Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today

DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How do you block them? I keep pressing “show fewer shorts” but they keep popping up and I can’t find an option to block them entirely.

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  • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just used block element in ublock origin. Haven’t seen em since

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    • cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks! This seems to work.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use a plugin on Firefox. I’m not in my desktop right now and I don’t remember the name but it was easy to find if you search “YouTube shorts”

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  • Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Use this on Android: newpipe.net Or this on Android or desktop: grayjay.app/desktop/

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  • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ublock + ff. in ublock select the eye dropper, move the eye dropper over the shorts section until you see the videos and the word shorts highlighted then click to block

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  • MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In addition to what others have said, SmartTube has options to remove them on Android TV devices

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• Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never watched one, never will. Rarely watch YouTube either except the odd music video.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is that opinion because you’re on a phone? They’re OK by me on a PC and big TV. OTOH, if I’m not logged in, the pure shit they shovel at me, yikes.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re designed to keep people with poor impulse control caught in a constant loop of short garbage clips. A bigger screen is not going to change that.

    Also I don’t normally watch YouTube on my phone unless I’m travelling and when I do I use NewPipe.

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I used to hate short form content in principle

  but YT shorts actually shows me content from creators I like. sometimes I like browsing it, because some of that content is well suited to the format rather than dragging it out into a five minute video

  what I fucking HATE is when YouTube opens up to the shorts page and just autoplays. it’s inconsistent and idk why it does that

  now, why the shorts format is here, and we can’t just mix the short videos with the long ones in the same library… idk

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