No, the best decision would be if they allowed us to disable shorts.
After I selected LEAVE HISTORY OFF, it stopped letting me browse and keeps asking me to ENABLE HISTORY. Anything google product has become hostile.
Almost makes up for YouTube Shorts
Shorts are nice when used properly. 60 second videos with no ads, subscription reminder or useless padding to reach 10 minutes? More, please! But channels which just upload excerpts of their recent videos as shorts just clutter my feed.
The player has 0 controls, only vertical videos and you can’t even filter them out permanently either. It is also full of low effort garbage spam that muddies search results. There’s literally multiple channels that upload the same 5 videos every hour or so, using search terms / tags for other viral topics that have nothing to do with them. It’s a fucking disaster.
Use Youtube Enhancer, it’s an extension that lets you permanently hide any existence of shorts.
They’ll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
Well, no shite. I’ll use Chromium without adblock and signed-in account, then. I’ll separate my YouTube and personal web browsing… oh wait, Firefox Containers exist.
I’m definitely not going to watch ads if there’s no way around them. I’d just move on. The platform has been on a constant downfall for me over the past decade anyway. Most of it is just clickbait shit and the recommendation algorithms became worse and worse too. Same with the search function. They don’t even allow you to search for explicit terms using quotation marks anymore and I still don’t understand why they did that. All my search results are muddled with unrelated garbage now, often times in front of the stuff I actually want to find.
Nebula seems like a cool concept. Not sure if there is enough content to be worth it for me yet (I dont watch much youtube to begin with), but I definitely like the idea. They are also currently partnered with a documentary service, so that might push me into it though.
Thanks for the nostalgia. I haven’t seen a login YT home feed in years, and I used to be a CC. YT has been a dumpster fire since the lobotomy of 2017.
