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The search is terrible even without shorts. The first 3 or for search results are related to your query, most everything after that is just unrelated stuff that YouTube thinks you’ll like.
Pssst - put “before:2027” as it is, without spaces after the search query to change that. I’m guessing this won’t be working for too painfully long now with the ai search thing, but grab it while it’s hot I guess
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YouTube is so ass these days. It’s the UI for me that turns me off. It’s simplified yet it somehow also fails to communicate essential information.
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I hate shorts!
How dare you besmirch the traditional clothing of my people! (Australian adult males)
I don’t mind them too much. I also don’t watch a lot of them and I especially don’t scroll through them. But I like that they (usually) get right to the point instead of waffling about and I don’t have to block any ads.
And contrary to sentiment elsewhere in this thread, some are really informative. If someone’s feed is filled with brainrot I feel bad for ya son, I got 99 video suggestions and brainrot’s getting blocked (I know it doesn’t rhyme, we can workshop it.)
The one that would most fit the bill for Lemmings is Chris Boden aka Physicsduck but there are heaps of informative creators making short content that doesn’t waffle on just to pad the runtime.
That being said; obviously if the goal is to watch a 1 hour deep dive into a subject and the reaction is “shorts can’t do that”…. Well, yeah, they’re like the fun facts you could get on Minty’s wrappers not documentaries.
I just ignore them, even though they are in my face. I’ve watched enough shorts to learn most are incomplete, most titles are deceiving, and no dates means I might be clicking on a news related item that is old hat. I can only find out the approximate date from the comments. I still love youtube for a lot of their other stuff though.
I don’t know what you are talking about because I’ve had an addon that removes shorts for years now.
Install Revanced or Morphe. Delete ahorts from app. Profit
Unhook is a good extension for YouTube. It can hide various distractions, such as shorts, and it’s also configurable.
This is the way. (This or FreeTube.)
Note that the Firefox Add-On store features it as “Recommended”, i.e. the extension is monitored for safety.
This always makes me feel like an alien. Just don’t use YouTube. Go get a book from the library. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go yell at clouds.
Extensions -> hide shorts
Or use revanced/morphe and hide shorts patch
There’s still some good content in shorts (namely original skits) but most of it is low tier content
There are ways to block shorts.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/18/how-to-hide-the-shorts-section-on-youtube/
Yeah this was written a few years back but it was last updated in Feb of this year.
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YouTube Shorts make zero difference if one’s pattern of usage of YouTube is to only watch YouTube videos linked from other sources rather than actually staying within YouTube and consuming one after the other the videos their algorithm puts in front of you.
Personally I’ve never really got into the whole thing of just staying in YouTube and watching those videos that YouTube suggests, maybe because YouTube tends to suggest stuff with alarmist titles (“You won’t believe what we’ve just found out”) and other such loudmouth bullshitter crap, and for me that stuff just screams “untrustworthy and superficial bullshit which won’t teach me anything new with any depth” so for years it’s been the case that when I end up in YouTube their algorithm quickly put me off from consuming what it suggests. At most when I do stay within the YouTube environment to watch multiple videos, I’m explicitly searching for specific stuff, generally more stuff from the same person of the last good video I watched.
Usually I get a lot better YouTube video “suggestions” from links in posts and comments here or even in Reddit (back when I frequented it) than from the YouTube algorithm.
