(it’s a family subscription, not my decision)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Youtube Revanced
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.
I don’t get the hide option any more. Resistance is futile.
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.
Because no one’s started selling super tall TVs yet?
/s
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
but can you pull as much as batman?
get YouTube revanced, it lets you mostly hide shorts from existence
And judging by the recommendations you’re a fan of Marvel!
I do watch comic book videos once a while but add that to the list too
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.
Just use NewPipe, way better. No ads, no account, no restrictions. You can download videos, save playlists and even subscribe to people still. I’ve only had issues with slow loading with VPN enabled but it really works great. Worth a try.
NewPipe is great but what about desktop?
Weird, mine doesn’t push shorts that hard. But maybe it’s because I watch some here and there?
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.
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.
