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One of my gripes with youtube at the moment is that they break my adblock filters to remove shorts more often than they break the filters stopping the actual ad
by BoxOfRain 8mo ago
One of my gripes with youtube at the moment is that they break my adblock filters to remove shorts more often than they break the filters stopping the actual ads.
- sidharthv 8mo agoI naively searched in the mobile app settings for a way to turn off shorts, before realising there will not be one.
- ffsm8 8mo agoYou can't turn it off entirely, but if you keep using "show less shorts" from the 3 dot menu it eventually goes away, mostly...
- direwolf20 8mo agoIt comes back. It acts like it executed shortiness+=1 every day, and "show fewer shorts" does shortiness-=10 or thereabouts. The shorts position on the home screen is based on this hidden shortiness variable. It always bubbles back to the top unless you keep pressing "show fewer shorts" whenever you see it.
- ffsm8 8mo agoStrange, for me it only comes back up if I get baited into clicking on any short (or have one linked to me)
- mghackerlady 8mo agoIf you're on android it's better to just use revanced or something
- notpushkin 8mo agoYou can use NewPipe or YouTube ReVanced, or set up a “child” account and disable Shorts in the parental restrictions settings.
- satiric 8mo agoI use an addon for firefox called "Hide shorts for Youtube™". Works just fine.
- exq 8mo agoI use this add-on to redirect shorts to the regular video URL. I can still watch them but I don't get the infinite scroll and algorithm pigeon-holing. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/youtube-shorts-block/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/youtube-short...