to keep using the Dim dark mode variant theme they recently removed.

[1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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I’ve noticed this behavior for all Google properties. Every time I click “not interested” “don’t show me this again” or anything similar, it seems to have no effect as the best case. The worst case I’ve seen is when clicking these options seems to acts as a positive signal to show me more of that content. I’ve noticed this over years. As such, I’ve simply stopped interacting with googles recommendation systems and mo…

It's the same in tiktok: there's literally a button that says “I'm not interested in any live videos”, but it keeps inserting livestreams into the feed anyway.

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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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I’m paying over 40 dollars a month for YouTube but it doesn’t allow me to choose almost anything of what I see, despite trying hard to fine-tune my recommendations. I can’t permanently turn off shorts - and this I find personally insulting. It really feels like encountering a drug dealer outside my house every time I come home, always expecting me to cave and try some of that good smack. But apart from ignoring me wh…

Why are you still paying for Youtube? I run uBlock and haven't seen ads in years, don't see any cellphone format crap now thanks to this list, and VacuumTube on my TV defaults to 4K.

Hacker News commenters: “I don’t like ads. They are evil”

Also HN commenters: “I don’t want to pay for goods and services”

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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It's 99% the interface, cluttered with useless garbage over the video, that I hate. I hate it so much that I couldn't even see the content hiding behind it, and don't really know what the recommendation is like.

If you do want to watch one for whatever reason you can open it in the standard interface. The video IDs are neutral it's just the URL that determines which interface you get. Actually I guess a browser extension to redirect to a fixed up URL would resolve the problem entirely.

Control Panel for YouTube [1] lets you remove most of the clutter from the Shorts player UI, or redirect Shorts to the normal player (using YouTube's internal navigation if on desktop, so no full page reload)

You'll have to disable hiding them first, as they're completly hidden by default

[1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Why are you still paying for Youtube? I run uBlock and haven't seen ads in years, don't see any cellphone format crap now thanks to this list, and VacuumTube on my TV defaults to 4K.

Hacker News commenters: “I don’t like ads. They are evil” Also HN commenters: “I don’t want to pay for goods and services”

I pay for plenty of goods and services. Just not YouTube. As others have noted, YouTube premium makes ads go away, but none of the other engagement baiting and user disrespecting anti-patterns. As far as I'm concerned, Google is in adversarial relationship with its users, whether your paying or not.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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I’m paying over 40 dollars a month for YouTube but it doesn’t allow me to choose almost anything of what I see, despite trying hard to fine-tune my recommendations. I can’t permanently turn off shorts - and this I find personally insulting. It really feels like encountering a drug dealer outside my house every time I come home, always expecting me to cave and try some of that good smack. But apart from ignoring me wh…

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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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I’m paying over 40 dollars a month for YouTube but it doesn’t allow me to choose almost anything of what I see, despite trying hard to fine-tune my recommendations. I can’t permanently turn off shorts - and this I find personally insulting. It really feels like encountering a drug dealer outside my house every time I come home, always expecting me to cave and try some of that good smack. But apart from ignoring me wh…

I'm amazed that they still haven't added any way to organise/categorise your subscribed channels, it's just a big flat list.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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That’s like the crosswalk button that does nothing. It’s there purely for the placebo effect.

See also: call elevator to your floor buttons

How else do you get on the elevator? Wait for it to randomly appear?

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Sadly, it hasn't been updated since 2024 and is slowly breaking. Haven't found a good replacement yet.

I keep Control Panel for YouTube [1] up to date with the latest YouTube shenanigans. Most recently: restoring the Related sidebar layout with the giant thumbs, if you're not hiding them. Shorts are hidden and redirected if you land on one externally by default, and it _was_ also restoring the sort by Upload date filter UI, until YouTube went and killed that in the API ;_; [1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-yout…

>Remove the pink gradient from progress bars

How do I do that without an entire addon? This pink gradient irritates me so much.

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