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anyone on ios, i recommend unwatched. this has shorts turned off by default and its great and ad free with sponsor block
I’m not getting the options to set them to 0 minutes. 15 min is the minimum. Guess Google realised their new setting to pay lip service to how much they respect their users’ time proved a bit too popular for their taste…
Fuck that. Newpipe baby.
in 10 years we will probably get an option to hide feed altogether and forward users to their subscriptions.
I absolutely hate that my subscription page is basically just recommendations and shorts at the top that I have to scroll past.
Me on new pipe and invidious:
That’s not the face I make. Usually there’s more eyebrow commotion going on as I try to figure out why it’s taking so long to load the video or why I’m getting some random error message that means nothing to a rando trying to watch a video on their phone.
If that’s on newpipe, try pipepipe. The devs hard forked a long while ago from newpipe and I only get problems only when YouTube does some new shit they try to block. The devs updates relatively quickly
But it’s not a fair anecdote / comparison from me since I haven’t used newpipe for years now
Are you self hosting? Public domains have been getting hit hard
I see a trend of corporations at least trying to deshittify their products a little.
But I have a theory, that there will be a separate app for Shorts, and nobody will use it, unless it will be pre-installed.
I hate that youtube music did that when google music worked better and allowed you to run it without connecting periodically. Now I have Grayjay and a music app I use in graphene, never been happier to listen to the people I subscribe to only and have to go out of my way if I want to doomscroll.
The Youtube Music experience is abysmal for own music upload :( GPM was so good
tl;dr:
App only. Account -> Settings ->Time Management -> Shorts feed limit
Browser: I use a couple plugins to purge sharts from existence. One of them that also does a LOT of customization and usability fixes: https://github.com/code-charity/youtube
Even when set to 0 you’ll still see shorts, it just stops (or limits) the infinite scrolling.
It’s a dark-pattern control just to say they are doing something about it.
It only limits the number of minutes you can death-scroll Shorts. You’re still drinking from the Shorts firehose for up to 15 min, minimum.
You can’t turn shorts off.
Edit: this may be only in the U.S.
Europe here, 15min is minimum.
15 was minimum for me too (I’m in Denmark) a few days ago, but now it’s 0. They’re probably rolling out gradually, just check again in a few days and make sure the app is updated.
I’m already filtering out sharts with various plugins, but I wanted to enable this setting anyway to signal yt to fuck off.
Turns out, 15min is the lowest timer. Can’t turn it off completely
I had 15 mins at the lowest setting a few days ago too. Now it’s 0. I think it’s rolling out gradually, just check it again in a week or so.
The article says that’s the previous limit. So they probably do a staggered rollout
Lowest or longest timer?
lowest
What’s the maximum time you can set it off for?
2 hours
It’s a dark-pattern control just to say they are doing something about it.
It only limits the number of minutes you can death-scroll Shorts. You’re still drinking from the Shorts firehose for up to 15 min, minimum.
You can’t turn shorts off. Edit: this may be only in the U.S.
I don’t have a YouTube account, and have no interest in getting one. I hid shorts with this browser add-on:
On your phone, assuming you use Android, there are many apps that allow disabling shorts.
Can we also turn off community posts? Why am I seeing them from random people I don’t give a shit about. I don’t even want to see them from the people I do care about.
But is there also an option to show only shorts? Real free choice settings would offer that.
Okay now get rid of the in-video ads and AI slop and I might consider actually using a first-party interface again.
uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock works just fine. When it comes to AI content, just ignore it and it’ll dissapear from your recommendations.
For virtually everything wrong with youtube there’s an add-on to fix it or a behavior to change. So many people can’t help but watch short-form content for example and then they complain their feed is all shorts - I wonder why.
I think you may have overlooked the part about “first party interface”.
The youtube website itself isn’t enough “first party” to you?
It is still a first party web interface.
I’ve been using this list for ublock - https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts (see list.txt).
Man, I love shorts. My shit is curated af though. My algorithm is good to me. Mainly science facts, wood working, badminton, web dev tips, comedy, and Rocket League clips. Just what I like.
I love shorts.
They’re comfy and easy to wear.
ChatGPT? Is that you?
It’s a pokémon joke. In the first games there is a kid who has a very random line about his love for shorts, and since then they’ve put someone like him with a similar quote in a lot of games.
lol okay! I haven’t played Pokemon 😅 Thanks for the context!
Do you like and comment on them? I tend not to engage aside from scrolling and it makes me wonder if interacting more would make it better
Yes, I like stuff I want to see more of, dislike stuff I’m not interested in, and I also click “Do not show more from this account” (or whatever the option is) for stuff that I really don’t want more of, like brain rot and braindead politicians and maga personalities and the like.
Do this enough and your algorithm should improve, too. Best of luck!
I love blocking annoying accounts. Not interested in low quality creators that put out 3-4 long form content videos every week and 3 daily shorts.
I heard that. 🤝
Man, I love shorts.
No, this is not true. An independent study originally paid for and later silenced by YouTube scientifically proved that absolutely no-one likes shorts.
🤷♂️ don’t know what to tell you, I watch em all the time, and I don’t find it hard to stop.
Just wait til a single TV show clip catches your interest. Shorts are desperate to get us out of our curated bubbles.
I’m very disciplined 😎😁
