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I stopped watching short form content last year. I’m not on instagram/X etc, only on YouTube. My only annoyance is that YouTube still insists on shoving them i
by Insanity 9mo ago
I stopped watching short form content last year. I’m not on instagram/X etc, only on YouTube.
My only annoyance is that YouTube still insists on shoving them in my face on the app homepage even though I don’t watch them. It just requires a modicum of willpower now not to click and go down the rabbit hole, which I’ll occasionally fail at.
- jmathai 9mo agoTry to turn off YouTube watch history. You get no feed at all. It’s marvelous.
- lvncelot 9mo agoI blocked them from my suggestions page with ublock origin
- Insanity 9mo agoYeah but that doesn’t work in the app, or does it?
- hmstx 9mo agoIt doesn't. I "worked around" that by setting a 5 minute daily timer for youtube on my phone - just enough to mark a few regular videos as "Watch Later". Gives me an incentive to scroll past the shorts.
- wedg_ 9mo agoI'm on Android and I use "one sec" with "In app distractions" enabled for YouTube. no idea how it works but when I click on the shorts tab or any shorts in my feed (in the app, not website), it immediately gets blocked by a heroic looking polar bear saying "No shorts for you!". I believe it can block some other in app stuff like reels in instagram as well
- Tom1380 9mo agoI suggest to use the browser even on phones and tablets. Once you get used to YouTube with extensions you realise how aggressive and enshittified the app is