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Just don't watch them?
by artninja1988 1y ago
Just don't watch them?
- moi2388 1y agoHow does that remove them?
- exe34 1y agodo you feel a need to stop other people doing things you personally don't like?
- close04 1y agoI want to remove them from my own feed. I want the button that says "hide" or "show fewer shorts" to actually work and ideally hide them forever. I have to play whack-a-mole on the different devices and browsers to try to hide shorts.
- animuchan 1y ago[flagged]
- exe34 1y agoare they making you go on YouTube?
- littlestymaar 1y agoYes? Until content start being published elsewhere it's fair to say we are forced to go to YouTube to access it.
- exe34 1y agowho's forcing you?
- littlestymaar 1y agoEveryone who put mandatory stuff on YouTube and only here. Two last examples I faced recently: - Companies who put their product instruction manual exclusively on YouTube - university curriculum who require you to watch contain that is on YouTube only. Sure I'm free not to buy any manufactured products or not resume my studies, but it's like saying the Gulag was OK because people were free not to criticize Stalin.
- exe34 1y agothe shorts are on the home page for doomscrolling. all the examples above will give you a playlist or will embed the videos in their pages. I don't see how shorts on the home page are a problem here? could you clarify please?
- littlestymaar 1y agoFunny how the “are they making you go on YouTube?” goalpost moved.
- exe34 1y ago"going on YouTube" and complaining about shorts made it sound like you were going to the home page where shorts are shown as an option. going on YouTube to watch a single video from a manual is a very different thing. I didn't move the goal post, I pointed out your motte and bailey position.
- moi2388 1y agoYes. That’s the basis of literally every law and regulation known to man.
- exe34 1y agothank goodness that in some countries we have the concept of a private life, where you don't have to like what we do and you can't stop it.
- moi2388 1y agoI can’t reply to your other comment so I’ll do it here. Article 8 can be revoked for public safety, prevention of disorder or crime, protection of the rights of other people, but also for the protection of health and morals. Given the problems with attention spans in systems like TikTok and shorts, they definitely could ban it even given article 8. Sorry to burst your bubble.
- exe34 1y agoI was explaining the idea of a private life, sorry it went over your head.
- moi2388 1y agoBecause there is a law that says I can’t do that? Gotcha xD
- exe34 1y agoArticle 8 of the ECHR.
- globular-toast 1y agoJust don't smoke/eat junk/do drugs etc. They put addictive shit in your face and force you to use their bloated interface to access the service.
- mschuster91 1y agoThe worst thing for me is they don't show the channel names. So much of the channels pushing Star Wars shorts are quite obvious bot names, and it's hard to filter these from legitimate SW content creators who are, on top of that, all using the same damn AI voice.
- sfn42 1y agoIf I hear an AI voice I click the little menu button with three dots, then click don't show this channel or whatever it says. The Venn diagram of AI voice users and good content creators is pretty close to two separate circles. I don't really care about the minority in the intersection.
- mablopoule 1y agoExcept that now Youtube also "helpfully" auto-dub legitimate videos in other languages (along with translating the titles) by default, so even the 'AI voice' isn't a good signal for gauging if it's quality content or not. As a french-speaking person, I now find myself seeing french youtubers seemingly posting videos with english titles and robotic voice, before realizing that it's Youtube being stupid again. What's more infuriating is that it's legitimately at heart a cool feature, just executed in the most brain-dead way possible, by making it opt-out and without the ability to specify known languages.
- sfn42 1y agoThat's gonna have to be the content creators' and YouTube's problem, I don't care.
- meowface 1y ago
- seb1204 1y agoEasy on the website. Very click and swipe intensive on the phone in my opinion. Shorts are front and centre of the app and the search screens. I don't see any feed of suggested videos anymore.
- alex1138 1y agoThis is a very common response where users acquiesce to an internet of mediocrity rather than demanding the corporations do better I mostly don't watch them. But they literally spam every single search. (While we're at it, Youtube also isn't very good at honoring keywords in searches either)