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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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PewDiePie Promoting Self-Hosting, Blocking Ads, Shorts and more

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    I dont really understand, is it possible to block JUST the shorts on Youtube? Any idea where i can find more about that?

    I dont want to leave youtube just yet, but occasionally the shorts are melting my brain.

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      Okay, since I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, you can block shorts using ublock origin. You can block pretty much any component on any website.

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        Just to make sure, uNlock or uBlock origin?

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          deleted by creator

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        deleted by creator

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        You can also use it to disable JavaScript which lets you bypass maybe 60 - 70% of paywalled news articles

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      Smarttube will block shorts, works best on TVs and large screen devices.

      YouTube revanced will as well, make sure you download the right one, lots of fakes out there.

      https://old.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1pebuhd/simplest_way_to_get_the_official_revanced_youtube/

      Not sure if you can filter out shorts within browsers with something like ublock origin filters, may need to look into it.

      Shorts are literally brainrot. Fuck tiktok, fuck shorts.

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        https://vanced.to/

        Or the github site.

        For android tv use smarttube

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          Didn’t vanced die? I’m pretty sure the continuation is revanced over at https://revanced.app/

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            You can get the revanced app from there or github. Vance. Did die. The revanced app has all the alternatives like morphed, rvx etc

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            The reddit post has the recent updates, revanced, since a lot of fake ones popped up. Be safe with apks.

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      “Enhancer for YouTube” add-on lets you block shorts on Firefox and Chrome.

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        the only correct answer for desktop

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          That reminds me, if you want a TV experience on YouTube that can also block shorts; I recently discovered “VacuumeTube” for desktop OSes.

          But yes, “Enhancer for YouTube” is the only correct answer for the desktop experience.

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      On android you can hide/remove with revanced.

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        Revanced not working so well lately…

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          Check out Morphe which is a fork of revanced and better maintained https://github.com/morpheapp

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            I tried it twice… First it stopped with a file not found exemption in a temp folder…

            The next time the app crashed.

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            I’ll be honest morphe has been a total nightmare for me. It works 70% of the times. 30% of the times it rewinds mid video to a random timestamp. And will do that in a loop.

            In my experience that has been the very worse app I used on Android for YT.

            To be fair it’s not really their fault if YT is constantly trying to disrupt their app.

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              Its working better than revanced for me.

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            I’ll take a look next time revanced belly ups.

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          idk what issues you have, I have it running on 5 devices

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          Mine started acting weird on wifi today, so I updated it. Getting a sponsorblock error 502, but working otherwise.

          2.2.2 came out 12 hours ago, updating now to check it all again.

          Here is the YouTube version I’m using.

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            2.2.2 is bugging out when compiling for me.

            So I’m SoL.

            Maybe I’ll try CLI… If I get bored or Firefox stops working(w/ublock.)

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              Give it a few days, I got a popup saying there was an issue, they’re working on it.

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      There is an extension for Firefox for blocking shorts. You lose the shorts button and any short you access through a link is converted into a regular, full size video.

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      I still use YouTube but never sign in, so basically I just search for what I wanna watch, Instead of subscribing I just have the channels I want in am RSS feed.

      I might consider self hosting Invidious maybe.

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        cool. I’ve been thinking about this too. how do you do this? does yt host the rss feeds? or do you have to like scrape them?

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          https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

          Just get the channel ID and replace that

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      Removed by mod

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        While also supporting scams and homophobia

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          Removed by mod

          • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            out of context

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              Removed by mod

          • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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            Well he’s dead, and IIRC didn’t donate to anti-women organizations. J.K. Rowling is a better comparison.

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              Removed by mod

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            If you want to pirate Brave Browser, I don’t think anyone will mind.

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            Do worry about this troll. I use Brave and don’t feel bad. You can find things you don’t like about everyone, if you go looking.

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          This is such an idiotic take. Yes i get it, Brave do try to offer some bullshit features out of the box, but there’s not many (if any) that don’t. You are not supporting scams or homophobia by using Brave.

          You can very easily and quickly lock down Brave to remove all their nonsense. This is just the same like you do with other browsers so all good.

          Yeah, company is shady, but browser is still grand for now if you do your own lockdown of features.

          If you wish a browser rec, please go with Mullvad.

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            I am indeed talking about your support of a scammer homophobic company, not their slightly modified Chromium browser.

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      https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

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      Vanced lets you remove the tab and remove the full portrait default, think it pulls shorts from results too.

      A much better experience

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      The Unhook browser extension for Youtube lets you choose what to block. You can choose to toggle the Shorts off without toggling anything else off.

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      On Android you can remove shorts with Brave

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      I know Brave is a big no no in these woods but they offer an option to select your own Content Filtering lists and one of those is Youtube Shorts.

      Fantastic privacy feature.

      Also they have Paywall Blocker, AI Suggsstion Blocker… Etc etc

    • SoloPhoenyx 🏳️‍🌈✊🏻🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.world
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      Seconding ReVanced. RVX works like a charm. Not ready to leave the Google ecosystem just yet. But, when I do, I’ll switch to primarily using NewPipe.

      I’m also keeping track of Haven as they may be an up and coming YT alternative for artists and creatives. They’re currently in seed funding so it’ll be interesting to see if they can get off the ground.

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      If you are talking about the home page, I blocked the container for “featured content” using ublock, that kills short and news in the feed. If you get linked to a short, you can use a extension to redirect the URL to the normal watch player.

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      Did you watch the video?

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      Turn off history on youtube. From that point on you will only get shorts from the people you’re actually subscribed to and nothing else.

      Oh and even with history turned off when you start a regular video from one of your favored creators, the sidebar will continue to suggest videos from other people you are not subscribed to. So you will not be completely isolated. But it will tone down the brain rot considerably.

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      I think it’s fairly new, but when you use search, there’s a list of filters at the top now like All, Videos, Unwatched, Watched, Recently Uploaded, etc. If you click video, it will only list videos with no shorts.

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