YouTube Will Now Let You Filter Shorts Out of Search Results (theverge.com) 51
YouTube is updating search filters so users can explicitly choose between Shorts and long-form videos. The change also replaces view-count sorting with a new "Popularity" filter and removes underperforming options like "Sort by Rating." The Verge reports: Right now, a filter-less search shows a mix of longform and short form videos, which can be annoying if you just want to see videos in one format or the other. But in the new search filters, among other options, you can pick to see "Videos," which in my testing has only showed a list of longform videos, or "Shorts," which just shows Shorts.
YouTube is also removing the "Upload Date - Last Hour" and "Sort by Rating" filters because they "were not working as expected and had contributed to user complaints." The company will still offer other "Upload Date" filters, like "Today," "This week," "This Month," and "This Year," and you can also find popular videos with the new "Popularity" filter, which is replacing the "View count" sort option. (With the new "Popularity" filter, YouTube says that "our systems assess a video's view count and other relevance signals, such as watch time, to determine its popularity for that specific query.")
YouTube is also removing the "Upload Date - Last Hour" and "Sort by Rating" filters because they "were not working as expected and had contributed to user complaints." The company will still offer other "Upload Date" filters, like "Today," "This week," "This Month," and "This Year," and you can also find popular videos with the new "Popularity" filter, which is replacing the "View count" sort option. (With the new "Popularity" filter, YouTube says that "our systems assess a video's view count and other relevance signals, such as watch time, to determine its popularity for that specific query.")
If only we could filter out AI-generated poo (Score:5, Insightful)
That would be a lot more valuable to me than bouncing the results from shorts....
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Yeah some of the shorts are worth watching from indie creators. cooking, language, music etc.
But it's the AI "7 obvious facts about", "10 1 hit wonders from the 19x0s", cats being cats, "5 foods you should eat", "10 historic photos that will blow your mind"...
Oh and I'm not American, so if I hear a Yank AI accent I know to skip it.
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Yeah some of the shorts are worth watching from indie creators.
No, they are not. There are zero "shorts" worth watching.
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Shorts are just YouTube's copy of their competition, designed to engage youth. They are mostly worthless, juvenile entertainment and the few exceptions are excerpts of useful videos and not needed.
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This channel does very funny animations. https://www.youtube.com/@purin... [youtube.com]
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and now you've probably fucked it up again (Score:2)
dear Youtube, please stop messing with my custom uBlock filters. i had that silly shit *solved*
Search (Score:1)
Just search? (Score:4, Insightful)
I use uBlock to remove shorts entirely from Youtube. Just removing shorts from search is nice, but I do not want to see them at all.
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This. No matter how much you tell YT to show less shorts, they just keep coming.
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Don't forgot the firefox extension "unhook"..really quite useful to clearing the clutter on YT.
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First I heard about it. I'll check it out.
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I only see 2 YouTube "unhook" extensions. One that is 7 years old with about 150 users and another with 61 users and no comments. What is the specific name of the one you are referring to?
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... [mozilla.org]
Wow! (Score:3)
Old feature. (Score:1)
How far we have come.
Indeed. Why it seems like only yesterday I was adding the word “short” to my YouTube search query, confused as to what the fuck TFS is rambling on about..since it works exactly as one would expect.
Shocking how YouTube didn’t realize this. It’s only an entire fucking chapter in the No Shit Sherlock Search trilogy.
Great start! (Score:1)
Next, allow me to toggle Shorts on or off in the subscription part of the mobile app.
And allow me to turn off community posts from people in the community pages of youtube channels. I don't want that cluttering up my phone or tablet.
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I agree... I would really love to have a system setting that said "No shorts, ever, anywhere on the platform" but we must be grateful for the fact that it's only taken how many years for YT to finally listen to those of us who've been screaming for today's enhancement?
As others have said... now it's time for a "No AI" filter but unfortunately YT doesn't ask uploaders whether their video is AI generated or not -- it asks far more vague questions that also require anyone who uses VFX (such as almost any mode
Don't Celebrate (Score:3)
Hide YouTube shorts across entire site. (Score:5, Informative)
I keep it up to date.
Source (free membership required): https://www.sr20-forum.com/bug... [sr20-forum.com]
Chrome and Firefox have extensions to do this (Score:3)
Hide shorts for Youtube
https://github.com/Vulpelo/hid... [github.com]
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Wonder why the -1 moderation. Many extensions changed hands, ended up stealing people's data, etc. Main reason I'm reluctant to install any of them any more.
OR, if you are using uBlock Origin... (Score:4, Informative)
... you can use "gisdev"'s filters and remove ALL shorts. Period.
https://github.com/gijsdev/ubl... [github.com]
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I feel exactly the opposite, I have no interest in watching long-form YouTube videos. These guys yammer on and on, repeating themselves, saying something in 30 minutes or longer, that could be said in under 5 minutes. Whenever somebody sends me a 30-minute or 1-hour video and asks me to watch it, my eyes immediately glaze over.
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I feel exactly the opposite, I have no interest in watching long-form YouTube videos. These guys yammer on and on, repeating themselves, saying something in 30 minutes or longer, that could be said in under 5 minutes. Whenever somebody sends me a 30-minute or 1-hour video and asks me to watch it, my eyes immediately glaze over.
I feel you brother. My trick is to watch everything in 1.5x and to use siberaly the skip forward button. And if the video has a "watched graph" use that to find the most interesting parts.
Missed the ai boat (Score:2)
Why donâ(TM)t they allow searching based on video content. For example you should be able to search using queries like âoevideo where tan cat jumps on dogâ etc. ?
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Doga is dog yoga, so it must be an avocado were-cat attacking a European yogi dog?
I just used ublock origin to nuke shorts (Score:2)
Been gone since day 1.
Just get rid of them (Score:3)
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They have it because shorts are addictive for our short attention spans. They'd be stupid to ignore that revenue stream.
Go stand on a NYC subway where 90% of people are looking at their phone, check what they're looking at. It's literally 90% all vertical shorts, some mobile games, and the rare person has a downloaded anime or tv show.
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Or how about get rid of the *long* videos! Usually, the long ones say in 30 minutes, what could be said in 5 minutes or less.
Now remove watched videos from recommendations (Score:3, Insightful)
Rss feeds can also be without shorts (Score:3)
You just need to edit the feed URL manually.
Replace the "UC" from channel_id with "UULF", and replace "channel_id" with "playlist_id".
Sources:
https://stackoverflow.com/ques... [stackoverflow.com]
https://blog.amen6.com/blog/20... [amen6.com]
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The standard video player and shorts player are also independent of the content.
youtube.com/shorts/[id]
youtube.com/watch?v=[id]
In a short you can select " shorts/ " and enter " watch?v= " to open the same video in the default player.
The shorts player has no scrub bar, most keyboard shortcuts don't work, can't be resized, and auto-loop by default.
You can search for "youtube short to watch javascript bookmarklet" and find a javascript one-liner that can be copy/pasted to a bookmark on the toolbar to do the fi
Still no way to disable shorts though (Score:2)
Finally (Score:2)
Shorts are crap. If you happen to watch one and inadvertently scroll too far up or down, the short disappears and is replaced by something else. But even worse, you can't go back to where you where. Hitting back on your browser does not return you to what you were watching.
Granted, I hardly ever go to YT any more except for one or two select sites and to listen to music, but even that is becoming less and less worthwhile. Having to go through twenty or thirty scripts to figure out which ones need turned o
YouTube is so user hostile (Score:3)
It took them long enough. The app is infuriating when using Chromecast because shirts can't be cast and they will disconnect you from casting if you try to play them.
Once you've clicked on the short, it completely forgets everything you were queued to watch. That playlist you put together over the last 20 minutes of browsing? Gone.
Better than nothing (Score:2)
This is better than the way things are currently but I would still like the ability to just turn off shorts completely. I don't want to see them on my homepage or in searches. Shorts are low effort garbage that are mostly designed to be a waste of time. Further, youtube needs to stop suggesting media to rent or pushing their stupid games, I DO NOT WANT THIS CRAP. I'm not paying to "rent" a movie when I can go pirate it and keep it for the life of my digital media. The only positive thing Youtube has done re
All I really want... (Score:2)
All I really want is to know whether I've seen a short before. On long form videos there's that red line at the bottom of the thumbnail that shows how much I've watched. Shorts don't have that.
Great, now I can disable my user script that (Score:2)
I created a script that hides all short videos. Most of them are NOT what I'm looking for. More importantly, they don't have media controls to skip ahead.
I guess they must have reached whatever adoption goal they set for themselves if they're allowing people to get rid of them now.