by transcriptase 3 days ago
>We believe that the user experience comes first
I’ll believe that when YouTube gives me the ability to block certain channels versus “not interested” and “don’t recommend channel” buttons that do absolutely nothing close to what I want.
Or a thousand other things, but that one in particular has been top of mind recently.
Let me permanently hide "shorts".
You can mostly do it with ublock origin filters. Here are mine, though they do more.
www.youtube.com###contents-container > .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer.style-scope
www.youtube.com###rich-shelf-header
www.youtube.com###content > .ytd-rich-section-renderer.style-scope
||www.youtube.com/shorts/$document
Alternatively on firefox you can use either the "unhook" extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...) or "enhancer for youtube" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-...) extension (which has an option for this).
Or if they ever bring back the "ignore this domain" feature so we can ignore ai slop and copycat sites.
It's why I went to Kagi.