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Comment by eddieh | Hacker News Reader

I keep clicking the "not interested" X button that closes the shorts section oh the homepage, but no matter what it just keeps coming back. Unkillable zombie style.

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[X] -- "Ok. We'll hide this for 30 days."

Is that your idea of consent, youtube?

Consent was you typing in “youtube.com” to go to a privately owned website.

Perhaps, but that's the consent that they certainly don't want me to revoke. The part where my preferences are customizable is meant to be a mutually beneficial arrangement, because it prevents me from leaving.

Fun idea of consent. I hope you never walk on someone else's private property, even accidentally.

After it came back, I killed it permanently with uBlock origin. Yet another reason why Google wants to kill adblockers I guess.

https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube can hide them for good

Not if you're on a device or a tablet, sadly.

Maybe not if you are stuck in Apple's ecosystem, but on Android firefox extensions work

Lol sure I want a 90% worse experience on an Android tablet just for that?

This is like me complaining about gas mileage on a 1000km car trip and someone saying "you could always walk there!"... Yes I could but it's such a worse option overall.

> Maybe not if you are stuck in Apple's ecosystem

Even then: https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus has a "Hide Shorts Cells" options :)

I got so sick of it I installed an extension to remove them.

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