YouTube Will Now Let You Filter Shorts Out of Search Results (theverge.com)
- Reference: 0180550669
- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/08/2238227/youtube-will-now-let-you-filter-shorts-out-of-search-results
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/858867/youtube-shorts-search-results-filter
> Right now, a filter-less search shows a mix of longform and short form videos, which can be annoying if you just want to see videos in one format or the other. But in the new search filters, among other options, you can pick to see "Videos," which in my testing has only showed a list of longform videos, or "Shorts," which just shows Shorts.
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> YouTube is also removing the "Upload Date - Last Hour" and "Sort by Rating" filters because they "were not working as expected and had contributed to user complaints." The company will still offer other "Upload Date" filters, like "Today," "This week," "This Month," and "This Year," and you can also find popular videos with the new "Popularity" filter, which is replacing the "View count" sort option. (With the new "Popularity" filter, YouTube says that "our systems assess a video's view count and other relevance signals, such as watch time, to determine its popularity for that specific query.")
[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/400586735?hl=en
[2] https://www.theverge.com/news/858867/youtube-shorts-search-results-filter
and now you've probably fucked it up again (Score:1)
dear Youtube, please stop messing with my custom uBlock filters. i had that silly shit *solved*
Search (Score:1)
Youtube needs a an easier way to browse it's catalog, by country, subject, ect. So far it's ridiculous and has been. Or open up their API for others to access it.
Just search? (Score:3)
I use uBlock to remove shorts entirely from Youtube. Just removing shorts from search is nice, but I do not want to see them at all.
Re: (Score:3)
This. No matter how much you tell YT to show less shorts, they just keep coming.
Wow! (Score:3)
How far we have come.
Great start! (Score:1)
Next, allow me to toggle Shorts on or off in the subscription part of the mobile app.
And allow me to turn off community posts from people in the community pages of youtube channels. I don't want that cluttering up my phone or tablet.
Don't Celebrate (Score:3)
Its not a global setting, its something you explicitly have to add to the filters every time you search. Now an extension may be able to alter the URL to explicitly do this buut if you're searching on a TV you still need to deal with shitty vertical video nonsense being shoved down your throat.
Hide YouTube shorts across entire site. (Score:3)
As a friendly reminder, this is the current list of uBlockOrigin filters to completely remove all Shorts across all of YouTube (except if you click the Shorts tab).
I keep it up to date.
> 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-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
> www.youtube.com##ytd-browse ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
> www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
> www.youtube.com##ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer ytd-compact-video-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
> www.youtube.com##ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer ytd-shelf-renderer:has(span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"])
> www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-video-renderer span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[aria-label="Shorts"]:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer)
> www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer
> www.youtube.com###content > .ytd-rich-section-renderer.style-scope
> www.youtube.com##grid-shelf-view-model.ytGridShelfViewModelHostHasBottomButton.ytd-item-section-renderer.ytGridShelfViewModelHost:nth-of-type(n+1)
> www.youtube.com###contents > grid-shelf-view-model.ytGridShelfViewModelHostHasBottomButton.ytd-item-section-renderer.ytGridShelfViewModelHost:nth-of-type(n+1)
> www.youtube.com##.ytd-item-section-renderer.ytGridShelfViewModelHost
> m.youtube.com##ytm-reel-shelf-renderer
> m.youtube.com##ytm-pivot-bar-renderer div.pivot-shorts:upward(ytm-pivot-bar-item-renderer)
> m.youtube.com##ytm-browse ytm-item-section-renderer ytm-video-with-context-renderer:has(ytm-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[data-style="SHORTS"])
> m.youtube.com##ytm-browse ytm-item-section-renderer ytm-compact-video-renderer:has(ytm-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[data-style="SHORTS"])
> m.youtube.com##ytm-search ytm-compact-video-renderer:has(ytm-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[data-style="SHORTS"])
Source (free membership required): [1]https://www.sr20-forum.com/bug... [sr20-forum.com]
[1] https://www.sr20-forum.com/bug-hunt/!78205-hide-youtube-shorts-across-entire-site.html
Chrome and Firefox have extensions to do this (Score:2)
Hide shorts for Youtube
[1]https://github.com/Vulpelo/hid... [github.com]
[1] https://github.com/Vulpelo/hide-youtube-shorts
OR, if you are using uBlock Origin... (Score:3)
... you can use "gisdev"'s filters and remove ALL shorts. Period.
[1]https://github.com/gijsdev/ubl... [github.com]
[1] https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
If only we could filter out AI-generated poo (Score:2)
That would be a lot more valuable to me than bouncing the results from shorts....
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah some of the shorts are worth watching from indie creators. cooking, language, music etc.
But it's the AI "7 obvious facts about", "10 1 hit wonders from the 19x0s", cats being cats, "5 foods you should eat", "10 historic photos that will blow your mind"...
Oh and I'm not American, so if I hear a Yank AI accent I know to skip it.
Re: (Score:2)
> Yeah some of the shorts are worth watching from indie creators.
No, they are not. There are zero "shorts" worth watching.