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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: 0.307s | 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. kjkjadksj ◴[23 Oct 25 22:59 UTC] No.45688517[source]▶
They are infuriating. They hide the scrubbing controls for whatever reason, I’m not sure. I guess to make it look like instagram. Usually the shorts I am served are straight up widescreen videos cut to smartphone narrow width which is disgusting when all my youtube consumption happens on an actual computer.