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Another sign that tech companies care more about manipulating our interests than actually meeting them. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by john89@lemmy.ca to c/youtube@lemmy.ml

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Protip: you can create a uBlock Origin rule for the shorts panel, and that doesn't expire after 30 days.

I've got these in my filter list:

www.youtube.com###title-text:has-text(Shorts):nth-ancestor(7)  
www.youtube.com##.yt-formatted-string.style-scope.yt-simple-endpoint:has-text(YouTube Music):nth-ancestor(13)  
www.youtube.com###video-title-link:has-text(Mix – ):nth-ancestor(7)

But yeah, if there just wasn't any way to get rid of shorts that'd be one thing, but the 30 day bit means there was a meeting where they decided to give users a way to explicitly signal that they aren't interested in shorts and then decided not to respect that choice.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You uploaded an image when I think you meant to post a YouTube link.

ETA: Oh, maybe you meant to do that to highlight a dark pattern of shoving YT Shorts down our throats.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for this wikipedia page :)