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FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

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286 points youz | 2 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.507s | 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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1. 334f905d22bc19 ◴[24 Oct 25 06:20 UTC] No.45691442[source]▶
Well, at least they made it incredibly annoying with the auto translated AI voice. At first I didn't even find the setting on youtube shorts to switch to the actual audio track.

They should keep going though. Maybe someday I will be so annoyed that I finally stop using this website

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2. cholantesh ◴[24 Oct 25 14:08 UTC] No.45694822[source]▶
I think auto-translate applies to all types of video, though? I once clicked on a 20+ minute Luisito Comunica video and found him speaking in very weird, stilted English. Can't even remember how I disabled it but it was a surreal experience.