I also love how whenever I do a search on Google on my phone I get reminded to use the Google app, or to download chrome, or some other “use our platform please” nag message that only goes away for 24 hours when I tell it to fuck off.
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arc99@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fuck every company that does this. I don’t like YouTube shorts. Can I disable YouTube shorts? No. Instead I can choose to “Show less often” which means absolutely nothing since they reappear in no time. Dark patterns are called that for a reason.
errer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 days ago
I used ublockorigin to block the container for shorts and news. Much better, also set up a redirector that changes shorts URLs into the normal yt format, so that you don’t pulled into that feed.
coolman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you run Android you can block shorts (and ads, and sponsors, and everything else annoying from YouTube)
Check out revanced.app
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
for some reason, the day i choose to download revanced is always the day google updates their security and now i have to wait a month for it to work again. i’m not gonna do that to people again.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yeah, it feels like you’re just a monkey in a science experiment
Dojan@pawb.social 2 days ago
Well… is that so far off?
d3lta19@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
You can disable shorts on desktop
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 days ago
You can install an extension that hides the shorts
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I just picked that part with the ublock eyedropper. All landscape videos for me please.