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Me on new pipe and invidious:
That’s not the face I make. Usually there’s more eyebrow commotion going on as I try to figure out why it’s taking so long to load the video or why I’m getting some random error message that means nothing to a rando trying to watch a video on their phone.
Are you self hosting? Public domains have been getting hit hard
I’m not getting the options to set them to 0 minutes. 15 min is the minimum. Guess Google realised their new setting to pay lip service to how much they respect their users’ time proved a bit too popular for their taste…
I’m already filtering out sharts with various plugins, but I wanted to enable this setting anyway to signal yt to fuck off.
Turns out, 15min is the lowest timer. Can’t turn it off completely
The article says that’s the previous limit. So they probably do a staggered rollout
I had 15 mins at the lowest setting a few days ago too. Now it’s 0. I think it’s rolling out gradually, just check it again in a week or so.
Lowest or longest timer?
lowest
What’s the maximum time you can set it off for?
It’s a dark-pattern control just to say they are doing something about it.
It only limits the number of minutes you can death-scroll Shorts. You’re still drinking from the Shorts firehose for up to 15 min, minimum.
You can’t turn shorts off. Edit: this may be only in the U.S.
tl;dr:
App only. Account -> Settings ->Time Management -> Shorts feed limit
Browser: I use a couple plugins to purge sharts from existence. One of them that also does a LOT of customization and usability fixes: https://github.com/code-charity/youtube
Even when set to 0 you’ll still see shorts, it just stops (or limits) the infinite scrolling.
It’s a dark-pattern control just to say they are doing something about it.
It only limits the number of minutes you can death-scroll Shorts. You’re still drinking from the Shorts firehose for up to 15 min, minimum.
You can’t turn shorts off.
Edit: this may be only in the U.S.
Europe here, 15min is minimum.
15 was minimum for me too (I’m in Denmark) a few days ago, but now it’s 0. They’re probably rolling out gradually, just check again in a few days and make sure the app is updated.
in 10 years we will probably get an option to hide feed altogether and forward users to their subscriptions.
I absolutely hate that my subscription page is basically just recommendations and shorts at the top that I have to scroll past.
Fuck that. Newpipe baby.
I see a trend of corporations at least trying to deshittify their products a little.
But I have a theory, that there will be a separate app for Shorts, and nobody will use it, unless it will be pre-installed.
I hate that youtube music did that when google music worked better and allowed you to run it without connecting periodically. Now I have Grayjay and a music app I use in graphene, never been happier to listen to the people I subscribe to only and have to go out of my way if I want to doomscroll.
The Youtube Music experience is abysmal for own music upload :( GPM was so good
anyone on ios, i recommend unwatched. this has shorts turned off by default and its great and ad free with sponsor block
Can we also turn off community posts? Why am I seeing them from random people I don’t give a shit about. I don’t even want to see them from the people I do care about.
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What about pants?
That’s how they’re hiding the shorts.
Not an awful decision.
I don’t have a YouTube account, and have no interest in getting one. I hid shorts with this browser add-on:
On your phone, assuming you use Android, there are many apps that allow disabling shorts.
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But is there also an option to show only shorts? Real free choice settings would offer that.
