No, the best decision would be if they allowed us to disable shorts.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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Almost makes up for YouTube Shorts
Shorts are nice when used properly. 60 second videos with no ads, subscription reminder or useless padding to reach 10 minutes? More, please! But channels which just upload excerpts of their recent videos as shorts just clutter my feed.
The player has 0 controls, only vertical videos and you can't even filter them out permanently either. It is also full of low effort garbage spam that muddies search results. There's literally multiple channels that upload the same 5 videos every hour or so, using search terms / tags for other viral topics that have nothing to do with them. It's a fucking disaster.
Use Youtube Enhancer, it’s an extension that lets you permanently hide any existence of shorts.
I know. It just pisses me off that they keep forcing shit down the users throat constantly. It's like the exact opposite of what I want from a video on demand platform. They constantly add bullshit like this, or remove actual features that helped make things the way I want them to. All because the glorious algorithm knows better than me.
Not on TV. Who the fuck wants to watch vertical 60second videos on a 16:9 TV?
It boggles my mind it's forced upon us even on the TV app
Oh dear, please, don't give 'em ideas. lol
After I selected LEAVE HISTORY OFF, it stopped letting me browse and keeps asking me to ENABLE HISTORY. Anything google product has become hostile.
Thanks for the nostalgia. I haven't seen a login YT home feed in years, and I used to be a CC. YT has been a dumpster fire since the lobotomy of 2017.
It's even worse now. It used to have a gigantic "thumbnails" like a size of my middle and index finger combined.
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
Well, no shite. I'll use Chromium without adblock and signed-in account, then. I'll separate my YouTube and personal web browsing... oh wait, Firefox Containers exist.
I'm definitely not going to watch ads if there's no way around them. I'd just move on. The platform has been on a constant downfall for me over the past decade anyway. Most of it is just clickbait shit and the recommendation algorithms became worse and worse too. Same with the search function. They don't even allow you to search for explicit terms using quotation marks anymore and I still don't understand why they did that. All my search results are muddled with unrelated garbage now, often times in front of the stuff I actually want to find.
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
Nice, isn't it?
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
A good move from Youtube for sure.
They need to ban reaction thumbnails ffs
What did youtube do?
You won't get video recommendations on your home feed (and maybe also other parts of youtube) if you have watch history disabled in your google account settings (you request google not to save your watch history).
Why would people want this? How else do you find videos to watch?
I am subscribed to over 100 channels, ranging from daily uploads to 1 video every few months. Frankly I don't need more stuff to watch. When I do want to find something new, it's either a recommendation from a friend, something I saw on a different social media, or something I searched for myself deliberately.
This change isn't a good thing, it's Google trying to pressure more people into giving up more data, but the "threat" of them removing their algorithmically recommended content from my feed is not a threat at all, it's a bonus if anything.