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Comment by brikym | Hacker News Reader

I’m paying for YouTube so I should be able to turn off shorts because it probably has a similar effect on my brain as sniffing a bag of freshly mixed epoxy glue. No doubt remixes will make the standards even worse. Please just let the good longer format videos see the lime light.

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YouTube developers: ”Best we can do is to intentionally insert completely unrelated videos into your YouTube search results”.

And suggest the same videos you've already watched over and over again.

My recommendation screen shows me at least a dozen categories. If I watch a few machining videos, it'll helpfully show me the following:

Machines, Lathes, Tools, Metalworking, Milling, Machine Tools, Steel, Woodworking, Drills, ...

Um, yeah, thanks for that wide diversity of content, Youtube.

Premium + Vanced + Sponsorblock is currently the best YouTube experience. The fact that even this does not take care of all annoyances is telling too.

I've made my revanced so that it doesn't have the shorts tab at all. Combined with the fact that I have the history turned off, so even if I open one video, I can't keep scrolling because YouTube won't give you recommendations anymore without the history. That's a win for me.

premium plus vanced? what do you get out of that combo over just vanced alone?

No ads on chromecast.

I have to add it's SUPER cheap here.

Contribute to creators.

I don't generally watch youtube shorts but went down a rabbithole last week when I had insomnia.

fucked the algorithms for me, now youtube shows 95% of things I have no interest in.

Yes, longer videos in portrait mode on mobile.

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