Comment on TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out

yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why can’t they put shorts somewhere else? I do watch them but I don’t always want them, they clog up results and recommendations so bad

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate that on the YouTube mobile app the shorts take up the entirety of your screen when you first open it.

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    • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why use the YouTube app? Firefox with ublock, never see an ad again

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        FF with Ublock is not a very comfortable experience. I much prefer Newpipe.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have a Google 1 family account which comes with YouTube Premium.

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    • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They really fucked up the user experience for the older user base. Kids love those shorts though.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean I’m not even anti-shorts. Like I like shorts and Reels and such just fine but the YouTube shorts are literally just broken on top of being kinda shitty to begin with.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because everyone thinks they have to offer everything to get more users and increase the bottom line.

    They’d rather be a jack of all trades than a specialized expert in a field.

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  • jack@water.house ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @Squizzy @yamanii This extension does exactly that (at least on desktop) and stops doom scrolling without removing them entirely: https://github.com/doma-itachi/Youtube-shorts-block

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  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I keep getting shorts (not anymore i fixed that) when i searched for something and they often feature stuff not related to my search. Like me searching for tubeless bike tire instruction video and the shorts in between are a alien looking dark purple baby and a short where some muslim looking guys are waving a scimitar at a goats neck…like what in the actual fuck does that even do on youtube?

    Shorts need to be ended imo, so i blocked them.

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• Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the same but opposite. YT pushes shorts to compete with Tiktok. Tiktok pushes longform content to compete with YT

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