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I uninstalled TikTok because it turned into a time-wasting attention sink. I'm fine with YouTube proper, but YouTube Shorts is essentially TikTok in a trenchco

by ipsin 3y ago

I uninstalled TikTok because it turned into a time-wasting attention sink. I'm fine with YouTube proper, but YouTube Shorts is essentially TikTok in a trenchcoat. There really, really, really needs to be a way to banish YouTube Shorts in your settings, because for me the alternative is uninstalling YouTube.

SkyMarshal 3y ago
You can banish YT shorts by clicking the X in the top right corner of the shorts row. And yeah they’re pretty stupid. YT took a bunch of normal videos and cropped them to phone camera dimensions, lol. You can click the author’s name to find the original in their YT page. It’s just idiotic.
- jollyjerry 3y ago
  It comes back for me. Super annoying
- Gareth321 3y ago
  They have disabled that x in my region. I can’t even turn them off temporarily anymore. They are probably rolling out the change in stages to see how much angry feedback they get and how many people cancel.
  - michaelt 3y ago
    I've seen the same thing - it's really tawdry and desperate, isn't it? As I'm running an ad blocker anyway, I created a custom block rule to remove it.
    - Gareth321 3y ago
      I can't wait for the DMA to come into effect in the EU. I want to install a third party YouTube frontend with SponsorBlock and no shorts.
m_0x 3y ago
>the alternative is uninstalling YouTube I assume you're an iPhone user. In Android we don't even have that alternative (at least not out-of-the-box)
- samridh90 3y ago
  You can disable the YT app on Android. The effect is the same as uninstalling the app. YT links open in the browser, the app tile doesn't show up in the Apps menu. This is what I ended up doing to get over my YT Shorts addiction
  - m_0x 3y ago
    I'll be damn. Thanks!
twicetwice 3y ago
Yup, I've written about this a couple times[0], I cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription—I was otherwise a happy customer!—and switched to NewPipe on Android because I couldn't turn off YouTube Shorts. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36593028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36593028
neom 3y ago
You can block shorts on the web with this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-youtube-shorts/aljlkinhomaaahfdojalfmimeidofpih/related https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-youtube-short... Alternatively, you can change shorts into regular youtube format: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-block/jiaopdjbehhjgokpphdfgmapkobbnmjp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-blo...
HumblyTossed 3y ago
I hate YT Shorts with a passion. But, I understand that I'm not the typical YT consumer. I use it as a tool for learning and not consuming.

by ipsin 3y ago

SkyMarshal 3y ago

You can banish YT shorts by clicking the X in the top right corner of the shorts row. And yeah they’re pretty stupid. YT took a bunch of normal videos and cropped them to phone camera dimensions, lol. You can click the author’s name to find the original in their YT page. It’s just idiotic.

jollyjerry 3y ago
It comes back for me. Super annoying
Gareth321 3y ago
They have disabled that x in my region. I can’t even turn them off temporarily anymore. They are probably rolling out the change in stages to see how much angry feedback they get and how many people cancel.
- michaelt 3y ago
  I've seen the same thing - it's really tawdry and desperate, isn't it? As I'm running an ad blocker anyway, I created a custom block rule to remove it.
  - Gareth321 3y ago
    I can't wait for the DMA to come into effect in the EU. I want to install a third party YouTube frontend with SponsorBlock and no shorts.

m_0x 3y ago

>the alternative is uninstalling YouTube I assume you're an iPhone user. In Android we don't even have that alternative (at least not out-of-the-box)

samridh90 3y ago
You can disable the YT app on Android. The effect is the same as uninstalling the app. YT links open in the browser, the app tile doesn't show up in the Apps menu. This is what I ended up doing to get over my YT Shorts addiction
- m_0x 3y ago
  I'll be damn. Thanks!

twicetwice 3y ago

Yup, I've written about this a couple times[0], I cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription—I was otherwise a happy customer!—and switched to NewPipe on Android because I couldn't turn off YouTube Shorts. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36593028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36593028

neom 3y ago

You can block shorts on the web with this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-youtube-shorts/aljlkinhomaaahfdojalfmimeidofpih/related https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-youtube-short... Alternatively, you can change shorts into regular youtube format: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-block/jiaopdjbehhjgokpphdfgmapkobbnmjp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-blo...

HumblyTossed 3y ago

I hate YT Shorts with a passion. But, I understand that I'm not the typical YT consumer. I use it as a tool for learning and not consuming.