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FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

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269 points youz | 1 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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LambdaComplex ◴[23 Oct 25 22:33 UTC] No.45688223[source]▶
YouTube shorts baffle me, in a way. "We've spent 20 years developing the perfect user interface for watching videos...now let's throw it all away and remove almost every feature so that it's more like TikTok."
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wvenable ◴[23 Oct 25 22:41 UTC] No.45688313[source]▶
Youtube Shorts are apparently very popular; so even if they aren't our cup of tea, you can't argue with success.
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1. gtowey ◴[23 Oct 25 22:54 UTC] No.45688458[source]▶
Gambling is also extremely successful but you could argue it's a net loss for society to have it.

The argument that money == correctness is basically what we've been trained to believe by armies of MBAs, but it's not right. It's sad that the state of philosophical and moral discussions in our society has basically been usurped by a kind of thoughtless reductionism.