The “Unhook” addon (increasingly required for Youtube now, in my opinion) will still completely block this as it blocks all shorts. Fuck shorts anyway. Also as TechnologyConnections pointed out in a recent video, the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube’s recommended brainrot anyway and allows you to subscribe to and follow the creators and topics you actually care about. Until we have a viable alternative to Youtube (and hopefully stuff like this will drive that to happen sooner rather than later) the other option is to stick to subscriptions as much as possible and only subscribe to creators that don’t abuse this or use shorts at all, preferably.
Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It absolutely blew my mind when TechnologyConnections shared the % of users who use the subscription page to get to their videos…
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.
Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Me looking at your username !()[c.tenor.com/jHR1_BQ3eF8AAAAC/not-sure-fry.gif]
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
youtube.com/watch?v=LW6RWSiR88s
T156@lemmy.world 1 day ago
YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.