Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube

Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TheGreatFox@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m using some custom ublock origin filters that I found somewhere to block shorts across all of youtube:

  !Youtube Shorts
  www.youtube.com###guide-content #endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-guide-entry-renderer)
  www.youtube.com###items #endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer)
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse #dismissible ytd-rich-grid-slim-media[is-short]:upward(ytd-rich-section-renderer)
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-grid-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
  www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
  www.youtube.com##ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer ytd-compact-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-video-renderer span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer)
  

  Also separately, for blocking videos that don’t exist yet, which I also dislike:

  !Youtube upcoming videos
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-grid-video-renderer:has(ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[overlay-style="UPCOMING"])
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[overlay-style="UPCOMING"])
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-video-renderer ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[overlay-style="UPCOMING"]:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer)
  

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  • Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s talking about smart tv app. If those “shorts” are being pulled from some other subdomain then perhaps a block rule on that domain set on the router would help. But best just not to use youtube.

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    • zurohki@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure shorts are just Youtube videos but with a different UI.

      You can take the video ID from the URL of a Shorts clip and put it in a normal Youtube URL and the shorts video plays with the normal Youtube player.

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      • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Basically.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know what I would do with this. And I mentioned to someone else that I mostly watch YT on a Shield. Is this even relevant to me?

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• S_H_K@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surprising no one jumped onto you with thw revanced suggestions.

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• somedaysoon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  SmartTubeNext. You can turn shorts off. It blocks ads. And it has sponsorblock so it is configurable to additionally skip sponsor segments, self-promotion, intros, outros.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I might have to look into that. I do wonder how it could know when a segment is sponsored.

    I don’t care that much about the ads since we already have Premium so we don’t see the ads anyways.

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    • somedaysoon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s crowdsourced and works quite well, been using it for the last year.

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      • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks for the heads up

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What I want is a YouTube viewer that cuts out ads that I can use on my Mac or my iPhone to use on my TV with a Chromecast.

    Chromecast is how I view all my TV content.

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    • CmdrMoto@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Check out ghcr.io/nichobi/sponsorblockcast - run it on your LAN, and it’ll use SponsorBlock to clean up any YouTube-Chromecast stream you want.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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      • CmdrMoto@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And of course the thing I mentioned has now been superseded by github.com/gabe565/CastSponsorSkip

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• CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a little hidden button on the Shorts pane that you can see when you hover it. It gives you the ability to hide them for 30 days if you click it.

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    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’ve started putting them in the recommended videos pane on the right when playing videos in a browser. Worst of all, they put it near the top and in a much larger cell than the rest of the recommended videos.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I watch YouTube mostly on my TV (using a Shield) so I don’t think that would work for me.

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    • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But the Shield was specifically bought to stream.

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