I almost never watch “shorts” but my suggestions for it seem to have an…uhhh…adult theme. I don’t watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?
My shorts is mostly what I watch on long form and vice versa
Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn?
Submitted 7 months ago by Bell@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
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wildcardology@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
YouTube = Alphabet = Google Search
They know.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 7 months ago
YouTube = Alphabet = Google Search
That, or his ISP.
MTK@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Honestly, I recently created a fake Facebook account and the first things to pop up in the “shorts” was all actual porn (soft but nudity and all) so unlike others I don’t think this MUST be your own doing
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Mine is a bunch of podcast clips and reality TV drama slop.
I guess it suggests whatever is popular in your region?apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m always on a anonymous VPN and for work am never logged in to YouTube and this is the unfiltered garbage I see too on suggested content.
kaine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
YouTube shorts are something I hate so much, that is why I removed them thanks to the extensions available for Firefox.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Never touch the YT homepage. Always went straight to Subscription tab and watch stuff you subscribe to or search for the stuff you want to watch yourself.
the_third@feddit.de 7 months ago
A funny dude from Berlin, Grady from Practical Engineering explaining how a dam remains stable, classic cars, electric car test and of course Hydraulic Press Channel.
Might be you 🤷
Professorozone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Mine’s the same. For some strange reason, full of hot chicks. I also don’t watch shorts. Maybe they know I’m male and figure that will draw me in.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Mine is but it also works for getting clicks on me because monkey brain
Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
There are Firefox extensions to: disable shorts, make your homepage your subscription page.
ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Also revanced can disable shorts on mobile and smart tube next on tv
myxi@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I disabled shorts everywhere. Before I saw your post, I couldn’t even recall YouTube having shorts.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Then why am I not seeing uh … never mind
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
YouTube lately has stopped attempting reccomendations entirely, instead they berate me for having history turned off lmao.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
click on the non-horny ones for thom to stop suggesting it to you
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Jelly- mine is all electronics, home building, and plumbers. Oh yeah, and a bunch of standup comedy.
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes you are.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
The irony is if I had real control over the shorts I’d actually sometimes watch them. But currently YT is trying to force them on me, with no control over which shorts I watch.
TwoCubed@feddit.de 7 months ago
YouTube revanced let’s you disable shorts permanently. Fuck those useless videos, designed to get you addicted. I’m fairly sure consuming too many shorts irreparably damages the brain. Don’t quote me on that but people just stopped fact checking because it takes longer than 20 seconds.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I mostly don’t like how it just feels like YouTube corporate wants me to watch shorts instead of regular videos. I don’t want to be their darling user bowing to the whims of the empire.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 months ago
IDK, I’ve been having decent luck with them lately. After channel banning a bunch of thirst trap and tikthot dance vids, I’m really only seeing cooking/science/D&D shit in my shorts feed.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
There is a part of me that does want to scroll through short form videos, but they’re all run by companies I hate:
- TikTok (eeeeeeewwwwww, I won’t touch them with a 40 foot pole)
- Meta (Just no, why would I want to help Zuck)
- YT (I lost my trust in them with so many other things)
- Snapchat (this is probably the most plausible, as this company is E-tier while the others range from F tier to M tier)
JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My Shorts list is a lot of random Spanish-language stuff. I don’t speak Spanish.
Jhogenbaum@leminal.space 7 months ago
Hahaha. Whoa! So different. Mine is All stand up comedians and military training things and toolmakers DIY stuff.
NeroC_Bass@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I ended up installing an extension that blocked all shorts, most of them are trash waste of time anyways.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Dunno what you are subbing to or your interests but mine are almost always sciency (chemistry/physics), engineering, tech, gaming, IT or comedy related.
NeroC_Bass@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Most of mine were short cropped clips of videos I’ve already seen, so it was a big waste of time having them up.
ready_for_qa@programming.dev 7 months ago
Mine has been programming, world history, and how to. They’ve figured me out.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I never actually log into YouTube so don’t get a tailored feed.
Popular videos all adopt one of several formats for their cover.
Search “house music”. It’s always hot girls.
h3rm17@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It recommends me some of those sometimes, but most of the time my shorts feed is kinda interesting and from people I follow
DODOKING38@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Issue is if you accidentally watch one it will Keep getting recommended, it happened to me with the Dexter TV show.
Keep selecting don’t recommend this channel and maybe watch something else?
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There’s plenty of extensions to block shorts entirely. I’m on YouTube for a good reason. If I was interested in under 10min videos I’d be elsewhere.
Lazhward@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can also just block element with uBlock to get rid of it, no need for an additional extension.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I just deactivated recommendations completely. If I want to watch something new, I’ll just use certain search terms.
ShadowRam@fedia.io 7 months ago
I'm just getting REAL tired of YT recommending these shit channels that have <300 views, <10 thumbs up, and yet have 20k+ subs and their just ripped videos from other sources with obviously AI generated text to voice.
I've reported a few, and YT has removed them.
Here's an example of one,
https://www.youtube.com/@WorldViewtheory973/videosPutting out a video on random topics every 2 hours.
Clbull@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My Instagram and Threads feeds are like that. Not YouTube.
Kaput@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup some days and its annoying. You click on one that you think will be genuinely interesting and if it has any woman being any level of attractive, your feed turn to thirst trap. I like woodworking and outdoors engineerinf Innocent stuff right?. Now I get the most handsome bearded athletic hunk lumberjack that keep posting log splitting videos. Took me a while to realize that it was not about that cool ax head or the wedge technic.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bruh, fuck YouTube, and if you really have to use it use an alternative client. Grayjay has plugins for more apps but there are solely clients with YouTube no adds no shorts and newer with no games
Eyedust@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This. I use Revanced and it hides the shorts shelf and movies by default, so if you’re tutorial hopping you don’t get sidetracked. You can also choose to hide all side related videos, or just the “recommended for you” algorithm. Bonus, it comes with sponsor block built in.
Muffi@programming.dev 7 months ago
Just set up Grayjay because of your comment. The seamless integration of both Patreon and YouTube into the same feed is so good. Thanks a lot!
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t thank me thank the developers
DoctorRoxxo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I downloaded an extension on Firefox that blocks all shorts.
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is there any way to block them on the Xbox app?