YouTube shorts are cancer already. I've had them blocked ever since they appeared.
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2025
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How do you block them? I keep pressing "show fewer shorts" but they keep popping up and I can't find an option to block them entirely.
I just used block element in ublock origin. Haven't seen em since
Thanks! This seems to work.
I use the "Hide Shorts for YouTube" plugin on Firefox
Use this on Android: http://newpipe.net/ Or this on Android or desktop: https://grayjay.app/desktop/
Ublock + ff. in ublock select the eye dropper, move the eye dropper over the shorts section until you see the videos and the word shorts highlighted then click to block
In addition to what others have said, SmartTube has options to remove them on Android TV devices
Never watched one, never will. Rarely watch YouTube either except the odd music video.
I used to hate short form content in principle
but YT shorts actually shows me content from creators I like. sometimes I like browsing it, because some of that content is well suited to the format rather than dragging it out into a five minute video
what I fucking HATE is when YouTube opens up to the shorts page and just autoplays. it's inconsistent and idk why it does that
now, why the shorts format is here, and we can't just mix the short videos with the long ones in the same library... idk
Is that opinion because you're on a phone? They're OK by me on a PC and big TV. OTOH, if I'm not logged in, the pure shit they shovel at me, yikes.
They're designed to keep people with poor impulse control caught in a constant loop of short garbage clips. A bigger screen is not going to change that.
Also I don't normally watch YouTube on my phone unless I'm travelling and when I do I use NewPipe.
WTF kill this with fire.
Nuke it to be sure!
Omg i just checked out Veo 3, and videos can never be believed again. I mean it couldn't in the past either, but at least you had to have technical video editing skills or the money to pay someone who does. But now any schlub can just type a dumb text prompt and the machine will generate an extremely realistic looking video of exactly what you wrote. Insane. Absolutely insane.
How are we this far in the future right now?!
Don't worry. The energy usage from this will significantly help warm the planet, so it will all soon be over.
Good thing PeerTube exists, you could always just move there. Google stopped being trustworthy for creators as soon as they announced Veo 3 if not even before then.
Similarly, with Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest further embracing AI, you got this site, Mastodon, and Pixelfed to move to as far as the Fediverse goes and even Bsky while they're still anti-AI, although given Bsky is a centralized, corporate platform, what's stopping them from going the way of Google, Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest at some point in the future?
It doesn't matter where you view videos, the output from the ai generators is just an mp4 file that can be uploaded anywhere
Assuming PeerTube as a platform embraces AI in the same way Google/Meta/etc. are, even though that's fundamentally impossible based on its decentralized nature?
You can't force AI in a decentralized platform which allows people to self-host their content, and that also applies to Lemmy and to Mastodon and Pixelfed too, ditto for Matrix and PeerSuite.
Then I don't understand what your point is as a reply to my original comment. I said "no video you see can ever be believed again", and you reply with "well you can post your own videos on a self-hosted service". I don't see how that follows as a response to my original comment.
EDIT
I think you seem to be under the impression that ai videos are somehow locked onto only being on YouTube. That isn't the case. Anyone can go to any Veo ai generation site, write a prompt, and it'll generate a video of that in an mp4 file which they can upload to any video sharing platform. All mp4 files are the same thing, regardless of whether they were made by a video camera or ai.
I've been weaning myself off video content altogether, which I feel is the most surefire way to avoid AI video.
I feel like I'm going to turn into such a paranoid tin-foil-hat nutcase and just trust nothing I don't see with my own eyes... I mean I would be ok with that, it just sounds miserable.
Don't care. Just don't use them, as a I do.