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I am skeptical even the bottom line gains from it. Whenever I click a Short, I am extremely annoyed. The scroll wheel is repurposed to skip the video, rather t

I am skeptical even the bottom line gains from it. Whenever I click a Short, I am extremely annoyed. The scroll wheel is repurposed to skip the video, rather than the typical desktop interaction of going to the description and comments. When that happens, I close the tab and visit some place other than YouTube.

teawrecks 4y ago
The eyes they care about are on mobile, the desktop experience is an afterthought.
andsoitis 4y ago
> Whenever I click a Short, I am extremely annoyed. Why do you keep clicking it?
- rolenthedeep 4y ago
  Because they get inserted into the timeline like normal videos, or maybe there's just one that you really want to watch. By design, it's hard to avoid them entirely.
  - andsoitis 4y ago
    > or maybe there's just one that you really want to watch So in those cases you want them to be there?
  - johnday 4y ago
    Ublock makes it trivial to block the panel. I have a rule set to automatically hide it as if it were an ad (which, in some sense, it is)
    - pleb_nz 4y ago
      That's cool. Pity you can't do this in the mobile app...
      - danuker 4y ago
        I recommend NewPipe instead of the mobile app.
- danuker 4y ago
  I did it like, three times ever. I was curious about the content at some point. Then I remembered why I never click it.
hombre_fatal 4y ago
One thing weird about shorts is how Youtube shows you a horizontal list of shorts it thinks you will like, and I generally do (for me they are recipes and health related). Yet when you click into one and scroll through them, instead of showing you the other shorts on the recommended list, it shows you general trending shorts. Always thought that was weird. In other words you have to click one, then navigate back and click into each other recommendation.
- gs17 4y ago
  I find that bizarre and frustrating too. Why even bother to recommend things if they presume the trending content is good enough for us?
Nextgrid 4y ago
> I am skeptical even the bottom line gains from it. By the time the parent company realises there's no money to be made hosting endless amounts of stupid, repetitive and crappy content aimed at attention-deficient children, bonuses would've been paid and promotions would've been offered - the latter is what drives this crap, not necessarily some hypothetical bottom-line impact that's hard to measure and easy to excuse away should it not pan out.

teawrecks 4y ago

The eyes they care about are on mobile, the desktop experience is an afterthought.

andsoitis 4y ago

> Whenever I click a Short, I am extremely annoyed. Why do you keep clicking it?

rolenthedeep 4y ago
Because they get inserted into the timeline like normal videos, or maybe there's just one that you really want to watch. By design, it's hard to avoid them entirely.
- andsoitis 4y ago
  > or maybe there's just one that you really want to watch So in those cases you want them to be there?
- johnday 4y ago
  Ublock makes it trivial to block the panel. I have a rule set to automatically hide it as if it were an ad (which, in some sense, it is)
  - pleb_nz 4y ago
    That's cool. Pity you can't do this in the mobile app...
    - danuker 4y ago
      I recommend NewPipe instead of the mobile app.
danuker 4y ago
I did it like, three times ever. I was curious about the content at some point. Then I remembered why I never click it.

hombre_fatal 4y ago

One thing weird about shorts is how Youtube shows you a horizontal list of shorts it thinks you will like, and I generally do (for me they are recipes and health related). Yet when you click into one and scroll through them, instead of showing you the other shorts on the recommended list, it shows you general trending shorts. Always thought that was weird. In other words you have to click one, then navigate back and click into each other recommendation.

gs17 4y ago
I find that bizarre and frustrating too. Why even bother to recommend things if they presume the trending content is good enough for us?

Nextgrid 4y ago

> I am skeptical even the bottom line gains from it. By the time the parent company realises there's no money to be made hosting endless amounts of stupid, repetitive and crappy content aimed at attention-deficient children, bonuses would've been paid and promotions would've been offered - the latter is what drives this crap, not necessarily some hypothetical bottom-line impact that's hard to measure and easy to excuse away should it not pan out.