Revance you can block it too.

til uBO has this feature

Heard it got discontinued by devs leaving over POS repo owner and that "Morphe" is it's successor with the devs moving there instead.

Revanced is the best thing to happen to YouTube!

Been using it since YouTube Vanced became brokie and I've loved every change they've made, even with GitHub trying to stop them

That's the whole idea of shorts and tiktok style though; rapidly consuming quick content.

I think its interesting that for some people, that experience is deeply uncomfortable, and for others its necessary. It may sound over the top but I see a lot of parallels to hard drug addiction.

I just use this extension that plays them like normal videos. The UX for shorts is dumb as fuck

Same, I used Tampermonkey. It also inserts a floating switch to turn them off or on in results.

The player isn't the issue with shorts. It's the content.

Wonder what would happen to society if ultra-short continuous video feeds like these would get banned.

Does it remove every trace of shorts like the browser addons do?

because fuck you watch our ads that’s why

For people browsing on mobile in the youtube app(the vast majority, i imagine), if you click a short it will take you into the shorts interface, which is designed to maximally draw users in to doomscrolling. On pc its a very different experience and easier to disengage since it just pops up like a normal video (usually?)

I have two main conplaints about shorts, myself, the end result of which is that I prefer to just never see them in my feed, ever.

1. Most shorts that pop up for me are literally just clips from longer form videos I've already seen, or are already on my Watch Later list. And there's SO damn many of them. Those types of shorts are purely clutter.

2. The other type of shorts I see most often are just aping the tiktok format, characterized by being extremely shallow and low-effort, as well as having the INFURIATING tendency to be over-edited for length trimming. You know the type of editing I mean, the one where the creator apparently thinks that even pausing to BREATHE between words or thoughts is too much downtime in the video. I find it insulting that TikTok and now YouTube have normalized the idea that creators should be so overwhelmingly desperate to capture every moment of your attention. Plus, it's pretty well understood by now that feeding your attention that heavily is wildly unhealthy for your brain.

that’s great but it is simple as I don’t want to

nothing more need be discussed

modern companies are just trash

It's not a restriction, it's user control. You can have them always on (and I suspect that will stay as the default), turn them off, or anything in between.

You just got more tools to control the interface and remove what you don't care about, what's wrong about that?