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Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by polotics »

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

create a new folder, put two files there:

manifest.json

containing: { "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Hide YouTube Shorts", "version": "1.0", "description": "Hides YouTube Shorts", "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["://www.youtube.com/"], "js": ["content.js"] } ] }

and a file named content.js

containing:

function hideShorts() { const shorts = document.querySelectorAll('ytd-rich-shelf-renderer[is-shorts]'); shorts.forEach(short => { short.style.display = 'none'; }); } hideShorts(); const observer = new MutationObserver(hideShorts); observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });

add the contents of this folder as a chrome extension

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by WorldPeas »

codedokode wrote: post #77
Maken wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But how else are they going to compete with TikTok?

I notice that many short videos seem to be simply cuts from longer videos posted to promote them. So they were not made for short video section and just try to misuse short videos to increase long video visibility.

I did watch a few shorts out of curiosity and it seems they're just "stream clips" most of the time

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by s3p »

jackcooper wrote: post #147
dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

Summary of the proposed solutions to block YouTube Shorts: -Enhancer for YouTube extension (Firefox) — mopsi -Unhook extension (Chrome/Firefox) — jabroni_salad, kelvinjps10 -YouTube-shorts block add-on — timbit42 -ReVanced for mobile — kelvinjps10 -Shorts filter list in Brave browser (works on mobile) — my personal favorite

Thank you so much for this. I hate YT Shorts but never thought to look for extensions to block them.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by dvngnt_ »

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

I had to switch to freetube which is a much better experience

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by jaydenmilne »

II2II wrote: post #64

On the extrapolation to zero videos by September 2026: it is already here. Seriously. Clear your cookies or open a private window. All of the videos are replaced by the message "Try searching to get started". Granted, as someone who clears cookies regularly, I like the change.

"Feed Me Seymour"

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by xigoi »

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

Use the NewPipe Android app.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by EvanAnderson »

voytec wrote: post #18

FYI: YouTube provides RSS feed for every channel. The URL is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID And without downloading with yt-dlp, videos can be watched from youtube-nocookie.com in full-window mode (no distractions) under: https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

Pssst! Keep this on the down-low or they'll take all of this away from us. >smileSeriously, though, w/o RSS feeds Youtube would be completely useless to me. I keep waiting for Google to kill them.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

kryptiskt wrote: post #176
pier25 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. I HATE youtube shorts. Not their content (I've never watched one) but how they've infected the whole youtube experience. You search for something and half the results are irrelevant... which includes a ton of shorts.

They are fucking up the product that they are dominating a market with in order to be an also-ran in another market that's hot. It's Windows 8 all over again.

Google is the Microsoft of today.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by conductr »

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

Yes please!!! I too hate Shorts. I hate that I get sucked into them in a downward doom scroll even more. I'd love nothing more than to completely disable it. But, i think this is also why they will never let me.

I also hate that the first one or two short may be relevant to whatever I'm consuming, researching, then it quickly turns into me watching Kill Tony comedians, girls basically naked in the gym, etc. they know my brain basically just turns off and enters the void

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by isoprophlex »

AlienRobot wrote: post #146
dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

I go to TikTok, shorts. I go to Youtube, shorts. I go to Instagram, shorts. I go to Facebook, shorts. I go to Imgur, shorts. I go to Pinterest, no shorts because it only plays 1 video per screen, but on mobile the screen is smaller so, shorts. I go to Reddit, shorts. I go to Bluesky, shorts. I don't go to Twitter. Tumblr is probably the only social media that isn't filled with vertical videos and that has an algorith…

And not to forget god damned linkedin of all place which for me now puts shorts-like content in the feed. Convergent tiktok-ification.
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