I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:
hide Shorts
hide For You
hide Trending
hide ‘People Also Searched For’
hide Search Categories
hide Promoted Videos
hide Promoted Websites
hide Suggested Products
Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It’s literally a short, yet it’s inserted like a video so you’re forced to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you’ve watched and start inserting shit based off that.
Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities… “just let me stick it in”
People here won’t complain about anything until their favourite youtuber tells them why it’s bad.
Unusable for me with ads as well. Grey loading screen and choppy audio instead of actually loading ads, never gets to the video. If I reopen the video a few times to skip the ad the video loads fine. No problems with online gaming, streaming services, etc so I know it’s their shit Roku app and ad network and not me. Ad blockers make it actually usable.
I get usable results for “Boards of Canada”. You’ve got some personal problems happening.
as a boards lover myself, i just have to comment on this, for one, impeccable taste in music.
anyway, i tested this myself, seems fine. Have you tried disabling the watch history bullshit? It even lists a sidebar full of album related shit.
So uh, go off queen ig.
Ya’ll need FreeTube.
Yal’l n’eed t’o lear’n a’bou’t apo’str’phe pl’ac’em’en’t’.
This boy ain’t right
Ya will need freetube
Damn… That’s a good username. Wish I had thought of it
you can have it too, considering you’re on separate instances :P
Nah, I don’t feel like starting a new account, nor adding to the unnecessary confusion of multiple users with the same name. I’m kinda happy I’m the only one of me rn
It’s “y’all” - as in a contraction of “you all.”
“Ya’ll” is the contraction for “yes, llama”
In fairness, I have no idea what I would want from that search query.
It’s indeed the name of a band
It looks like it’s a band name, as the third result is from a channel with that exact name. Idk what the first search result is, but that second one seems vaguely related probably because the guy mentioned it in his silly short
Hot and sexy nude planks of Canadian Maple plywood.
Boards of Canada is a very popular IDM artist, and they’re the third result down from the top.
Cool music taste.
The damn site tries to crash my browser before showing me what I want
Try piped. Your feed is only what you subscribe to and theres a toggle to hide shorts
Or NewPipe
Or Tubular
Or PipePipe (at the time it was basically Newpipe with comments to me)
The SponsorBlock integration is a major difference from NewPipe
Or FreeTube
Stuck in local
I’ve tried looking into that but I couldn’t get it working. It didn’t add any subscriptions to my feed. Going to the site now I don’t even seem to be able to click on anything. I just tried disabling my ad blocker and now I can click on stuff, but none of it won’t load any videos. Any idea what’s up with it? I’d love to be able to switch off YT if I can.
I used Piped for a while, but it’s always broken half the time or incredibly slow, it was giving me an aneurism. Freetube and never looked back
Which instance are you on. I use piped.adminforge.de with uBlock and it works fine. Also the feed shows stuff from my subscriptions (I think I adjusted something in the settings for that).
Piped isn’t working for me either anymore. I was using piped.adminforge.de before, but I’ve tried other instances too without any luck. It won’t load play any videos at all. I can search and find stuff without issues, but I can’t play anything.
Have you tried to enable only one codec and set the default quality to something like 720p in the preferences?
Depends on the instance, it might be down or having work done on it, and also I think there might be some ongoing war with youtube api to keep everything working but im not sure. I just signed up on the kavin rocks one, every couple of days it will be down for a bit but it comes back up.
Is it possible to turn recommendations on? I’m fine with those, but I never want to see shorts again.
No I dont think so. Theres a trending page on a feed page
Firefox, uBlock Origin, on a Linux Desktop. I have none of these problems and have filters to hide shorts, endcards, autoplay, ambient mode. And I block all cookies from Youtube/Google. Works perfectly.
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just an fyi it’s userstyles.world now. The .org is dead.
This is the way. And I might add, Unix desktop. Let’s not start bikeshedding between FOSS Unix distributions out of dogmatic reasons (I’m sure you didn’t mean to specifically single out “Linux” here, but I wish we would stop opposing “Linux” and other Unixes like BSD, Illumos, etc).
The point is, voting with your data for software that is defending your interests, and respecting your rights.
This is a weird response to me.
This is the way. And I might add, Unix desktop.
Sure man, rock on. ✊
Let’s not start bikeshedding between FOSS Unix distributions out of dogmatic reasons (I’m sure you didn’t mean to specifically single out “Linux” here
Eh… OP seems to be talking about their own setup. They probably “singled out” Linux because it’s what they use.
I wish we would stop opposing “Linux” and other Unixes like BSD, Illumos, etc).
I oppose none of those things, but Linux isn’t Unix.
(Usually the Unix folks are the ones at pains to point that out.)
It’s not so much opposition rather than other BSDs having almost negligible desktop presence… If we really want to get into semantics, too, Linux is technically not UNIX.
I’m working towards a Linux distro instead of windows. Until I get there it’s Firefox, unblock on a desktop with mullvad VPN. Set the vpn location to Albania for no ads.
Kubuntu is very friendly, it’s my daily. Try Mint if you want easier.
1 minute videos aren’t put into the shorts interface, so it’s not YouTube noticing that you disabled shorts but rather some YouTuber trying to follow the algorithm using a channel they made for shorts and mistakenly (I assume) uploading a video longer than minute on it. All such videos appear as normal videos instead of as shorts.
Google is terrible though, so I understand why you would think that.
- Here’s an extension which turns YouTube into an Invidious-like site, removing all addicting elements.
- If you’re using Linux, I wrote the youtube-tui a few years back, very similar to the extension where you get nothing but the search bar and subscriptions.
Dude your tool is gonna make my life better, thanks. I’m currently using yt-dlp and mpv to launch videos and was wishing I could get some features like video description while doing it.
Holy shit this is incredible. I have wanted a way to permanently hide shorts forever, thanks for sharing. Also it’s actually recommended by Mozilla which means it has active security audits on it, impressive.
🦀
You’re using Chrome in 2024 while also browsing Lemmy? Dear God, man. I wish I had your determination and\or powers of ignorance.
No need to be insulting, we are all here to make lemmy great.
I read it as playful 🤷 Though I think that does rely at least a bit on the reader understanding why
- browsing a privacy community
- on Lemmy
- using Google Chrome
would be an amusing non-sequitur.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be insulting. I sometimes find it difficult to find the line before it finds me.
I use what works best for me. I use Lemmy because it’s better than reddit. The official Reddit app is just unpleasant to use.
Here’s your Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite-search-fixer/
My three biggest problems with YouTube are:
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It sucks on desktops/laptops with bigger UI scaling enabled, some stuff just doesn’t fit.
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The search function on YouTube is useless and completely broken. Instead of searching normally it:
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Repeats same results multiple times;
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Display unrelated Shorts nobody asked for;
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Instead of displaying relevant results it shows stuff you have already watched or picked by YouTube algorithm.
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You can’t skip sponsored segments with YouTube Premium. You need SponsorBlock browser extension for that.
I wouldn’t dream of paying for premium unless they added an official version of sponsorblock across desktop and mobile. The fact that you can get more out of YouTube with a free client is laughable.
You’re pretty much just throwing away money if you pay for premium.
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I get nothing. Google is all pissy I turned off history and refuse to use their app. So they refuse to suggest anything.
The upside is no bloat and no ads, just have to know a topic.
positive for me cause I dont want to see their shitty recommendations anyways. I just like/dislike a video to indicate I watched it.
