Me on new pipe and invidious:

I'm already filtering out sharts with various plugins, but I wanted to enable this setting anyway to signal yt to fuck off.

Turns out, 15min is the lowest timer. Can't turn it off completely

tl;dr:

App only. Account -> Settings ->Time Management -> Shorts feed limit

Browser: I use a couple plugins to purge sharts from existence. One of them that also does a LOT of customization and usability fixes: https://github.com/code-charity/youtube

in 10 years we will probably get an option to hide feed altogether and forward users to their subscriptions.

Can we also turn off community posts? Why am I seeing them from random people I don't give a shit about. I don't even want to see them from the people I do care about.

I'm not getting the options to set them to 0 minutes. 15 min is the minimum. Guess Google realised their new setting to pay lip service to how much they respect their users' time proved a bit too popular for their taste...

I don't have a YouTube account, and have no interest in getting one. I hid shorts with this browser add-on:

https://github.com/Vulpelo/hide-youtube-shorts

I see a trend of corporations at least trying to deshittify their products a little.

But I have a theory, that there will be a separate app for Shorts, and nobody will use it, unless it will be pre-installed.

I've been using this list for ublock - https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts (see list.txt).

Hi! I'm one of the few people who enjoy YouTube Shorts.

I don't hate the idea of TikTok, I hate the privacy and political implications. I installed it on my Android phone (already a privacy nightmare) and I didn't hate it. Made an account with a burner email. They send 2-3 emails a day. I didn't get into TikTok per se, but I didn't hate using it. I could have done something about the spammy notifications (which I was getting on my iPhone since I used iCloud's Hide My Email feature), but ultimately I didn't like using it.

Even on my TV, I was fine with the vertical videos. Vertical videos shouldn't be a thing because you can/should turn your phone (and some phones used to make you do it to record video!), but I don't hate that they are a thing. I only don't like footage that is cropped to look like vertical video. It's like Pan & Scan (4:3 video format that slides back and forth along the original video frame as needed, popular on VHS) all over again.

What really fucks me off about YouTube is the AI generated shit. I listen to a lot of Japanese music, so AI generated subtitles are not the worst thing in the world. Thing is, I took this song ("Anima" by ReoNa) and I took several translations, including an AI one, and rolled my own subtitles for the video, taking what I assumed to be the artist's intent and going with the words I thought conveyed her meanings as best I could (not knowing Japanese). Like you can say "konnichiwa" means hello/good day, but when you're talking about a philosophical song about the colour of the soul, asking if a person's bravery or hesitation (bordering on cowardice/fear) makes them brave or not... you're not gonna get a very accurate translation, which is why all the translations suck, including mine. But mine is what I chose to go with and it's about as accurate as the others.

The worst part is the ads, but it only affects my Apple TV box. On my Macs I use Firefox with uBlock Origin. I also have Wipr2, but that only affects Safari. On my iPhone, I use Safari with Wipr2 and it gets most of the ads. On my Android phone, I use Firefox with uBlock Origin. The only place I'm not protected is my Apple TV, which is why my next one will be a gently used Mac mini so I don't have to use the derpy tvOS — though, notably, tvOS itself is the best smart TV interface (no ads, just icons). I think I can make macOS into a better smart TV platform, with just a few icons on the dock and maximum magnification on hover, the highest zoom setting, and whatever else — I haven't really begun planning it yet. But, I think, with a wireless keyboard/mouse combo (like a Logitech K400 or similar, or one of those game controller looking keyboards you can get on Amazon from China), a Mac (or Linux PC) could be the best TV interface. (I'm not ruling out a Raspberry Pi, which kinda seems obvious, I just like Apple stuff.)

Fuck that. Newpipe baby.

Okay now get rid of the in-video ads and AI slop and I might consider actually using a first-party interface again.

Man, I love shorts. My shit is curated af though. My algorithm is good to me. Mainly science facts, wood working, badminton, web dev tips, comedy, and Rocket League clips. Just what I like.

anyone on ios, i recommend unwatched. this has shorts turned off by default and its great and ad free with sponsor block

So many of the shorts I’ve seen are repackaged Tik Tok that it makes sense for YT not to encourage publishing on a competitor first.

mobile only

But is there also an option to show only shorts? Real free choice settings would offer that.

Revanced has had that for YEARS

What about pants?

Not an awful decision.