I would love to degrade my YouTube experience and make it slower when switching videos, would make it a lot less addictive specially with shorts.
Video quality does decrease, and sometimes that's good a good thing.. :)
- Lower video quality is lower resolution = less addictive.
- Decreasing saturated colors reduces children's brain heroin. (Try to put the tv in normal or movie color mode and see the addictiveness fall off).
- Lowering the sound helps kids hear less of the background addictive noises and strain their hearing a little more and can help them get tired.
- Lowering brightness can help with as well.
- Kids device for viewing could be different than adults to allow filtering and shaping.
As for content, I agree.
- Recently I heard there's more and more fraudulent content under official channels that includes bad content inside the good stuff. This needs to be caught.
- Managing access to shorts is important, if not limit outright.
Do you have a youtube premium account that removes ads by chance?
My use of YouTube predates shorts, and I haven’t been a huge shorts consumer on social platforms, and I seem kind of indifferent to them. Anyone else?
Maybe there is something we can figure out and share with our friends who want to manage their shorts use.
Also, apps like opal can be really helpful.
I do hate the pushing of shorts and the algorithm that seems to have a 3 video memory, but aside from that I’m pretty happy, I don’t get the weird right wing stuff or creepy videos pushed at me or my kids.