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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by ckosidows »

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…

Turn off your watch history. It stops all shorts except from your subscriptions.

If they remove this, I will surely be done with YouTube. I was so desperate to disable shorts and ready to be done with the app, but then I learned that disabling watch history pretty much perfectly allows me to use the app how I want to.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by RsAaNtDoYsIhSi »

da_chicken wrote: post #217
mostlysimilar wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube is social media first, even if it also happens to be a repository of useful content. Social media does not want you to navigate with agency. They want to choose what you see because it lets them keep you on the platform longer, which is the entire goal.

No, that's like calling Amazon a social media platform. YouTube is a content delivery platform that has social media features. You can tell because if you shut off all the comments, people still visit the site in droves. But if you shut off the videos and left the comments then nobody would visit the site at all. Now, it's possible that YouTube doesn't realize that, but I think they're just unwilling to make any chan…

YouTube used to have direct messages until 2019.

Reimplemented in Nov 2025 for Ireland and Poland.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by RsAaNtDoYsIhSi »

SoftTalker wrote: post #216
calmbonsai wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Or they just launch another channel. I've had to block about a dozen channels by that bald bearded guy with the glasses.

The one with the really high quality crystal methamphetamine?

I actually liked him before he got gakked on the sauce.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by matt-attack »

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…

Since the beginning of Youtube, it has always struck my as reeking of such desperation to keep you hooked. Just the idea that you're watching a video, and there is simultaneously a list of 10 OTHER videos right next to the view. Most have become so numbed to that, but if you step back you should find it just such a sign of desperation to hook you (is the best way I can put it).

Before a video is even over, they have to plaster the video window with MORE VIDEOS. "Here try this, what about this other thing, here have you considered this?"

My mind is always "I haven't even digested this one video and you're already PUSHING MORE!"

When my kids are over my shoulder on YouTube I'm constantly zooming in w/ Mac zoom to obscure the other videos, the other spam, etc.

Just learn to absorb and soak in one thing. And digest it for a moment.

It's all so obnoxious and it's now the norm.

FWIW, I only ever login in a fresh private window.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by slater »

SoftTalker wrote: post #216
calmbonsai wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Or they just launch another channel. I've had to block about a dozen channels by that bald bearded guy with the glasses.

VS__ce?

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by pseudohadamard »

wilg wrote: post #194
joelthelion wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By paying for youtube, you're supporting Google and walled gardens more than creators, I'd argue.

Not financially, since creators get 55% of YouTube premium fees.

Look at it the other way round, Google takes nearly half of their income, where they're putting a huge amount of time and energy into creating content while Google's contribution is hosting the data on a server. It also reinforces the YouTube hostage situation where content creators can't afford to leave the abusive relationship because they'll lose most of the income that Google isn't already taking off them.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by I_like_tomato »

susam wrote: post #166
susam wrote: post #73

I wrote this little quick and dirty userscript for myself sometime back: // ==UserScript== // @name No Shorts // @match https://www.youtube.com/shorts/* // @match https://www.facebook.com/reel/* // ==/UserScript== window.document.body.innerHTML = '' This isn't as comprehensive as the uBlock filter but it has worked pretty well for me so far.

Here is another one I found in my personal userscripts. I believe this script is more effective than my previous one because it prevents recommendations for Shorts or other videos from being shown. // ==UserScript== // @name No YT Sidebar and Shorts // @match https://www.youtube.com/* // ==/UserScript== function noYTSidebar () { const element = document.getElementById('secondary') if (element === null) { window.setTi…

This is what I used, they have field `is-short`, https://github.com/epicseven-cup/remove-youtube-short/blob/m...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-youtub...

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by tsoukase »

Many stuff are addictive, some legal (smoking, gambling), some legal with prescription (drugs) and some illigal (opioids). Infinite scrolling, either video only (yt shorts) or mixed content lies in the first category. This is a war one fights by himself as law doesn't helps with gatekeeping. Any weapon that helps me is welcome. Filtering the content that whould otherwise polute my screen space and distract me from the useful content is desirable. In Homer Iliad, Ulysses ordered his sailors to tie him up in order to withstand the voice of Sirens, while they were wearing earplugs. Today we have uBlock.
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