[dav43]

It’s crazy you can pay for premium, which is not cheap, and you can’t disable shorts.

The number of times I clicked “show less” and it has zero effect on the number of shorts.

[chrneu]

"Enhancer For Youtube" is a firefox extension that disables much of the nonsense in Youtube's UI. I can't use youtube without it anymore. There might be a chrome version? Idk, using chrome with youtube is dumb af tho so probably don't do that.

[pzmarzly]

Using Chromium-based browsers is the only way to play HDR videos, since Mozilla is dragging their feet for years with implementing support for that. I use Firefox for everything except for YouTube because of that.

But if you're in the same boat, at least use something that has an adblocker, like Brave, Vivaldi or Opera.

[com2kid]

Shorts are up to 3 minutes long now. At this point they are just vertical videos. I fully expect the supported length to keep increasing!

[mcmoor]

Vertical videos with much shitter UI. Inability to skip ahead or turn back may be understandable for <30 second videos, but not more.

[k4rli]

All vertical videos I've uploaded have automatically turned into shorts and there doesn't seem to be a way to toggle this.

[left-struck]

Nah shorts have a different culture and style. I don’t mean anything technical. For me I can’t stand the style and I avoid it completely.

[ares623]

New prophecy just dropped

[gblargg]

Maybe in the future they will support horizontal shorts as well. /s

[RulerOf]

What's crazy is that I can't turn them off for my children.

I complain about it to Google. They ignore it. They couldn't possibly give a shit.

I should probably complain to my congressman. Who also won't do shit even if they actually give a shit.

[typeofhuman]

You could just not let your kids go on YouTube.

There's a long history of people not using it. Most people today don't use it.

[tarxvf]

If you disable watch history, youtube tries to "punish" you by disabling nearly the non-subscription recommendations and shorts not from your subscriptions and a number of other things.

Worth a try.

[whatamidoingyo]

Brave has a setting to disable YouTube shorts. Both on the mobile app, and desktop version.

Settings -> media -> "Block YouTube Shorts".

There are also other settings related to YouTube. Brave is the only thing I'd use for YouTube on mobile.

[jbaiter]

It really is. I've been using Revanced to patch out the Shorts feature on my phone, works decently well, but I'm technically violating the ToS with that, despite shelling out 15€/month for it. Obnoxious.

[preinheimer]

Ive installed a browser extension to remove them on the desktop.

There should absolutely be a better answer here.

[sidrag22]

maybe there will be another tier of youtube premium in a few years that removes shorts, and people can try to guilt you for blocking them using browser extensions like they do for ad blocking.

[theshrike79]

The most worrying bit is that politicians are super concerned about "algorithmic content" for kids, like TikTok or Instagram Reels or Snapchat.

Youtube Shorts? Crickets.

It's IMPOSSIBLE to disable it with parental controls and it has the exact same slop as the other vertical video services.

Which kinda sucks because I'm fine with my kids watching horizontal youtube videos by certain creators, but I'd rather not they have access to the infinite pool of shorts unfiltered.

[JAlexoid]

I don't even see any shorts, unless I click the shorts tab on the web.

In the Android app it's literally just one line, which I have to scroll down to... like two pages.