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Mildly Infuriating

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I prefer "list" view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Worse, they have started playing Shorts without my consent as soon as I open the app.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't feel fond of participating in mindnumbing TikTok worship.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I prefer my own, different mindnumbing activities thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That only happens if you close the app while watching a short.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, it happens like a cold call when I haven't opened the app all day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't experience this and I've never heard anyone else claim to experience it you positive that you're forced quitting the app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Revanced-extended has a patch for this (see disable-shorts-on-startup here)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. Download YouTube version 18.25.40 (nodpi) but don't install it. Here's one place you could get it.
  2. Download ReVanced here and install it
  3. Add the Revanced Extended patches:

  1. Go to the patcher (at the bottom of the screen) and follow the instructions. Make sure you select the YouTube APK file you downloaded previously from storage. Enable at least the "Vanced MicroG support" and "Disable Shorts on startup" patches. There are also patches for disabling ads, shorts, showing an estimated but accurate dislike counter ("ReturnYouTubeDislike") and automatically skipping sponsored segments ("SponsorBlock")
  2. Click "Install"
  3. Download and install Vanced Manager (it's discontinued, but you can get it here)
  4. Fire it up and use it to install Vanced MicroG
  5. You're done. You can now uninstall all the apps you installed except Vanced MicroG and YouTube
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're on Android check out ReVanced. It lets you patch YouTube to disable shorts and even get rid of all ads, bring back dislikes, and sponsorblock. Just have to get an apk since it can't handle stock installs, and also microg_vanced for login. No root required.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does any of that jargon mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ReVanced (manager) is the program name that creates changes in the YouTube program. apk is the android package format. Like an exe or msi file on windows it installs the program. Sponsorblock is an addon that uses community submitted timestamps for videos that tells it where sponsorships, music, intros, outros, subscribe reminders, etc are in the videos and can be set up to automatically skip them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I set up the first one? I don't want the second one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just an option given during the patching process. I'll send you a link to my private server so it's not hammered. It'll have all the files needed to get going. Let me just make sure to update it to the current versions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All I want to do is stop shorts from playing when I open the app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was included in the patches. Disable shorts on startup.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not a programmer if I haven't made that clear. I'd rather deal with the ads and sponsors and invasive shorts than risk exploding my phone by miscoding something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're on Android, I recommend NewPipe to watch YT. Otherwise, stick to invidious instances, like https://inv.tux.pizza

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I don't want all gaming and programming content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Invidious instances recommend stuff based on what you're currently watching. Just start with one video and go from there. The Featured page is probably based on what most people using said instance watch most.

Some instances don't even have a Featured page, just a "blank" search.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What instances are there? How similar is this to PeerTube?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Invidious lets you watch youtube outside youtube. No ads, no tracking and some instances let you download the videos. You can use any watch?v=993939 link with any of the instances and it'll work. Example:

You can see a list of instances here https://api.invidious.io/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=18PL6enCwh8

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago