The desktop site is not any better. The uBlock origin rules for blocking shorts are a lifesaver.

I absolutely despise Shorts. Partly for the inane TikTok apeing content, partly because of vertical video and primarily because I make 45-60 second videos for clients and they want them on YouTube - where they become Shorts, no matter what I do (other than add enough empty video at the end to take them past 61 seconds). It's infuriating.

Ok so I am a youtube premium subscriber. And to have the best experience, I had to install 4 plugins Sponsorblock, Dislike button back, Dearrow, ublock (to remove shorts).

After thier recent changes to their search engine, it might be more efficient to cancel my subscription and use piped.

Use the Revanced app on android and you can remove these

Plus there's more shorts that are camouflaged as normal videos:
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What, you didn't go to YouTube because you want tiktok videos? I only go to YouTube when I'm looking for short punchy videos that could be gifs. I mean what else is the point of a video search engine? I crave pointless short videos with little to no detail on anything.

Like Bo Burnham once said in an interview. Social media companies want to occupy and completely take over your attention.

We are fucked as a species until governments- backed by scientists, put their foot down and stop unnecessary technology that doesn't improve or enrich peoples lifes and in fact only degrade peoples brain and attention span.

Google should split shorts into a separate app and then let it die like everything else.

revanced.

I've successfully moved to LibreTube and its fucking bliss.

Youtube search on desktop isn't great, but usable. Youtube search on a phone is fucked. It's taken up with things like recommendations based on things you already watched which is not likely to have much to do with what you were searching for.

I'm sorry guys, I actually watch the YouTube Shorts so Google pushing them into more people is my fault. I just don't care to download Tik Tok and have yet another app. 😭

There is sorta a way to minimize this. You can set a duration preference. Just set it to 4-20 minutes or longer and no shorts will pop up.

If you say "Not interested" on all the videos in the group, they will go away (for a while). God help you if you miss the triple-dots and tap the thumbnail though.

They need filters for sure, I don't mind shorts but they are treated exactly the same as any other video on the platform.

That's why you are supposed to use Newpipe. (Preferrably the version with Sponsorblock and Return Youtube Dislikes)

Fuck YouTube

I don't get the shorts. It may be because I refuse to watch them, I don't know

My favorite part is when the app randomly starts playing a random short when you open the app.

I just use third party apps

When i search for something on youtube, i use google. I almost never use the youtube search

I got the original video at the top...