I hate that on the YouTube mobile app the shorts take up the entirety of your screen when you first open it. Like they really want you to watch shorts over their regular video content. And YouTube shorts still to this day don’t even work. If you open YouTube and watch 50 shorts a day, once a day for a week, after the first day you’ll see like one new short a day. There’s no algorithm, it just shows you the same exact shorts in almost the same exact order over and over again.
I mean I’m not even anti-shorts. Like I like shorts and Reels and such just fine but the YouTube shorts are literally just broken on top of being kinda shitty to begin with.
I keep getting shorts (not anymore i fixed that) when i searched for something and they often feature stuff not related to my search. Like me searching for tubeless bike tire instruction video and the shorts in between are a alien looking dark purple baby and a short where some muslim looking guys are waving a scimitar at a goats neck…like what in the actual fuck does that even do on youtube?
It’s so funny one wanting to become the other, yt went to shit after shorts and tiktok is doing the same.
Why can’t they put shorts somewhere else? I do watch them but I don’t always want them, they clog up results and recommendations so bad
I hate that on the YouTube mobile app the shorts take up the entirety of your screen when you first open it. Like they really want you to watch shorts over their regular video content. And YouTube shorts still to this day don’t even work. If you open YouTube and watch 50 shorts a day, once a day for a week, after the first day you’ll see like one new short a day. There’s no algorithm, it just shows you the same exact shorts in almost the same exact order over and over again.
Why use the YouTube app? Firefox with ublock, never see an ad again
I have a Google 1 family account which comes with YouTube Premium.
FF with Ublock is not a very comfortable experience. I much prefer Newpipe.
They really fucked up the user experience for the older user base. Kids love those shorts though.
I mean I’m not even anti-shorts. Like I like shorts and Reels and such just fine but the YouTube shorts are literally just broken on top of being kinda shitty to begin with.
Boggles the mind. Let’s remove functionality. God I hate the new internet bullshit.
Because everyone thinks they have to offer everything to get more users and increase the bottom line.
They’d rather be a jack of all trades than a specialized expert in a field.
I keep getting shorts (not anymore i fixed that) when i searched for something and they often feature stuff not related to my search. Like me searching for tubeless bike tire instruction video and the shorts in between are a alien looking dark purple baby and a short where some muslim looking guys are waving a scimitar at a goats neck…like what in the actual fuck does that even do on youtube?
Shorts need to be ended imo, so i blocked them.
@Squizzy @yamanii This extension does exactly that (at least on desktop) and stops doom scrolling without removing them entirely: https://github.com/doma-itachi/Youtube-shorts-block
the same but opposite. YT pushes shorts to compete with Tiktok. Tiktok pushes longform content to compete with YT