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Limit your Shorts scrolling to zero minutes per day.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260415222700/https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero-minutes
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this is app only and the 0 hour limit is now gone
sadly useless advice now
Morphe
OH THANK GOD
Edit: why no zero option.
because fuck you watch our ads that’s why
Mine doesn’t have an option for 0.
Lame.
NewPipe literally has none of this shit. The various invidious instances as well. If you continue to use the official YouTube app, that’s on you.
Even Revanced has the options to hide Shorts or open them as regular videos. So does youtube.com with a simple Redirector rule.
Those shorts are entertaining little chunks of nothing that have no date and are usually cut off at the end. I’m thankful I can urn them off.
Why don’t they just make them behave like normal videos? The problem with shorts is the repeating and the endless scrolling (and the ever-present prompt to scroll). A lot of perfectly useful/entertaining content has been recommended to me by the static presentation on the home screen.
That’s the whole idea of shorts and tiktok style though; rapidly consuming quick content.
I think its interesting that for some people, that experience is deeply uncomfortable, and for others its necessary. It may sound over the top but I see a lot of parallels to hard drug addiction.
I just use this extension that plays them like normal videos. The UX for shorts is dumb as fuck
I use this simple userscript, no need for a random extension that only works in chrome https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439993-youtube-shorts-redirect/code
Same it’s the best of both. Sometimes I actually want to watch a short because it’s relevant. The problem is that the UI autoplays the next video and you can’t time scrub back to the bit you probably wanted to see a second time and before you know it you’re watching cat videos and 1 hour has passed.
I hated how shorts were designed to draw me into this app so much, that i deleted it all together. Now i reinstalled it, just to find out, that the feature is not yet rolled out to me.
I used revanced to completely disable shorts in the YouTube app.
Absurd that we need YouTube for that. In an ideal world, YouTube would be a backend service with an open API which there would be dozens of different apps for, with different features, including maybe this one… but I suppose you can’t make money with an ideal world…
Already blocked with revanced
Maybe I’m using Shorts in a different way, but I’m not seeing a problem with them. I just view them through the home page and they’re in my suggested list like every other video. I consider them just another format of video to watch.
I think the difference is I look at them like discreet units and then jump back to my homepage as opposed to doomscrolling them.
that’s great but it is simple as I don’t want to
nothing more need be discussed
modern companies are just trash
For people browsing on mobile in the youtube app(the vast majority, i imagine), if you click a short it will take you into the shorts interface, which is designed to maximally draw users in to doomscrolling. On pc its a very different experience and easier to disengage since it just pops up like a normal video (usually?)
Sharts on desktop uses its own interface also
That makes sense. I rarely use my phone except to cast to my TV. Majority of where I use it is on PC
I have two main conplaints about shorts, myself, the end result of which is that I prefer to just never see them in my feed, ever.
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Most shorts that pop up for me are literally just clips from longer form videos I’ve already seen, or are already on my Watch Later list. And there’s SO damn many of them. Those types of shorts are purely clutter.
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The other type of shorts I see most often are just aping the tiktok format, characterized by being extremely shallow and low-effort, as well as having the INFURIATING tendency to be over-edited for length trimming. You know the type of editing I mean, the one where the creator apparently thinks that even pausing to BREATHE between words or thoughts is too much downtime in the video. I find it insulting that TikTok and now YouTube have normalized the idea that creators should be so overwhelmingly desperate to capture every moment of your attention. Plus, it’s pretty well understood by now that feeding your attention that heavily is wildly unhealthy for your brain.
This really fucks up the delivery and timing of comedy clips. I’ll admit I watch a lot of shorts and there are some specific creators who are really good at it. Shout out to miniminuteman and hydronyc.
I quickly run into terribly cut clips that are only coherent when you watch the full video, and of course a plethora of AI slop of both clips and ads.
I need to get off this shit.
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Shorts should have been a different app in the first place
It doesn’t actually turn off shorts, just prevents (limits) infinite scrolling.
You’ll still be recommended shorts and if you accidentally click a short it will play.
used Revanced to get rid of them already
Heard it got discontinued by devs leaving over POS repo owner and that “Morphe” is it’s successor with the devs moving there instead.
great, more drama for me to figure out.
I feel you. Learned about it just recently but revanced still works for me so I’m not going to bother changing anything right now.
Revanced is the best thing to happen to YouTube!
Been using it since YouTube Vanced became brokie and I’ve loved every change they’ve made, even with GitHub trying to stop them
I was just updating recently, and the launcher really is a beast now, all in one, almost fully automated, right here on my phone
Blocked with uBO a long time ago. lmao
til uBO has this feature
Not out of the box, but it can block basically anything if you create a custom filter.
I even use it to re-size the thumbnails so I get 5 videos per row on my feed instead of just 3.
You can block lots of things with the picker.
Revance you can block it too.
