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Hiro8811 ,

Bruh, fuck YouTube, and if you really have to use it use an alternative client. Grayjay has plugins for more apps but there are solely clients with YouTube no adds no shorts and newer with no games

Eyedust ,
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This. I use Revanced and it hides the shorts shelf and movies by default, so if you’re tutorial hopping you don’t get sidetracked. You can also choose to hide all side related videos, or just the “recommended for you” algorithm. Bonus, it comes with sponsor block built in.

Muffi ,

Just set up Grayjay because of your comment. The seamless integration of both Patreon and YouTube into the same feed is so good. Thanks a lot!

Hiro8811 ,

Don’t thank me thank the developers

Muffi ,

I had the idea to start counting it as a “Thirst-trap BINGO” each time every single thumbnail for shorts recommendations had a half naked woman with her mouth slightly open. Turns out that it happened more than half the time, and the game quickly got boring.

I have never watched a single short on YouTube, so apparently it’s just the default recommendations that are horny af.

lorty ,
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Yes, but for some reason it’s asian women doing sports. I never watch shorts anyway so whatever.

Kaput ,

Yup some days and its annoying. You click on one that you think will be genuinely interesting and if it has any woman being any level of attractive, your feed turn to thirst trap. I like woodworking and outdoors engineerinf Innocent stuff right?. Now I get the most handsome bearded athletic hunk lumberjack that keep posting log splitting videos. Took me a while to realize that it was not about that cool ax head or the wedge technic.

realitista ,

Yeah lots of thirst traps. I have the big issue on FB shorts. I have to admit I’ve taken the bait and honestly it’s not worse than anything else on my feed so whatever.

JackiesFridge ,
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My Shorts list is a lot of random Spanish-language stuff. I don’t speak Spanish.

DoctorRoxxo ,

I downloaded an extension on Firefox that blocks all shorts.

PutangInaMo ,

Is there any way to block them on the Xbox app?

Matriks404 ,

No, but I don’t mind that. It’s the only time short feed content is acceptable for me.

Masterkraft0r ,

IT’S NOT CORN! IT’S CALLED A THIRST TRAP I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW, UNEDUCATED PIG!

</ sarcasm> (just to be sure)

pjwestin ,
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Here’s my secret trick for making YouTube usable again:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/40a0cb25-46fe-485b-a4cb-6b083f4d719d.jpeg

Jesusaurus ,

I’d like to do that but that’s also how YouTube indicates which videos you’ve already watched, which YouTube will frequently re-serve in your recommendations.

pjwestin ,
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Oh, don’t worry, reccomendations will be dead too! Fun fact, I turned off my Watch History 5+ years ago, but 6 months ago YouTube decided they, “needed,” my history to give me recommendations. I decided that was fine, so now the Homepage tab is disabled, the Shorts tab is disabled, and now I just have a subscription list from creators I like! I still get related videos when watching a video, and that’s more than adequate to discover new content. I don’t have time to watch all my subscriptions anyway, so if YouTube can’t reccomend 30 videos I’ve never seen before under every video I watch, what do I care?

_dev_null ,
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I do something similar, but I guess scorched earth edition:

  • Only use firefox, no chrome or chromium variants
  • Never signed in to my google account (only have it to keep a gmail forward going for old ass subscriptions)
  • Have firefox configured to only keep whitelisted sites’ cookies and data between restarts - google is not on that list
  • uBlock Origin

The last several months I started seeing that youtube screen “enable history to see recommendations” blank page when first landing, as if it was a punishment to me. It’s not. I remember all the channels I like, and it’s easy enough to keep checking back. So that blank screen is actually a nice bonus to me.

pjwestin ,
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It’s amazing how Google thinks giving you the content you actually want to see is some kind of punishment, especially when 90% of the other content is sweaty needs whining about how woke Hollywood is.

kaine ,

YouTube shorts are something I hate so much, that is why I removed them thanks to the extensions available for Firefox.

TankovayaDiviziya ,

Doesn’t happen to me on YT but on Facebook with suggested pages but only for a brief while…

BaskinRobbins ,

Mine started out like this but eventually was replaced with gaming content and cars. Does anyone know how to get the porn back?

jaschen ,

Watch more porn.

melpomenesclevage ,

Doesn’t work. You ever tried to buy sex toys on amazon? They will not let you run a proper search.

Aux ,

I don’t know what’s wrong with your Amazon, but it works just fine here.

melpomenesclevage ,

When? Haven’t tried recently.

Aux ,

Tried just now, plenty of toys for every taste.

melpomenesclevage ,

Huh. I can find them but never with precise searches.

Aux ,

Well, something is wrong on your side.

MTK ,

Honestly, I recently created a fake Facebook account and the first things to pop up in the “shorts” was all actual porn (soft but nudity and all) so unlike others I don’t think this MUST be your own doing

cordlesslamp ,

Never touch the YT homepage. Always went straight to Subscription tab and watch stuff you subscribe to or search for the stuff you want to watch yourself. Also turn off watch history and web activity.

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