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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by jtolmar »

davorak wrote: post #186
testfrequency wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 kept having issues like this, with a different kinds of videos, until I scrubbed my history of any of the kinds of videos I did not want. If I click on something I thought I would want to watch and it is the kind of video I do not want recommended to me I immediately delete it from my watch history, block the channel, and some times block that profile from viewing my youtube channel. ~2 years ago I never had to del…

I watch things from unknown-to-me creators in a private window, then copy the URL over to logged in window if it's any good. Same idea, might be an easier workflow.

Absurd that we have these sorts of workarounds, but of course the view numbers are better if it keeps fishing for just the right kind of clickbait trash that you'll wolf it down endlessly.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by wpm »

matt-attack wrote: post #224
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…

I can sympathize a bit with YouTube trying to boost engagement to increase ad views, like, love it or hate it, thats the game they have to play hosting and serving petabytes of video.

But all of that shit should disappear the moment I start paying for it out of pocket. Like, I'm already paying, getting me to watch more videos costs them more money that it would to leave me the fuck alone!

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by sidrag22 »

RGamma wrote: post #131
mog_dev wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you pay for youtube, you are part of the problem

Youtube is far too significant a video collection to risk losing it. Yes there is insane anounts of garbage and yes their history is getting spottier by the day, but nothing else comes close to all of the good stuff that is still on it. Google needs to get its shit together and give users power tools. YT hasn't improved materially for many years now. I hope they can snap out of whatever governance dysfunction they're…

Youtube could vanish from existence tomorrow and I'd probably just be upset that there isn't a place that might show me a 180p 20 year old video of how to properly clean my old dishwasher. I don't really know what these super high value videos are other than those. I really don't know why they must all exist on this one platform either.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by wpm »

drnick1 wrote: post #210
IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

yt-dlp has to have you install an entire JS runtime for it to function now.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by month13 »

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…

YouTube's hostility is truly remarkable, by far the most egregious that the Subscriptions page in the TV app having a dedicated row for "recommendations" and "shorts" before you can proceed.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by VerifiedReports »

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…

And Google whines when people install ad-blockers. It's pathetic.

I was willing to watch ads. But then Google introduced NEVER-ENDING ads, when the program is interrupted frequently and will never return unless you herd it along periodically by clicking Skip. Screw you, Google. I'm cooking, with my hands covered with who knows what, and now I can't watch the program.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by notpushkin »

calmbonsai wrote: post #138

Do not use YouTube to consume YouTube content. FreeTube and yt-dlp are your friends.

I used to use Invidious but it was breaking too often. Nowadays, I just open YouTube in a private window, or use yt-dlp from time to time to watch something later offline.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by ackyshake »

Oh this is amazing, thank you! I tried to make my own but youtube's CSS is so complex, I gave up. I have no idea why they push shorts to me when I'm on my computer. But then again, I really cannot stand them, even on my phone.

I also just discovered a way[1] to just get real videos from my youtube RSS feeds, free from shorts. Honestly it's been a joy to not have my RSS reader notify me for a old video republished as vertical.

[1]: https://blog.amen6.com/blog/2025/01/no-shorts-please-hidden-...

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by notpushkin »

revolvingthrow wrote: post #35
KellyCriterion wrote: post #12

Is this really working on ALL shorts? And if I click on the panel "no more shorts", is this setting then applied continuously?

Nothing’s working on ALL shorts, not for long, because google shakes things up semi-frequently to jam shorts down everybody’s throats To solve it once and for all you’d probably want to extract the length of all displayed videos and hide all that fit within the short’s limits

Idk, I’m using a previous version of this list (the one it was forked from) and it works for me! Didn’t even realize it wasn’t updated.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by vidyesh »

maxxmod wrote: post #231

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Looks great! But all the screenshots are of the settings. It would be nice to see what the end result is after enabling certain features.The preview is not the actual UX. I would like to see how will this tool change my youtube experience.

The reason I like unhook is, it doesn't change or force me to learn new ways to use YouTube but just reduce it to just video viewing with no distractions and blocking all the addictive pulls.

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