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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by RGamma »

mog_dev wrote: post #114
phony-account wrote: post #106

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…

If you pay for youtube, you are part of the problem

Youtube is far too significant a video collection to risk losing it. Yes there is insane anounts of garbage and yes their history is getting spottier by the day, but nothing else comes close to all of the good stuff that is still on it.

Google needs to get its shit together and give users power tools. YT hasn't improved materially for many years now. I hope they can snap out of whatever governance dysfunction they're in. Not sure whether increasing financial pressure (above what must, no doubt, build up on its own) is the right answer here. It will probably only lead to more enshittification, and a long, slow death and I'm pretty saddened by that thought.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by phero_cnstrcts »

AlexandrB wrote: post #126
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does it make the sponsor sections of the videos go away too?

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by phero_cnstrcts »

phony-account wrote: post #106

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 hate that you can’t block specific channels from showing up in your feed. So much ai slop.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by AngryNPC »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #124
drnick1 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”

With the change in culture here, especially in the last 2-3 years, HN might as well be called Reddit News now. So it's not surprising that most people aren't consistent with their principles.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by rconti »

api wrote: post #37
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.

Short form video is addictive, so they want to push it. It maximizes time on site.

It's amazing that the algorithms are so universal rather than personalized. You'd think they'd want to notice that I _absolutely never_ watch shorts, and stop showing them to me, instead recommending something else.

I understand why FB/IG do it; I _occasionally_ give in and get sucked into a couple. But that NEVER happens to me with YT.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by NoahZuniga »

phero_cnstrcts wrote: post #133
phony-account wrote: post #106

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 hate that you can’t block specific channels from showing up in your feed. So much ai slop.

This is not true. You can in fact block specific channels. From YouTube support[1]: > On certain pages, such as your Home and Watch Next pages, find a video from a channel that you don’t want recommended to you.

> Click More next to the video title.

> Select Don't recommend channel .

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839?hl=en

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by mostlysimilar »

bluescrn wrote: post #128
phony-account wrote: post #106

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.

YouTube is social media first, even if it also happens to be a repository of useful content. Social media does not want you to navigate with agency. They want to choose what you see because it lets them keep you on the platform longer, which is the entire goal.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by shermantanktop »

AngryNPC wrote: post #134
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

With the change in culture here, especially in the last 2-3 years, HN might as well be called Reddit News now. So it's not surprising that most people aren't consistent with their principles.

Was HN known for consistency of principles before? I don’t remember that.

Whenever an online community is anthropomorphized as an individual, it looks hypocritical. The only groups that don’t look hypocritical are monocultural backwaters of groupthink, permabans, and self-editing.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by dietr1ch »

bluescrn wrote: post #128
phony-account wrote: post #106

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.

What's crazy is that their adtech definitely knows how to categorise stuff down to super specific topics, yet they only use that internally.
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