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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Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 months agoWhy 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
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
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
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.
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.
thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 9 months ago
Why use the YouTube app? Firefox with ublock, never see an ad again
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 9 months ago
FF with Ublock is not a very comfortable experience. I much prefer Newpipe.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have a Google 1 family account which comes with YouTube Premium.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They really fucked up the user experience for the older user base. Kids love those shorts though.
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.