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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. Timwi ◴[23 Oct 25 23:01 UTC] No.45688538[source]▶
I can absolutely argue about what measure of success to apply. If you're only focused on what makes you money, then you're successful according to this one metric, but you're a psychopath and you're hurting your users. And it's millions of users because you're maximizing for that.

If you instead make a great product that is liked by a select audience, and that doesn't cause them brainrot, then you have succeeded on a different metric.

Which metric is more conducive to a successful society?