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How does that remove them?
by moi2388 1y ago
How 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.
- littlestymaar 1y agoThere no motte, and no bailey, I never talked about shorts in the first place (surprise, there are multiple users on this platform …) I just witnessed your bad faith argument about how people aren't forced to go on YouTube and proved it wrong. The key problem isn't that YouTube has been degrading its user experience for a while, the problem is that we don't have anywhere else to go as YouTube is the most encroached monopoly in the tech scene (which is no small feat).
- animuchan 1y agoThere are barely any alternatives, so yes, when I'm going to Google's or Meta's properties that's largely against my will. They literally make me, where "they" is a large and diverse group of entities. To boycott Google I'd be forced to quit my job for example, as it literally forces me into Google's services. Specifically YouTube has very little in the way of alternatives, but I get what you're saying — I just respectfully disagree with the coping method. Which is to say, on the gradient between "we should suck it up" and "we should Luigi Mangione the person responsible" I fall somewhere in the middle.
- 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.