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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by Brian_K_White »

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.

And not even alphabetical. It's ridiculous.

You should see me or my wife sometimes scrolling down this nine miles long single column list on the Roku to find a particular channel. It's in there, it just could be anywhere in there...

They didn't happen to post any new videos lately so they aren't on the main subscriptions page of latest videos, you have to go to the menu on the left to the list of all subscribed channels and just arrow down forever, back up, down again... Why in the ever loving world isn't that list at least alphabetical?

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by madaxe_again »

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.

Because it’s $6 a month where I live and at that price it’s easier than any faffing or arms race with Adblock.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by netsharc »

freehorse wrote: post #65

In addition to the unhook addon that others also recommended and is great, I would also suggest, as an alternative, setting a redirection rule from "www.youtube.com/shorts/XYWZ" to "www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYWZ". This will play the short but in the classical youtube video (landscape) format, with no infinite scrolling, or replay or autoplay (assuming these are in general disabled), which takes away a big part of the…

Replacing "shorts" with "v" also works, so the resulting URL is www.youtube.com/v/XYWZ

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by bluehex »

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 pay mainly because a really like being able to play the videos in iOS pip background mode. I do find it crazy that Apple allows that OS level feature to be paywalled by apps.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by bgro »

There’s a lot of stupid shit garbage on the internet that needs more blocking and nobody’s doing anything about it. Aside from bad JavaScript and css garbage and other things that are obvious and still only slightly blocked by ubo, there’s entire swaths of categories that are going completely untouched.

Every Reddit mod post is cancer for example. So is every pinned post and automod. 99% of email. Any story about farting or buttholes or diarrhea or any other child joke about how you were unable to be in control of your butthole. I don’t want to hear it and every single day there it is. Any pro-terrorism post from jihadist groups like maga, posts from other nations pretending to be Americans, posts asking people to explain a loaded joke they understand but are trying to get more views on or spread the topic about. Any ai video any video about crypto any fake news.

There’s a lot of room for improvement. Even just detecting things like if a news article doesn’t actually contain information. It seems like we have a ton of areas we could be filtering out cancer a lot better.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by JKCalhoun »

bgro wrote: post #205

There’s a lot of stupid shit garbage on the internet that needs more blocking and nobody’s doing anything about it. Aside from bad JavaScript and css garbage and other things that are obvious and still only slightly blocked by ubo, there’s entire swaths of categories that are going completely untouched. Every Reddit mod post is cancer for example. So is every pinned post and automod. 99% of email. Any story about far…

Best I can come up with: people flag shit and it goes to a server, and like PiHole, anyone subscribed to that server will have the crap excised.

I'm liking Apple's "Hide Distracting Items…" feature in Safari. Now if only everyone's audits could be shared, a consensus arrived at, then others could be spared having to spend time hiding-distracting-items themselves.

A kind of HTML shadow banning?

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by akst »

Auto video playback in Twitter/X isn’t much better especially on the mobile app. I realised this can be remedied by switching to the webapp. It’s a subpar user experience due to constraints of mobile web (and lack of investment by X) but it’s also likely why auto video playback rarely works, so it evens out.

Is frustrating I have no control over it s as a paying user, same with hiding the blue checkmark

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by drnick1 »

driverdan wrote: post #182
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.

I'm not OP but I pay because I want to support content creators. It also removes ads from players that don't have blocking, such as Roku. Of course there are other ways to support creators such as donating and buying swag. I do that too.

You are much better off donating money directly or buying merch than further inflating Google's profits.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by drnick1 »

IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #157
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.

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

> YT has started to place its content behind sign-in wall

Any examples of that?

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