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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If it's not, NewPipe still works like a charm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wow, you used to be able to just completely disable shorts in the settings.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least it shows the shorts of se 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. :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you can't see which ones are from your subscriptions and which ones aren't, right!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.