• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why can’t they put shorts somewhere else? I do watch them but I don’t always want them, they clog up results and recommendations so bad

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      9 months ago

      I hate that on the YouTube mobile app the shorts take up the entirety of your screen when you first open it. Like they really want you to watch shorts over their regular video content. And YouTube shorts still to this day don’t even work. If you open YouTube and watch 50 shorts a day, once a day for a week, after the first day you’ll see like one new short a day. There’s no algorithm, it just shows you the same exact shorts in almost the same exact order over and over again.

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      9 months ago

      Because everyone thinks they have to offer everything to get more users and increase the bottom line.

      They’d rather be a jack of all trades than a specialized expert in a field.

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      9 months ago

      I keep getting shorts (not anymore i fixed that) when i searched for something and they often feature stuff not related to my search. Like me searching for tubeless bike tire instruction video and the shorts in between are a alien looking dark purple baby and a short where some muslim looking guys are waving a scimitar at a goats neck…like what in the actual fuck does that even do on youtube?

      Shorts need to be ended imo, so i blocked them.