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Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] -3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I simply prefer TikTok for short form videos due to unique community and reasonably entertaining algorithm.

I enjoy YouTube to the point of paying for Premium but I hate that my YouTube subscriptions feed on TV is littered with shorts that I have no way of disabling other than hiding them one by one (which I do to make a point).

Suits at Google will try to shove it into everyone's throats until they get bored and someone adds it to killedbygoogle.com so why would anyone even bother with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This is why I use LibreTube. It just filters all the Shorts

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm deep in Apple ecosystem and unfortunately this is not an option on Apple TV as far as I know.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    You should consider leaving.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    In case of Apple TV, it's the smoothest TV software experience, leaps and bounds above any ad-ridden smart TV or aging Nvidia Shield. I used Android TV and it's just jank. For a time I had HTPC with Kodi too, it's been relegated to hosting Plex and downloading stuff from Usenet. I enjoyed freedom to install anything but ultimately this didn't outweight better audio codec support on Apple TV.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    ad-ridden smart TV

    Oh the irony...

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not sure what you're making a stab at.

    Apple software is obviously ad free and I have no problem with paying for YouTube Premium due to value it provides. Some good soul on Lemmy also recommended me a way to block sponsored content via isponsorblocktv which is a script that runs on my server and skips sponsored segments by reading YouTube app state and sending fast forward commands like a remote would.

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