It’s annoying as hell. I can hide shorts on my shield TV YT app from desktop at 30 day increments. It sucks you can’t just turn them off
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teft@lemmy.world 1 day agoI set up a ublock rule to block shorts. Clutter and inane bullshit is all they are.
dmtalon@infosec.pub 1 day ago
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
ublock can do that? I only watch my friends shorts to help them with views and thumbs, will it block the shorts if I go to the channel and view there, or only on main page?
teft@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It sure can. Click on uBlock’s icon and choose the little eyedropper icon to enter picker mode. Then click on the shorts. In that window that pops up go to the part that says cosmetic filters and click on the top one. I don’t remember exactly which one will remove the shorts but just scroll through those until the shorts are highlighted with a red box. Then click create. That should get rid of them. Until youtube changes the element, which they do. I’ve had to re-do it twice so far this year.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Oh sweet, I’ll be looking at that tonight. Thanks. If it blocks on their page I’ll just disable, watch, reenable, but it sounds like this should only work on the main page. Thanks again
teft@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah, that’s way smarter than my suggestion. Glad I could help.