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”
also be sure to disable cookies on youtube, it gets rid of weird suggestions and usually only suggests videos related to the current one
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.
The damn site tries to crash my browser before showing me what I want
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.
Add on the PokeTube skin from userstyles.org and you can pretend you live in a world that’s free and balanced where children can kick the asses of wannabe capitalistic overlords instead of the corporate hellscape we currently find ourselves in.
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.
i ran into this kind of garbage the other day looking for a Nicholas Jaar video when i couldn’t recall the name. like BoC, there’s tons and tons of tracks by Jaar, but results gave me one or two of his most popular tracks and a buuuuuunch of other stuff. i couldn’t even just keep scrolling, there were a dozen results and then the “related search” garbage.
ugh, i’m so fed up with google, and at the same time not motivated enough to figure out workarounds. i have work and shit to do around my house.
i guess, with me, they won.
edit typo
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’.
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
This boy ain’t right
It’s “y’all” - as in a contraction of “you all.”
“Ya’ll” is the contraction for “yes, llama”
Works for me
Works fine on yt revanced
I also got very relevant results for that query.
Great band though, you’ve got good taste
Agree
soon google will block ALL forms of front ends
I doubt it as that would break all of the embedded videos on the internet
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.
- 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.
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.
🦀
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.
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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OK but what does that have to do with privacy?
They can’t do what they are doing here without an intent to violate privacy.
How so
“Literally UNUSABLE!”
Meanwhile 99% of the planet uses it just fine.
99% of the planet are sheep who just click the first thing that shows up, if not enables autoplay while it feeds them incel nazi conspiracy shit.
Or even worse, feeds them modern clickbait news.
No, they all hate it too.
1.3T visits in 2023. 100M are paying for premium. They are doing just fine.
Oh, sorry, I thought we were talking about how much people who use YouTube hate YouTube’s shitty design, based on the fact that this whole thread is about YouTube users hating the enshittification of YouTube.
But you’re not here to engage with anyone, are you. You’re here to shill for a corporation 🤡
