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YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Re: YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Post by dahcryn »

savanaly wrote: post #8

>YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts No it doesn't. If you were hoping it would mean you don't see shorts when you visit the Youtube home page, that's not what this is. I just tried the thing mentioned in the article-- set my Shorts time limit to 0 minutes. What it does is make it so if you click a short from somewhere the short plays, but then if you try to swipe to the next one it hits you with the "You reached yo…

weird how its 0 to 15, and no in between.

I went in hoping to set it to 5 minutes. I don't see that as a problem. However, suddenly losing 15 minutes, yeah that's an issue

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Post by throwawaymobule »

insin wrote: post #60

Upvoting because Shorts are terrible. Flagging because the submission title - which is 100% faithful to the friendly article - is a complete lie! Plug: I added a bunch of features to Control Panel for YouTube [1] which let you either hide Shorts completely, everywhere (which is the default) or take more control of how you use them if you do (e.g. redirecting to the normal video player) [1] https://soitis.dev/control-…

I wish they'd show up like regular videos in the subscription feed, like they used to a few years ago.

Currently, I have to guess who uploaded a short to decide if I want to watch it.

Re: YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Post by josefresco »

el_benhameen wrote: post #80

I have no affiliation with Shorts Blocker, but I installed it a long time ago and immediately forgot that shorts existed. Worth whatever I paid for it. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shorts-blocker-for-youtube/id6...

Is there a similar blocker for Instagram Reels?

Re: YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Post by alex1138 »

trinsic2 wrote: post #95
alex1138 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real name? No? We'll ask again later

You sure you don't want to add your phone number? I makes verification easier next time you want to upload a video.

I was referring to Google+. I don't know if you mean something else like Facebook, which is no less abusive than Google+ ever was

People seemed to like Google+ but a) nymwars lead to dangerous situations (although no less dangerous than Facebook's graph search) for people that don't want to reveal their real names but also b) the merging of accounts ruined some people's Youtube channels. Zuckerberg is so much of a control freak that I suspect (based on evidence I've vaguely heard, not just my own intuition) links to Google+ used to get deleted. It used to be the case people liked it but they "couldn't get their friends to use it". So yeah - in part, inertia; but also what if you linked it and nobody saw it in the feed?

Re: YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Post by ChrisRR »

runevault wrote: post #109
savanaly wrote: post #8

>YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts No it doesn't. If you were hoping it would mean you don't see shorts when you visit the Youtube home page, that's not what this is. I just tried the thing mentioned in the article-- set my Shorts time limit to 0 minutes. What it does is make it so if you click a short from somewhere the short plays, but then if you try to swipe to the next one it hits you with the "You reached yo…

It really amazes how how Youtube refuses to let me hide stuff I don't want to see on my homepage. I still long for the ability to tell them to not give me mix playlists, I do not want them, and often they annoy me when the first song is one I'd click on but I don't want to have to pay attention enough to kill it before the next song plays (since you cannot disable play next in playlists...)

Youtube has added random people's text posts to my subscription feed, and it's pissing me off. They're never anything interesting or entertaining, it's always just gumpf

Re: YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Post by adjejmxbdjdn »

savanaly wrote: post #8

>YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts No it doesn't. If you were hoping it would mean you don't see shorts when you visit the Youtube home page, that's not what this is. I just tried the thing mentioned in the article-- set my Shorts time limit to 0 minutes. What it does is make it so if you click a short from somewhere the short plays, but then if you try to swipe to the next one it hits you with the "You reached yo…

I think this might be even worse, psychologically.

You’ve added a “forbidden fruit” element to the Shorts.

Re: YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Post by ChrisRR »

rob74 wrote: post #111
runevault wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really amazes how how Youtube refuses to let me hide stuff I don't want to see on my homepage. I still long for the ability to tell them to not give me mix playlists, I do not want them, and often they annoy me when the first song is one I'd click on but I don't want to have to pay attention enough to kill it before the next song plays (since you cannot disable play next in playlists...)

You see, you think you don't want all those things, but the algorithm knows better. Trust the algorithm!

Search youtube for a thing

> 5 results for your search

> 10 unrelated videos that you've already watched

> An endless stream of unrelated videos

Re: YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Post by tsimionescu »

polshaw wrote: post #148
tsimionescu wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hasn't this always been the case? If a movie or show features product placement, a TV station playing said movie/show doesn't get any of the proceeds from that advertisement, do they?

These are not product placements, it's as if someone wrote a movie or TV episode literally with an ad break.

I know, but I don't see a fundamental difference. If TV networks are happy to pay for a show that also gets advertising revenue from product placement, I don't see why YouTube would not be happy to deliver ads and pay some percent of that to a channel that displays its own ads. Especially given that YouTube has much, much less cost per video than a traditional network, which can only broadcast one program at a time.

Re: YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes

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Post by LutfuRadu »

insin wrote: post #60

Upvoting because Shorts are terrible. Flagging because the submission title - which is 100% faithful to the friendly article - is a complete lie! Plug: I added a bunch of features to Control Panel for YouTube [1] which let you either hide Shorts completely, everywhere (which is the default) or take more control of how you use them if you do (e.g. redirecting to the normal video player) [1] https://soitis.dev/control-…

Fantastic add-on! I couldn't find an option to hide games ("playables") - did I miss it?

There seems to be a conflict with U block origin on Firefox on Android. The control panel didn't work when U block was on, even after I disabled "block ads" in the panel.

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