YouTube Will Help You Quit Watching Shorts (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/192225/youtube-will-help-you-quit-watching-shorts
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/804113/youtube-shorts-time-limit-pause-feeds
> Mobile users can now [1]set a customizable daily limit that restricts how long they can scroll Shorts feeds, aiming to help viewers better manage their time instead of endlessly scrolling. When a user reaches their time limit, they will receive a notification saying Shorts has been paused for the day.
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> This notification is dismissible, however, so it's on the user to honor these self-imposed restrictions.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/804113/youtube-shorts-time-limit-pause-feeds
Unnecessary (Score:2)
Personally if I'm bored enough to open Shorts, my viewing time is self-limiting because the content is so bad.
Why the auto-repeat? (Score:3)
give me a way to turn that feature off permanently
Re: (Score:2)
Yes. I do not understand - at ALL - why the fuck Youtube thinks anybody would want to loop any of this. What was the target audience? Who said, "Yes please, I want to hear short form content on repeat."
Maybe I'm not the targeted demographic - and that's good, because that targeted group is just plain stupid.
Zero (Score:3)
Can the limit be made zero?
Block all YouTube shorts. (Score:2)
A friendly reminder that I keep an up-to-date UblockOrigin filter list to block all YouTube shorts. Here is the current version:
www.youtube.com##ytd-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint[title="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse #dismissible ytd-rich-grid-slim-media[is-short]:upward(ytd-rich-section-renderer)
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-grid-video-render
Insistence (Score:2)
I never watch shorts. I don't want to watch shorts. Every time YoutTube offers me shorts I tell it I don't want to see them. A week later it recommends shorts again.
Intermission vs. Interruption (Score:2)
They will show long adds to interrupt the short shorts soon, hope that this measure does not fall short.
Adds save the day for a better tomorrow .. is the next shareholder day.
Control Panel for YouTube Plugin... (Score:2)
Allows you to stop seeing them, Forever ;-D
So the chicks will be (Score:1)
...naked now?
Re: (Score:2)
Okay I’ll pay that. That was good.
If I do that, then I won't see (Score:2)
attractive young women with "vast tracts of land" playing guitar solos from my favorite classic rock songs.
Did somebody sue them? (Score:2)
Because I can really not see them doing anything like that because they though it was right.
Just don't watch them (Score:1)
I already don't watch them. Don't need any help.
Hint: filters are wonderful.
Wait! What? (Score:2)
> Quit Watching Shorts
No more Daisy Dukes?
Easiest way to help? (Score:5, Informative)
Never re-enable them after I specifically turn them off in my feed. Pretty simple, eh?
Re: (Score:2)
you can turn them off? I want that feature.
Re: (Score:2)
You can. With a browser plugin called "Short Stop".
Re: (Score:2)
I also found a file to import into uBlock that completely got rid of them too. I believe I got it from one Chris Titus' videos about a year ago.
Re: (Score:2)
Just as with their AI deepfake detection system, YouTube has once again created a problem (Shorts addiction) so that it can deliver a solution (this auto-turn-off function).
I'd actually prefer that it didn't create the problems in the first place.
YouTube is a trainwreck right now and mid-tier creators are not valued at all. Just look at what they [1]have to put up with [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ-RXzzU9u0&pp=0gcJCQYKAYcqIYzv
Who needs help? (Score:2)
They're all in fucking portrait mode so borderline unwatchable on a pc.
Are Gen Z ever going to figure out that yes, you can actually turn a phone through 90 degrees?