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1525 points saeedesmaili | 5 comments | | HN request time: 0.762s | source
1. eadmund ◴[] No.43654851[source]
> YouTube. YouTube: Once a video catalog with social discovery. Now? TikTok.

I hate YouTube Shorts with a passion. They are low-effort engagement bait. They cannot be disabled.

Even worse, my Google TV will not play them when my phone is connected to it, and my phone will not play them when it is connected to my TV. Both devices can play them fine, they just don’t want to play them when they are connected.

There can be no good technical reason for this. It’s just delivering a bad experience because it can.

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2. dcrazy ◴[] No.43654949[source]
Many channels seem to use Shorts as a vehicle to get you to their long-form content. I don’t mind that as a discovery mechanism; it’s introduced me to some fun stuff. Other channels make Shorts-specific content, which I really dislike.
3. lern_too_spel ◴[] No.43655231[source]
> They cannot be disabled.

https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/156lw72/the_be...

4. barbazoo ◴[] No.43655415[source]
> They cannot be disabled

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtu...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

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5. eadmund ◴[] No.43655671[source]
I want to disable them in the phone and TV apps. I haven’t used YouTube in the browser much for almost a decade! It’s kind of surprising to me.