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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by asdff »

modzu wrote: post #16

i can't even get youtube to load with ublock.. theres a years old thread with hundreds of comments on the github -- what are people actually using today to preserve their sanity on youtube? edit: the issue with ublock is the black screen - sometimes the video loads after 10 or so seconds, sometimes it doesnt. i dont consider hiding the ad while still having to wait around for it to finsish playing behind an overlay t…

Ublock origin for whatever reason never blocks ads before video for me. IDK what is up with my parameters because I know it works for other people.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by jahnu »

jbjbjbjb wrote: post #89

I use Brave to watch YouTube. I was pleasantly surprised that they had so many YouTube related features, blocking shorts is one of them.

Same. One I want though is for it to remember to not auto-preview videos. YouTube refuses to remember this setting.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by eek2121 »

I know this won't help much, however, FreeTube can help with this. Yes, it is a standalone app, however...

Also, if you a Google/Youtube employee, rubbing your hands together, making fun of folks, and generally thinking negative thoughts, take it from a former veteran software engineer/manager (never had the desire to move up the ladder, and I am disabled now thanks to a tragic accident): There are a ton of negative comments about your UX, even from paid users. Nobody likes your shit. They only tolerate it because you currently have a monopoly. That will not always be the case. You are failing yourself, your job, and your users. Learn to put those users first. If Google had stuck to that early on, uBlock Origin wouldn't exist.

I know everyone at Google is tone deaf, so let me put this another way: Someone is ALWAYS left holding the bag. It could be you, the lowly programmer, or it could be you, the lowly manager. It could also be anyone in C-Suite. Once the numbers don't align with what investors want to see, someone will be blamed. As we reach the top of an AI bubble, those at the top are going to want to find a way to blame others down below, that means you will likely take the hit.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by phony-account »

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 when I say I’m not interested in whole genres of ‘fun’ videos, it also resets the streaming quality to the lowest setting every single day and then hides the quality setting deep inside a menu with several fiddly clicks.

And this isn’t for my benefit of course: I can easily stream 4K video to my screens. It’s to shave a few cents off each stream and max the gouging.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by brycewray »

iainctduncan wrote: post #26

The easy way to do this is to hide them with custom CSS - Install Stylebot extension for your browser - make an entry for youtube.com - enter this css: .shortsLockupViewModelHost { display: none} Bam, no more shorts.

Stylebot is no longer actively developed, but the similar (and open-source) Stylus extension is.

Repo: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/styl-us/

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by cwillu »

hightrix wrote: post #32
marcosscriven wrote: post #11

I’m sure I’ve clicked “show fewer shorts” every single time it’s shown me shorts. It seems to make zero difference.

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.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by Dylan16807 »

janderson215 wrote: post #80
n4bz0r wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might be wrong, but I don't think people really care about the addictiveness in the first place. As I see it, the shorts were irritating to see, mainly because they were heavily out of tune with the rest of recommendations. But they seem to have tuned them to be more in line with the rest of the videos. Being not that different from the rest of the videos one gets recommended, there is not much point in hiding them…

No, because it’s that much easier to justify watching “just one more” and totally lose the desire to go to sleep or do some other healthy behavior. If you’re only “irritated” by them for now, that’s just because the algorithm hasn’t gotten you yet. One day, you will be weak and fall prey.

> One day, you will be weak and fall prey.

I really dislike statements like this. It's not cocaine.

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