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18.. hell I’m close to 40 and I have trouble self regulating. YouTube needs an option to disable shorts. It’s just not healthy. TikTok I won’t even touch it.

• sgt 4y ago
  It's your (our) generation who built all this stuff. We thought it would be "neat".
  • rocketbop 4y ago
    We thought it would be lucrative.
    • barrkel 4y ago
      We thought we had no alternative because if we didn't do it, someone else would, and they'd eat our lunch.
  • account42 4y ago
    It's a very small subset of our generation that built all this stuff.
    • Mezzie 4y ago
      It gives me very big Ariel signing the contract with Ursula vibes. We signed away our integrity for validation and money.
  • dghughes 4y ago
    Millennials blame Boomers for the economy, housing now Gen Z will blame Millennials for inventing social media. :D
• rocketbop 4y ago
  > YouTube needs an option to disable shorts. It’s just not healthy. I have disabled them along with suggestions with a browser extension, but the temp station is always there to enable again even briefly. Shorts are particularly addictive and must play hell with our dopamine receptors.
• chongli 4y ago
  Install a userscripts extension in your browser and with that install a userscript such as Focused YouTube [1]. I did and never looked back! I want nothing to do with TikTok or YouTube shorts. I watch long-form videos on science, math, and engineering topics for the most part. [1] https://github.com/KervynH/Focused-YouTube https://github.com/KervynH/Focused-YouTube
  • uptownfunk 4y ago
    Does this work for mobile?
    • Levitz 4y ago
      Firefox started supporting userscripts through Tampermonkey a couple of months ago.