I found myself frantically tapping on the x on your screenshot before I remembered I was on lemmy... I am still too angry at youtube (and myself) for the time I have wasted on shorts to try out anything new it suggests. Plus it tries to recommend right wing crackpot youtubers to me everybso often which is really annoying. /rant
A coordinated effort to stop visiting them until certain features are included, or certain changes made would be glorious, however I just don't see it happening
There's a lot of basic config/features YT needs. I'm a paying customer also. (YT premium family)
Like as a simple example. I don't want to watch shorts. I can X the shorts bar away for 30 days at a time but it just comes back. Why can't I disable shorts in settings permanently? (I mean I know why)
I want to sort channel videos by date, oldest to newest because the content I watch is longer form and generally follows a timeline of events that I want to watch in order.
that is all but impossible without manually creating playlists and adding videos in the order you want (a real pita)
I cannot easily get back to watch the next video in that series. Doing the above helps, but there's no pick up where you left off. There's some BS continue the video you were in the middle of featuring paywalled in premium that I find mildly helpful but most times if I bail on a video I'm done with it I don't want a reminder/easy continue tile for it.
I don't want to watch shorts. I can X the shorts bar away for 30 days at a time but it just comes back. Why can't I disable shorts in settings permanently?
Right, and I have grayjay for my phone but the majority of watching is on Nvidia Shield. I realize there's smarttube and others that can do things. My point is I shouldn't have to jump through hoops.
YouTube actually doesn't suggest me content at all, anymore. It's telling me watch history is disabled and I have to turn it back on in order to get recommendations. I used to fix this problem with the uBlock Origin's Purge Cache button, but now that's gone too and the new method to do it doesn't seem to work.
So now whenever I go to YT I type in names of a couple creators I follow to see if they've uploaded, and leave the platform afterwards.
I've set Revanced to start on Subscriptions, instead of Home, so I'm not mentally spammed with whichever bullshit is "du jour".
I also disabled shorts, because it was too easy to lose an hours of 2 to that mental cancer (even if some shorts were great).
Disable shorts via You (lower right) > Cog (upper right) > Revanced (pretty low) > Shorts components (at the bottom) > Hide Shorts in feed (first option).
"I hate when services actually tell people about new features they're offering"
Pushing people to use it (no I'm not going to buy youtube TV or whatever its called, stop asking youtube) is one thing, but simply proffered the option is relatively benign.
They're pushing it to everyone's feed, it's basically advertising. They could "tell people about new features" via press release they don't need to do this.
The exact same number as need to know about color filtering YouTube videos. It's not a meaningful feature, it's fine if nobody hears about it except through clicking around or word of mouth.
I already suspected they did this considering how every single element of videos suggested to me based on what I regularly watch covers the same content, is in the same format, has people on camera that look and sound exactly the same, the sets are similar, the intros and outros are similar, even down to what's on someone's shelf in the background is sometimes identical. The overall color tone is just another thing the AI can reference with other videos.
