| ▲ | dav43 9 hours ago |
| It’s crazy you can pay for premium, which is not cheap, and you can’t disable shorts. The number of times I clicked “show less” and it has zero effect on the number of shorts. |
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| ▲ | chrneu 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| "Enhancer For Youtube" is a firefox extension that disables much of the nonsense in Youtube's UI. I can't use youtube without it anymore. There might be a chrome version? Idk, using chrome with youtube is dumb af tho so probably don't do that. |
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| ▲ | com2kid 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Shorts are up to 3 minutes long now. At this point they are just vertical videos. I fully expect the supported length to keep increasing! |
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| ▲ | mcmoor 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Vertical videos with much shitter UI. Inability to skip ahead or turn back may be understandable for <30 second videos, but not more. | | |
| ▲ | ringer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Shorts are normal videos too, so you can view them in the normal player. I have a redirect rule that redirects https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<video-id> to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video-id> | |
| ▲ | tpxl 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Ctrl + Right click, Show controls will bring up the classic controls (play, pause, volume, seek, full screen) on Firefox. I'm sure other browsers have something similar. Haven't found a way to turn this on permanently for all videos though :/ | |
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| ▲ | Dylan16807 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They put seek controls on them quite a while back. | |
| ▲ | joe_guy 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And auto repeat, sadly. | | |
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| ▲ | k4rli an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | All vertical videos I've uploaded have automatically turned into shorts and there doesn't seem to be a way to toggle this. | |
| ▲ | ares623 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | New prophecy just dropped |
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| ▲ | tarxvf 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you disable watch history, youtube tries to "punish" you by disabling nearly the non-subscription recommendations and shorts not from your subscriptions and a number of other things. Worth a try. |
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| ▲ | RulerOf 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What's crazy is that I can't turn them off for my children. I complain about it to Google. They ignore it. They couldn't possibly give a shit. I should probably complain to my congressman. Who also won't do shit even if they actually give a shit. |
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| ▲ | typeofhuman 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | You could just not let your kids go on YouTube. There's a long history of people not using it. Most people today don't use it. | | |
| ▲ | aidenn0 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | I successfully kept my kids off of YouTube until their elementary school gave them Chromebooks. Then they were at least only on YouTube during class. |
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| ▲ | preinheimer 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ive installed a browser extension to remove them on the desktop. There should absolutely be a better answer here. |
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| ▲ | sidrag22 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | maybe there will be another tier of youtube premium in a few years that removes shorts, and people can try to guilt you for blocking them using browser extensions like they do for ad blocking. |
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| ▲ | JAlexoid 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don't even see any shorts, unless I click the shorts tab on the web. In the Android app it's literally just one line, which I have to scroll down to... like two pages. |
