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ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners (www.kevinthetechguy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 173 points 10 months ago* (18 children)

uBlock Origin can also get rid of Shorts in Youtube, as well as the hover-play functionaliy, and annotations on videos.

Just paste this into your uBlock Origin settings/myFilters:

! Kill YT Shorts
youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer
youtube.com##.html5-endscreen-content
youtube.com##.html5-endscreen
youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element
youtube.com###video-preview-container
annotations_module.js$script,domain=youtube.com
/endscreen.js$script,domain=www.youtube.com****
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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Does that kill just shorts or everything you mentioned in your comment?

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I thought hover play functionality can be turned off in youtube settings?

    But as I was typing this, I realised it's useful for non logged in youtube, I assume.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Huh. I love shorts. I have a curated YouTube account that shows me very interesting shorts about science, music, gaming, comedy, PC building, web development, tech news, etc etc. I wonder why people don't like shorts. Using YouTube without being logged in?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Shorts are deliberately and effectively addictive. Once Google found out they could copy the TikTok paradigm without being sued, they forced it down everyone's throat. Ever wonder why you can't disable shorts? Because they KNOW it's addictive. We are being farmed.

    YouTube is a vital tool for news and information. It should be NATIONALIZED, and purposefully exploitative technology like shorts should be BANNED.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    I agree with everything you said, to some degree. I'm just saying that shorts on my account are great, because I've honed my algorithm over many years so that it only gives me relevant stuff. I never see anything I don't want to see, basically. My Watch Later list overfloweth. 😅

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    it's mostly the interface, the layout, the clickbaityness the format encourages, and the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    idk with the old shorts this was more true, but now if it's like a quick tips thing or just a preview of a longer video, so long as you're not scrolling shorts and only scarcely engage with the more informative ones, they seem to have a place. Youtube pushes them to be infinitely scrolled clickbait garbage though so that's probably the experience for 95% of people.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.

    Have to disagree with the notion that this is a fact. I watch informative and interesting shorts all the time. Plenty out there if you have the right subscriptions and are careful with how you use the service.

    E.g. you must never scroll shorts. Watch the ones you want to see, then back out, so you never see anything that pollutes your account history.

    If you see something you don't like, put a negative vote on it, maybe even click "don't see this account again" or whatever it's called. And vice versa, upvote and subscribe to stuff you like.

    It requires some effort but for me it's worth the interesting content.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Alphabet is known to mess around with the algorithms so you'll always get disgusting Nazi shit in your suggestions sooner or later. Also, a lot of people can't back out of doom-scrolling, because of bad impulse control (people with ADHD for example). And even if there's something informative in there. It will always lack a lot of information. It's like merely reading the headline of an article and then going into the comments, claiming you know everything about the topic (happens on Lemmy a lot).

    It's nice that you seem to have a grip on these shorts, but it's even greater that you can use certain tools to eradicate them. On my mobile phone I use YouTube revanced and on Firefox/waterfox I use Tweaks for YouTube. With the latter you can also change the thumbnail size and grid the way you want so you don't have to cope with the ridiculously large thumbnails.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    I do not get Nazi content lol. Sometimes I'll see some right wing shit on there but I just go in and press "don't recommend this channel" on all those before even watching it. It's been a long time now since I've seen a recommendation that doesn't suit me.

    But yeah, not everyone can control YouTube, or themselves, like I can. All I'm saying is that I like shorts. I do agree that they can be dangerous. 😅

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