alt Hacker NewsThey should also tackle Youtube. Yesterday my Youtube app opened into "Shorts" automatically. Shorts are of the same addictive variety as TikToks.
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awakeasleep • today at 2:54 PM
You can actually disable shorts now. Open the youtube time management settings and set shorts to zero. Its bliss for an old guy like me
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benhurmarcel • today at 3:20 PM
If you disable your watch history, Youtube won't show you personalized Shorts anymore. Much less addictive.
ErigmolCt • today at 2:42 PM
Shorts are basically the same product
I feel like the core of the problem is that we don't as consumers have hardly any control over the software we run on our devices. People can and have written less addictive YouTube, Reddit, etc clients, but Google Play and Apple App Store don't allow them.