slowly youtube shorts get longer and longer, a disconcerning [sic] trend
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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That's not short.
Good news to those watching shorts (I guess) and completely irrelevant information to the rest of us.
There are dozens of ~~us~~ them (I assume)!
Sorry I ran out of concentration halfway through your comment. Could you split it up into bite size chunks and spoon feed it to me?
The very first video on YouTube was 19 seconds.
Then videos got so long they created shorts.
Now shorts are longer than the first YouTube video.
We’ve come full circle.
A three minute short is not a short, it is a video lol
I block shorts, so they don’t run anywhere 🤣
How do you do that?
‘Tweaks for YouTube’ extension on desktop. Modified YouTube client on iPhone and/or Android. For iPhone you can also use Vinegar, Baking Soda, Shorts Blocker, and SponsorBlock extensions for Safari.
There are also uBlock Origin custom filters/rules that block all shorts, at least for Firefox/Firefox mobile and its forks AFAIK.
I need to find a way to block them on Invidious. Shorts just bloat up my Subscriptions page.
Good to know, I'll search some out. Thanks!
Actually, does anyone with the knowhow know if the rules and filters made for uBlock work any differently in Chrome, Firefox or Safari? Arent they just html and javascript?
I'm a humanist, and the last time I played with html was in the 90's, so fuck if I know about anything thats happening beyond the ui.
I use GrayJay/Revanced on Android and Enhancer for YouTube on Firefox (or any browser)
I think that is a setting in freetube. Also some browser extensions can do that.
Hey, that's longer than I can run.
Oh no, I don't think my attention span can handle a full three minutes. That's like, a whole movie.
They should call those YouTube Capris.
Top on my premium wish list is a way to disable them completely
I have a couple browser plugins that make them vanish completely for me. Main one being "BlockTube".
Only one being buggy is the plugin that should rewrite shart links to regular video links, so I can watch them if someone links them to me, but I can just interact with the video normally
I primarily watch on a Nvidia shield. We have smarttubenext or something on there but I watch so much I want all the history/subs synced through to all devices. So for my TV it's a pain.
I can hide them 30 days at a time from the browser but I'd live for them to not ever show up or show up under the subscriptions tab
Where do you find that menu? I can't find it on my end
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