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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by calmbonsai »

NoahZuniga wrote: post #136
phero_cnstrcts wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This is also not true and hasn't been so for years. One can set a preference to "not recommend", but one can not explicitly block any channel.

Depending on your particular "preference constellation's weights" (over which you have no direct control), you can, in fact, be shown videos from that channel again.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by insin »

encom wrote: post #130
insin wrote: post #111

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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.

If you're using Firefox you could set up a userContent.css to apply the necessary CSS overrides to youtube.com, otherwise you'd need an extension to do that.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by goalieca »

nathancspencer wrote: post #147
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…

Pretty sure shorts disables if you turn off watch history: ( https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/youtube-update-homepage-wa... )

I’ve had watch history off for years and it shows me shorts above my actual subscriptions.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by PlatoIsADisease »

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

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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”

Normies who can't figure out the 3 buttons it takes to use ublock pay for such things.

Its a tax on not being smart?

I'm mostly kidding, but I just use ublock and I've never considered buying youtube premium. Try harder google?

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

calmbonsai wrote: post #144
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 other media (music, games, sports, comedy, books) and even do some Patreon for a few podcasts and YT channels, but I refuse to directly support a publishing monopoly that has had an actively user-hostile interface for over a decade.

I do too. I don’t use YouTube with the one exception of official AWS videos. But those don’t have commercials.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by tomashubelbauer »

atoav wrote: post #94
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.

Do you want $foo? Yes | Ask again later Modern tech companies behave like abusers or creepy stalkers. They won't take No for an answer.

I'm disappointed that even Signal does this when asking you for access to your contacts.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by IG_Semmelweiss »

drnick1 wrote: post #118
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…

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.

i'm the same as you, but YT has started to place its content behind sign-in wall

Anon usage + uBlock and VPN, is a dead man walking

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by cmvincen »

chaps wrote: post #51

Anyone have any similar uBlock filter lists like this?

I have some lists [1] I use to hide YouTube's constant recommendations of things I've already watched. They also hide previously watched music videos, which may be a downside.

1. https://caleb-vincent.io/post/2025-10-01_youtube-filters/#ju...

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by 486sx33 »

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…

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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by serf »

RGamma wrote: post #131
mog_dev wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>Youtube is far too significant a video collection to risk losing it.

> Not sure whether increasing financial pressure (above what must, no doubt, build up on its own) is the right answer here.

fantastic, an appeal to personal guilt to fund large corporate money making and national/corporate-soft-power efforts.

an acquired predatory advertiser, the worlds #1 inadequate and neglectful child nanny, and world wide cultural trend-setter is also bad at making money? and they need more? and you say they won't squander it?

I think i'll donate to PBS while aiding YT archival efforts.

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