YouTube recomending shorts to premium

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨deviant1@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

(it’s a family subscription, not my decision)

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Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In addition those short are infuriating to watch, because YouTube takes off most of the video controls. You cant turn on or of closed captions, you can’t jump back or forwards, or even fullscreen the video. Unless you embed it somehwere else. Proving that it’s a deliberate design choise from youtube to gimp the controls. And then people publish tutorials as shorts.

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- normalmighty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Protip for when you do need to reference a short like that: just replace /shorts/ in the url with /v/ and it’ll be a standard youtube video, just in a vertical format.
  
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  - CoffeeDev@lemmy.studio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The Enhancer for YouTube™ plugin has an option to do this automatically.
    
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I configured uBlock Origin to block shorts so I don’t accidentally watch that garbage. I consider it psychological self-defense.

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SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Same. I do not need this media Format on YT.

For anybody wanting to block it via uBlock, here is the code from a previous comment:

www.youtube.com##ytd-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint path[d^="M10 14.65v-5.3L15 12l-5 2.65zm7.77-4.33"]:upward(ytd-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint path[d^="M10 14.65v-5.3L15 12l-5 2.65zm7.77-4.33"]:upward(ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse #dismissible ytd-rich-grid-slim-media[is-short]:upward(ytd-rich-section-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"] .ytd-thumbnail[href^="/shorts/"]:upward(ytd-rich-item-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] .ytd-thumbnail[href^="/shorts/"]:upward(ytd-grid-video-renderer,ytd-rich-item-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-search .ytd-thumbnail[href^="/shorts/"]:upward(ytd-video-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer .ytd-thumbnail[href^="/shorts/"]:upward(ytd-compact-video-renderer,ytd-shelf-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer ytd-reel-shelf-renderer
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-video-renderer .ytd-thumbnail[href^="/shorts/"]:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="channels"] #contents.ytd-reel-shelf-renderer:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="trending"] .ytd-thumbnail[href^="/shorts/"]:upward(ytd-video-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-search #contents ytd-reel-shelf-renderer
m.youtube.com##ytm-reel-shelf-renderer
m.youtube.com##ytm-pivot-bar-renderer div.pivot-shorts:upward(ytm-pivot-bar-item-renderer)
m.youtube.com##ytm-browse ytm-item-section-renderer ytm-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[data-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytm-video-with-context-renderer)
m.youtube.com##ytm-browse ytm-item-section-renderer ytm-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[data-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytm-compact-video-renderer)
m.youtube.com##ytm-search ytm-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[data-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytm-compact-video-renderer)
m.youtube.com##ytm-single-column-watch-next-results-renderer ytm-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer span:has-text(/^(0:\d\d|1:0\d)$/):upward(ytm-video-with-context-renderer)

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sasha@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Thank you.

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the_kalash@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s a lot of rules. I just have those two:

www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#thumbnail[href*=“/shorts”]:upward(7) www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#endpoint[title*=“Shorts”]

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Venomnik0@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Thank you good man!

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JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I feel that way about “stories”. I block everyone’s stories on Facebook and Instagram and I will never use Snapchat because it was made by lowlifes for lowlifes.

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Kinglink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It doesn’t on mine…

But honestly Youtube needs to make it optional if people get shorts, it’s ruined too many channels, and is just a worthless waste of bandwidth. If I wanted shitty clickbait content I’d just go to tiktok in the first place, I’m on Youtube because I’m expecting some quality.

It’s one of the reasons I won’t let that bullshit touch my main channel. Other Youtubers have said they have had massive growth (usually counted in “Views” which they can’t understand isn’t the same thing for both categories) but in general shorts have made me unsubscribe from too many channels for me to even consider it.

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- Greenskye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They just need to pull shorts out into it’s own app. It’s not very often that I’d want to freely mix short 30 second videos in between longer YouTube content. They’re different use cases.
  
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- JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s the problem with literally every company these days. They don’t want to give you the choice. They know what’s best for you and you’re going to like what they give you, that’s the motto.
  
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Pechente@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This reminded me that I’m paying for Youtube Premium and yet the platform is incredibly user-hostile even to paying customers. Fuck them.

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- pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If you haven’t already, read the article Tiktok’s enshittification from Cory Doctorow. This is enshittification in action what YouTube is doing.
  
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- wagesof@links.wageoffsite.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s a thing for every streaming app. You don’t get to chose what to see even if you pay.
  
  Try to find a music streaming service that isn’t shited up with podcasts and audiobooks.
  
  User controlled streaming is not available for any price. The only way is to yohoho and plex it yourself.
  
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  - Pechente@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Already running Plex, though to be fair - it’s not like they can escape enshittifaction either. I will probably switch over to jellyfin at some point.
    
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- 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s owned by Google you know.
  
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- JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Why??? Use Revanced. Google doesn’t need your money and they don’t care about users at all, quit paying them.
  
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guriinii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Youtube Revanced

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fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What’s always maddening about this is we tend to do a kind of communal thing in our household where we all connect to the smart TV and stream short little videos.

But shorts won’t stream. So you’ll see one, want to share it with the group, and be completely unable to do so. Why they are restricted that way I have no idea.

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melonpunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hide for 30 days is not the option I want YouTube. I blocked them on desktop and have trained my brain to ignore them as I use the iOS app.

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- dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t get the hide option any more. Resistance is futile.
  
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Plissken185@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m using Yattee with piped which gives you the option of switching off shorts… such a better user experience than the official app, plus no tracking, ads or sponsors

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ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Most of the longer videos are just shorts stretched out these days anyway.

Some kid found a new check box to tick as a workaround and it’s turned into a 22m video because YouTuBe fAvOuRs LonGeR vIdEoS.

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Louisoix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And judging by the recommendations you’re a fan of Marvel!

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notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
get YouTube revanced, it lets you mostly hide shorts from existence

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Incoherential@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
but can you pull as much as batman?

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deviant1@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I do watch comic book videos once a while but add that to the list too

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KrisND@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Just use NewPipe, way better.

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- TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  NewPipe is great but what about desktop?
  
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sputtersalt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Weird, mine doesn’t push shorts that hard. But maybe it’s because I watch some here and there?

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ItzLiftin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don´t have a problem with shorts, i can just ignore them. What i don´t like about youtube shorts is that youtube started expanding those shorts to be as a 2x2 format like seen in the picture, which takes up most of the space on my screen, unlike the original 2x1 format.

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ThirdNerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have begun to believe that YouTube is trying its best to get me to never use it, ever again. Between the intrusive shorts, the algorithm that recommends the same exact things I’ve either already watched or haven’t watched for the last months despite them showing up all that time, and having to pay to get rid of ads only to live through sponsored ads that seem longer and longer all the time. On my PC I just use newpipe or piped.online, but the family Roku version of YouTube I watch hardly at all now.

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