| ▲ | exe34 3 days ago |
| do you feel a need to stop other people doing things you personally don't like? |
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| ▲ | close04 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I want to remove them from my own feed. I want the button that says "hide" or "show fewer shorts" to actually work and ideally hide them forever. I have to play whack-a-mole on the different devices and browsers to try to hide shorts. |
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| ▲ | exe34 3 days ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | close04 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Well you aren’t wrong but the attitude isn’t helping. It is my feed as far as it explains to you that it’s not about disabling something for others. It isn’t my feed as far as who actually controls it is concerned. |
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| ▲ | moi2388 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes. That’s the basis of literally every law and regulation known to man. |
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| ▲ | exe34 2 days ago | parent [-] | | thank goodness that in some countries we have the concept of a private life, where you don't have to like what we do and you can't stop it. | | |
| ▲ | moi2388 a day ago | parent [-] | | Because there is a law that says I can’t do that? Gotcha xD |
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| ▲ | animuchan 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | exe34 3 days ago | parent [-] | | are they making you go on YouTube? | | |
| ▲ | animuchan 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | There are barely any alternatives, so yes, when I'm going to Google's or Meta's properties that's largely against my will. They literally make me, where "they" is a large and diverse group of entities. To boycott Google I'd be forced to quit my job for example, as it literally forces me into Google's services. Specifically YouTube has very little in the way of alternatives, but I get what you're saying — I just respectfully disagree with the coping method. Which is to say, on the gradient between "we should suck it up" and "we should Luigi Mangione the person responsible" I fall somewhere in the middle. | |
| ▲ | littlestymaar 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes? Until content start being published elsewhere it's fair to say we are forced to go to YouTube to access it. | | |
| ▲ | exe34 2 days ago | parent [-] | | who's forcing you? | | |
| ▲ | littlestymaar 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Everyone who put mandatory stuff on YouTube and only here. Two last examples I faced recently: - Companies who put their product instruction manual exclusively on YouTube - university curriculum who require you to watch contain that is on YouTube only. Sure I'm free not to buy any manufactured products or not resume my studies, but it's like saying the Gulag was OK because people were free not to criticize Stalin. | | |
| ▲ | exe34 2 days ago | parent [-] | | the shorts are on the home page for doomscrolling. all the examples above will give you a playlist or will embed the videos in their pages. I don't see how shorts on the home page are a problem here? could you clarify please? | | |
| ▲ | littlestymaar 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Funny how the “are they making you go on YouTube?” goalpost moved. | | |
| ▲ | exe34 a day ago | parent [-] | | "going on YouTube" and complaining about shorts made it sound like you were going to the home page where shorts are shown as an option. going on YouTube to watch a single video from a manual is a very different thing. I didn't move the goal post, I pointed out your motte and bailey position. | | |
| ▲ | littlestymaar 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | There no motte, and no bailey, I never talked about shorts in the first place (surprise, there are multiple users on this platform …) I just witnessed your bad faith argument about how people aren't forced to go on YouTube and proved it wrong. The key problem isn't that YouTube has been degrading its user experience for a while, the problem is that we don't have anywhere else to go as YouTube is the most encroached monopoly in the tech scene (which is no small feat). | | |
| ▲ | exe34 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | the whole conversation was about YouTube shorts. I was under the impression you were arguing in good faith - my bad. | | |
| ▲ | littlestymaar 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | The fact the the conversation was previously about shorts doesn't excuse bad faith rhetorical questions like “are they making you go on YouTube?”. The funny thing is that you never gave me a slight bit of impression that you were arguing in good faith, and now you whine about that. | | |
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