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Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by jiggawatts »

homefree wrote: post #220
dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

The annoying bit is similar to reels, shorts are good for engagement. It’s similar to why I don’t buy Oreos. I like Oreos, everyone likes Oreos - they’re engineered to be liked, but they’re bad for you. The best way to not eat them is to not have them in the house. Short form videos are the heroin of media consumption - meta having to pivot instagram to it is because they’re facing competitive pressure. Same with You…

That’s nothing: YouTube has recently added shorts to YouTube Kids and it can’t be disabled.

They previously had a whitelist feature where parents could curate channels and videos for their kids.

That has been silently broken and all related features are disabled or non-functional.

Whoever is pushing Shorts is the equivalent of a drug dealer waiting outside a junior school to sell heroin to kids.

Sociopaths do this kind of thing.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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godelski wrote: post #563
behringer wrote: post #519

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Careful there are programmers here watching. Pretend to like the bird.

> Careful there are programmers here watching Why would you be on HN if you weren't a programmer? And good! Fix your shit. Take some god damn pride in your work! Just because all code is shit doesn't mean it can be infinitely shitty.

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Post by bryanhogan »

scubbo wrote: post #157
bryanhogan wrote: post #85

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I'm happy with the extensions that I've been using, makes using YouTube much better and protects me from the wonderful world of "Shorts".

Would you share those extensions so that other people can join you in this good situation?

Using uBlock, DeArrow and Sponsorblock.

And, Android also has some really nice clients.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by jaarse »

This is most likely to do with changing viewing habits. Very little YouTube is watched on a monitor anymore. In fact for most channels it is 40% mobile, 40% on a TV and 20% other. I’m guessing the new format is to optimize for the TV viewer as this is also the fastest growing segment.

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Post by seadan83 »

curtis3389 wrote: post #544
behringer wrote: post #519

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Careful there are programmers here watching. Pretend to like the bird.

Hey! Don't blame us programmers for new features! We don't usually write the user stories!

Nothing like a "dev process" where the developers do not actually participate.

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Post by cco »

parsimo2010 wrote: post #503
rozab wrote: post #46

For a long time the grid of videos on the homepage has been slightly misaligned. I imagine the different rows belong to different teams. This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over. I find the autoplay so annoying because it hides the thumbnail which was carefully designed to communicate why I should click on the video and replaces…

> you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over This might be intentional. Depending on how they calculate a view, this means they can pump up their stats they use to sell ads by making you "view" more videos than you actually click on. I like the previews TBH. If you turn on sound in the preview, you can watch part of a video without seeing an…

100% what I was going to say. Some team's dashboard somewhere has "number of auto plays" and it's an important metric for them.

Or your theory and its view fraud for ad or metric purposes.

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Post by ars »

pier25 wrote: post #99
dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

Same. I HATE youtube shorts. Not their content (I've never watched one) but how they've infected the whole youtube experience. You search for something and half the results are irrelevant... which includes a ton of shorts.

>I HATE youtube shorts.

This guys posts only shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@hydronyc and he's got the best/funniest plumbing video you YouTube.

The bad shorts are when you scroll to the next short after watching one - never do that, only watch shorts from subscriptions.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by homefree »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #521
homefree wrote: post #482

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This is the correct model. If you want your own home you can use something like Urbit. Generally in the web as it is, we are all serfs on other people’s computers.

In my analogy, YouTube was the grocery store, not my home. I don't think of it as a place that I own, but a place that I go shopping for vegetables (educational long-form content). I already made the decision not to enter the candy store on the same block (TikTok), and while I accept that the grocery store sells candy too, I would find it intolerable for them to be following me around waving Oreos in my face as I bro…

They’re all fighting for the finite amount of attention - literally hours you are awake.

That’s a very competitive arena and while you and I may be health conscious - they’re fighting a trench war, you and I don’t matter.

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Post by stephen_g »

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

Yes, and I also want to permanently disable hover to autoplay on desktop / 'video previews' on mobile browser. It's stored locally in the browser and is forgotten about every four days for me.

I hate that 'feature' so much.

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