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Ok, you know what, maybe those YouTube layoffs were actually warranted…
Seems great for giving more options for people who want this. I know a few neurodiverse people who would love something like this.
Just because it doesn’t work for you doesn’t mean it’s bad.
There are millions of youtube videos uploaded every single day. Why do I always get the exact same stuff in my recommendations? And why does YouTube shorts keep playing the same clips over and over again? Even the ones I disliked.
Because those videos give Google the best ad revenue. Who cares what the users watch all long as Google gets rich along the way.
What is the mechanism for that? What do you envision makes them more valuable?
Google gets more money if the video has more ads. Google also pays more in bandwidth and storage if the video is really long or high res. Also, advertisers don’t like drugs, violence or guns, whereas makeup and mobile phones are totally fine, so those videos are a suitable background for ads.
All of these variables go into the calculation that determines the sweet spot for Google, and the search results are ranked accordingly. You may be looking for an hour long video essay on the torture methods seen in the Hellraiser movies, but Google really wants you to spend more time on 5-minute crafts instead. Actually, 30 s shorts would be even better, as long as they keep you preoccupied.
uBlock - copy the template in the link below, add it to “My Filters” to completely remove Shorts from YouTube:
OMG thank you. I fucking hate shorts.
That site is amazing! Thank you!
Oh man I needed this! Not the stupid extensions that play it in a normal YouTube window or something. I just wanna remove that crappy short form video stuff altogether.
The UI for shorts is terrible. You can’t double click to fast forward, as that likes the video. Why are they inconsistent with their own player?
You should never dislike on YouTube. They just view it as engagement and will give it you more. To actually get rid of content that you don’t like, you need to use “not interested” in the context menu.
This drove me crazy for a long time.
Good to know. I need to see of there’s a way to do it on youtube shorts.
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Wtf
How revolutionaly. How disruptive. How innovative. /s
I have questions
How about astronomy but with a little more penis please 🙏?
Ah, a fellow “Cracking the Cryptic” lover, I see.
Youtube seems to base my suggestions on shoots wall of videos with a shotgun style of recommendations.
I do everything in my power to stop Google from tracking me, but when I’m watching youtube videos on youtube, it should be able to gifure itself out.
And “don’t recommend this video to me, I don’t like it” does nothing. Just to see how long it will keep this up, I keep telling it I don’t want to see let’s play videos of star trek online. But it sure wants me to see them, dozens of them, daily, sometimes recommending the same video I already told it not to.
And its really been pushing me to watch right-wing conspiracy videos and flat earth videos after whatever I just purposefully clicked on, despite most of my content views being future Sci fi with either apocalyptic levels of devastation on galactic scales, or “post-scarcity utopia where energy is virtually limitless and energy/matter manipulation is easy peasy, usually liberally peppered with anti-capitalist and progressive themes”
And of course “female leads bad because feeeemale”.
Only engage with things you want to see more of. Downvoting and Not Interested are both forms of engagement.
Engagement metrics allow YouTube to show advertisers that you’re actually looking at the page and not just letting it run in the background
I don’t down vote, just “not interested”
I can see that being exactly how YouTube is thinking, “if they’re too busy hate-blocking that means their eyes are glued to the screen!”
Instead of click Not Interested, I recommend igoring them. It might take a few days or even a week, but I they should start to disappear from your feed
Is that conceptually asinine? Absolutely… But it’s your best bet
I’d love a youtube replacement with decent recommendations based on viewer satisfaction, not “is this making money”
Buuuuut here we are, having to try to ignore the shittiness hoping boomer-bully-logic will work and it’ll just go away…
We’ll see how well ignoring it works. At least most of my subscriptions have playlist I can tap through
The not interested doesn’t work, the don’t recommend me videos from this channel works perfectly, and if the first video I get recommended of a channel is so repulsive to me I actually care to do something about it, the entire channel is probably bad anyways.
YouTube constantly suggests right wing side of things. Watch a video about Captain Marvel/Brie Larsen once? Get bombarded by YouTube shorts on why she is killing the MCU. Watch something about Star Wars? Get shorts on Gina Carano talking about “woke” Disney. Doesn’t matter that the political commentators that I subscribe to are progressive. Although I will admit to likely being at fault because those shorts tend to have more scantily clad versions of the characters and I am certain I look at them a split second longer while scrolling because boobs.
I can’t say I ever recall seeing anything right-wing in my recommendations. No anti-woke rants, no conspiracies, nothing like that at all. I’m glad whatever curse you guys have isn’t affecting me.
Hilariously, after watching a channel that did some comedy skits based on “life in star trek” and very clearly, vocally supportive of progressive ideals, literally one being “work unions are good and necessary even in the Federation where things should be great for everyone” I got a ton of reccommended videosafter each one, from red hats wearing oakleys sitting in trucks looking down at their phone to yell, one of which was literally titled “unions are destroying America”
My favorite though has to be a video discussing progressive ideals clearly displayed in the original star trek shows from 30+ years ago (The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, and Enterprise) and their tackling of modern socioeconomic and political issues. Non-binary species, white/black patterned species, extremely on-the-nose metaphors for the holocaust and palestine/israel/Gaza, and literally outright showing “fuck your racism here’s a kiss between a white man and a black woman with great hair”
And the “up next” video was “NUTREK IS TOO WOKE” by a very angry looking man with a confederate navy jack on the wall.
Wait that’s supposed to be for suggesting videos? When I first saw it I thought it was just for customizing the look of the feed and was very disappointed that it changed basically nothing.
this is beyond jumping the shark, this is a whole new category of stupid
it’s worse than musk-esque stupidity, because clearly there’s thought and research behind this, it’s all just incredibly cynical and demeaning to the human race
Don’t worry. It’s destined for an early visit to Google Graveyard.
Can I get a feed that’s not insisting that I watch the same small selection of garbage for months? Thanks.
Disable your viewing history. I don’t go on YouTube deep dives like I used to, but at least my suggested videos aren’t all related to some previous dive I’ve done anymore.
The “not interested” button is your hero. Really, just hit “not interested” on a few of the offending genre and it should get right out of there.
If you also remove them from your history - even better
Or the videos you watched years ago and still remember. There is more youtube video than my lifetime why the hell would i watch the same shit over and over again?
Gotta respect that
That’ll work great. More SEO to pigeonhole videos that will be abused by creators.
If you ever needed proof they dont know what they are doing this is it…
Or their data tells them the truth and humans don’t know what we are doing…
What? You don’t go to YT and think “hmm i wonder what color I’m in the mood for today”?
Weirdo.
