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AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 96 points 1 year ago (4 children)

YouTube shorts are cancer already. I've had them blocked ever since they appeared.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How do you block them? I keep pressing "show fewer shorts" but they keep popping up and I can't find an option to block them entirely.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I used to hate short form content in principle

    but YT shorts actually shows me content from creators I like. sometimes I like browsing it, because some of that content is well suited to the format rather than dragging it out into a five minute video

    what I fucking HATE is when YouTube opens up to the shorts page and just autoplays. it's inconsistent and idk why it does that

    now, why the shorts format is here, and we can't just mix the short videos with the long ones in the same library... idk

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is that opinion because you're on a phone? They're OK by me on a PC and big TV. OTOH, if I'm not logged in, the pure shit they shovel at me, yikes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They're designed to keep people with poor impulse control caught in a constant loop of short garbage clips. A bigger screen is not going to change that.

    Also I don't normally watch YouTube on my phone unless I'm travelling and when I do I use NewPipe.

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