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TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's so funny one wanting to become the other, yt went to shit after shorts and tiktok is doing the same.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Why can't they put shorts somewhere else? I do watch them but I don't always want them, they clog up results and recommendations so bad

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I hate that on the YouTube mobile app the shorts take up the entirety of your screen when you first open it. Like they really want you to watch shorts over their regular video content. And YouTube shorts still to this day don’t even work. If you open YouTube and watch 50 shorts a day, once a day for a week, after the first day you’ll see like one new short a day. There’s no algorithm, it just shows you the same exact shorts in almost the same exact order over and over again.

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why use the YouTube app? Firefox with ublock, never see an ad again

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I have a Google 1 family account which comes with YouTube Premium.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

FF with Ublock is not a very comfortable experience. I much prefer Newpipe.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They really fucked up the user experience for the older user base. Kids love those shorts though.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I mean I’m not even anti-shorts. Like I like shorts and Reels and such just fine but the YouTube shorts are literally just broken on top of being kinda shitty to begin with.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Because everyone thinks they have to offer everything to get more users and increase the bottom line.

They'd rather be a jack of all trades than a specialized expert in a field.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I keep getting shorts (not anymore i fixed that) when i searched for something and they often feature stuff not related to my search. Like me searching for tubeless bike tire instruction video and the shorts in between are a alien looking dark purple baby and a short where some muslim looking guys are waving a scimitar at a goats neck...like what in the actual fuck does that even do on youtube?

Shorts need to be ended imo, so i blocked them.

[–] jack@water.house 1 points 9 months ago

@Squizzy @yamanii This extension does exactly that (at least on desktop) and stops doom scrolling without removing them entirely: https://github.com/doma-itachi/Youtube-shorts-block

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

the same but opposite. YT pushes shorts to compete with Tiktok. Tiktok pushes longform content to compete with YT