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FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

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269 points youz | 2 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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CaptainOfCoit ◴[23 Oct 25 22:40 UTC] No.45688303[source]▶
I find it slightly ironic that that statements ends with "YouTube Shorts" and not just "YouTube". What in particular makes the shorts so much worse compared to regular videos? If life is short, shouldn't one try to avoid spending too much time on YouTube overall?
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1. osn9363739 ◴[23 Oct 25 22:49 UTC] No.45688413[source]▶
I don't disagree, but they really are a different beast. Have you used the shorts feature? It's 95% brainrot. Where as you can use youtube intelligently to watch interesting things if you choose to. Obviously you could use regular youtube and watch brainrot/slop too, but there is no way to use shorts to watch good content.
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2. Gigachad ◴[23 Oct 25 23:06 UTC] No.45688587[source]▶
Yeah the feeds are totally different. My main youtube front page shows electronics projects, science/educational content, world news, etc. While the shorts feed is all AI slop and random cuts from movies with weird editing added or some guy on half the screen staring at the camera.