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Dammit, I hate Shorts and I was hoping they were killing that.

I exclusively use YT on a desktop computer so it's really annoying watching vertical video, not to mention the constant attempts to get me to start doomscrolling random content

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Sucks to not be the target demographic then. Theres literally billions of people who use youtube every day on mobiles. Shorts is here to stay. Make peace with it I guess.

I think you miss the point. Shorts aren't really suited to the desktop yet they're crammed in there. The format isn't really suited to YouTube in general. If they really wanted to compete with tiktok they'd spin shorts off to a separate app and tune their algorithm to those users without continuing to make YouTube worse while pandering to shorts.

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