It is endlessly frustrating that companies have universally decided that they won’t let people say “no” to stuff, ever. There are no longer options to reject stupid-ass new “features”, only postponement until next time you open the app/website/program. They’ll continue pestering you for the rest of your life. I realize that my frustration may be a little over-zealous, but we deal with these interfaces dozens of times per day and this is user hostile behavior. There isn’t really an option to just use another service or program, since the entire technology landscape has been commandeered by a few major corporations, and they all enact the same shitty things as a group.

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    Yes, the most egregious one that really grinds my gears is on the front page of YouTube, where it will show a shelf with YouTube shorts with an X top right. If you click it, it will hide the shelf and say “Okay, we’ll hide shorts for 30 days” which is something no body would ever mean by pressing that button and it’s such patronizing, insidious bullshit.

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      I freaking hate Shorts, and the persistence with which YouTube attempts to shove that crap down your throat is absolutely infuriating.

      YouTube also recently made the thumbnails larger, which is also really bad as it makes it more difficult to see what videos are in your subscription feed (even moreso with all the shorts clogging it up).

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        Apparently it’s where the real money is. People doom-scrolling through an endless stream of crap.

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        I’ve been watching shorts lately and now EVERYTHING is about shorts. I don’t ever get the little x anymore to remove the annoying fucking shelf anymore. Why does all this shit have to suck so much.

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        TikTok makes tons of dollaroos with shorts, now Google wants a slice of the pie. “Me too, me too”. It would be funny if it wasn’t so annoying.

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      YouTube Revanced is the way (Android). Just disable shorts or anything else you don’t like and live happily ever after.

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        Is it a little more finished now?

        When the original vanced got stopped, I could never get the patcher for revanced to work on my phone, and it wasn’t even clear what the issue was. just a lot of errors and glitchy youtube.

        I’ve just beeing using firefox with ublock, but its not very convenient.

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          Yes, I’ve had a better time with it since then. I also couldn’t get it to work initially but now I’ve used it on two phones and it works fine. The trick is to use a slightly older release of the YT apk.

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          From my experience, yes. The initial setup was kind of annoying, but it’s been almost entirely smooth sailing from there.

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      At least it shows the shorts of the creators that you are subbed to.
      I usually only watch the one on the front page if I can recognize them in the thumbnail or it actually seems interesting and never ever scroll them.

      My only gripe:

      • Youtubers use shorts for the short sketches instead of actual short videos
      • Only 60s long
      • Vertical instead of horizontal
      • Both rot my brain. :(
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        And you can’t see which ones are from your subscriptions and which ones aren’t, right!

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          Yup.
          But if, I usually only watch the once I recognize. Those random brain rotting shorts are very noticeable from the ones I usually consume.

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      You know, I don’t think I’ve ever even been the the front page of YouTube.

      It’s like Stack Overflow in that regard. Google just takes you to pages in it, and then you leave again.