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Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by yard2010 »

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…

As the other guy said, it's like having a drug dealer wait outside your house and try to push you some smack. This must be illegal, the fact that it's not illegal must be illegal.

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Post by smw »

tsoukase wrote: post #230

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 th…

This reads like AI slop?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

happymellon wrote: post #271
marginalia_nu wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, as long as you aren't logged in, that's the best you're going to get with cookies or local storage.

Cookies can contain "no".

Cookies don't last forever, certainly not across different browsers. It's why you keep having to accept GDPR policies over and over.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by visarga »

asdff wrote: post #98
malfist wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube search is just broken. Has been for a long long long time. You get 3-4 relevant results and then it just shows you random unrelated crap.

It is better to use google to search youtube via site:youtube.com operator.

Better to use Gemini to search YT, you can just talk to it what you want, and see the videos right there in the chat window. I used this to find well targeted music, it can also review artists and discuss about them not just play music.

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Post by shmageggy »

ulam2 wrote: post #273
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 by using revanced and disabling shorts completely.

I personally solved this by never clicking a short. We don't have to engage with every technology presented to us.

Re: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Post by darkoob12 »

It's just the most horrible thing. The whole idea of YouTube for me was to control what you watch in comparison to traditional TV where they fed you what they wanted. I know people say that you should not click on it but we all how low times in our day that we have exhausted our brain.

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Post by rightbyte »

shmageggy wrote: post #286
ulam2 wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally solved this by using revanced and disabling shorts completely.

I personally solved this by never clicking a short. We don't have to engage with every technology presented to us.

It is hard not to accidently click on shorts when they are interleaved in search results.

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Post by sheept »

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 have a userscript that does this, but one downside is that it refreshes the page, so if I go back in history (eg I misclicked), it resets the recommendation page
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