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uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by s4i »

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…

I personally solved this need with a simple bookmarklet: https://samulisuomi.github.io/youtube-unshortify-bookmarklet...

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #206
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?

> A kind of HTML shadow banning?

A 'Proxomitron', of sorts.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by venusenvy47 »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #169
venusenvy47 wrote: post #163

I'm curious if anyone knows of something like SponsorBlock or a UBlock list, that can flag tje onslaught of AI videos that are appearing. I find those crappy videos worse than the ads and the shorts.

I got an idea. We could use some kind of voting system where user can upvote or downvote YouTube videos, and it shows the rating when someone click on it. It could be as simple as 2 buttons and a percentage bar right under the video, on the right, close to the dislike button that does nothing lol.

This is basically what Sponsorsblock does - it takes crowdsourced inputs to update the info for each video, then automatically skips the parts of the video that we want to avoid. "AIblock" could simply add some indicator of videos to ignore, or maybe just hide them from me.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by susam »

ackyshake wrote: post #248

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…

The CSS is complex indeed. Moreover, the page renders the Shorts widgets after the page has completed loading, so JavaScript-based solutions need to exercise a little care in ensuring that it can hide the distracting elements after the page has loaded. Despite the complexity, I've found that just hiding all elements with the 'ytd-rich-shelf-renderer' class just works fine. For example:

  .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer { display: none }
This single line of CSS seems to just work fine for me.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by golem14 »

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.

At some time you watch one (maybe by mistake,) and then they gotcha.

They are playing the long game.

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Post by Manheim »

marcosscriven wrote: post #11

I’m sure I’ve clicked “show fewer shorts” every single time it’s shown me shorts. It seems to make zero difference.

I have done the same and it seems to have no consequence. I suspect YouTube only wants to track the opposition to shorts, not to provide a personal preference for their users. This uBlock filter is therefore much appreciated
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