alt Hacker NewsWhere is it being shoved down anyone’s throat?
You literally have to intentionally click a short video or use the shorts tab to see any YouTube short.
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They play on app startup on the android app, at least for me.
Ehhhh not recently. They have an entire shorts section on my subscription page now, and shorts are _heavily_ pushed on my home page feed despite me trying to dismiss them multiple times.
Like yes I can hide them all using ublock on desktop and morphe on Android, but that the fact I have to do it to avoid them is because they're pushing shorts harder as of late, it used to also be pushed but not as much from my personal experience.
You click the button to hide the card of Shorts on the home page and it just says
We'll show you fewer Shorts on Home
Not "no more", but "fewer". Which means you don't get a choice, YouTube will still shove them down your throat.
Shorts are pushed on the homepage and in the sidebar. At least in the UI that I see in Firefox desktop.
I sometimes wonder if other people get other UIs than I do. There's technically nothing stopping them from 'tailoring' the UI for different people.