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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by lavela »

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.

You can do it by using a feed reader and subscribing to the channels rss feeds. Keeps you better isolated from dark patterns as well.

edit: has the added benefit that there are different feeds for All/Videos/Shorts/Live/Specific Playlists, so this is another way to avoid shorts

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by ekipan »

Oh, it's a list you can add to your uBO. I thought it was a descriptive headline: "(The) uBlock filter list (is going) to hide ..."

I only watch Youtube via browser now for both adblocking and my own custom userscripts, both on my laptop and my phone. A couple creators I watch mostly do shorts so I tolerate them but I wrote a userscript that changes all /shorts/ URLs into normal /watch?v= to lessen the temptation to doomscroll.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by dinkleberg »

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.

And the community posts and polls from random communities you have no interest in and don’t give you the same “don’t show me content from this channel”

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by nextaccountic »

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 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.

This should be illegal..

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by Gigachad »

phero_cnstrcts wrote: post #132
AlexandrB wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It makes them less annoying. With premium if you hit the scrub forward button once it jumps directly to the end of the sponsor section

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by jmathai »

testfrequency wrote: post #113
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…

YT is desperate for me to engage with rage bait news, and I’m not biting. It’s so god damn annoying, regardless of how often I choose to ignore channels or don’t suggest feedback. All they care about is vote time…give me content I want to view! Also, in the evenings, my timeline gets weirdly paranoid phobia centric, like deep insecurities people live with that are triggering and keep you up late. It’s so obvious YT i…

Turn off history. Completely disables the food. The only content you see is what you search for.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by dylan604 »

rconti wrote: post #135
api wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> You'd think they'd want to notice that I _absolutely never_ watch shorts, and stop showing them to me, instead recommending something else.

Oh they've noticed, and they just haven't found the right recco just yet to get you to watch. Bear with them, as they will eventually find you something. Even if it is just a video you would normally watched cropped to format.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by plasma_beam »

testfrequency wrote: post #113
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…

YT is desperate for me to engage with rage bait news, and I’m not biting. It’s so god damn annoying, regardless of how often I choose to ignore channels or don’t suggest feedback. All they care about is vote time…give me content I want to view! Also, in the evenings, my timeline gets weirdly paranoid phobia centric, like deep insecurities people live with that are triggering and keep you up late. It’s so obvious YT i…

I only use YouTube with my watch history set to off. So there is no feed, and I only see updates from channels I actually subscribed to. If I want to see some random crap I go search for it but it’s a clean slate next time I open the app. I have found this method of using YouTube to be extremely useful.
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