In addition to what others have said, SmartTube has options to remove them on Android TV devices

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

Thanks! This seems to work.

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.

Never watched one, never will. Rarely watch YouTube either except the odd music video.

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.

Many people can't. It's called aphantasia. I still don't want AI-generated video anywhere near me.

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

Don't worry. The energy usage from this will significantly help warm the planet, so it will all soon be over.

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