alt Hacker NewsIn the Home Screen it is always completely full of shorts. In my recommendations, full of shorts. There’s no way to just never be shown shorts. It’s very clear from the layout that they REALLY want you to watch shorts. I assume it’s because they are more addictive = more views = more ads. But I pay for YY premium! So why do they still insist on putting shorts everywhere? If I want shitty short videos I’ll use TikTok
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Subscriptions and even viewing history(?!) pull shorts out of order and place them at the top.
Hell, many times I launch YouTube and it immediately starts playing a short, no interaction required. And I have "show touches" on, so I know it's not a phantom tap or something, it's doing it all on its own.
YouTube pushes shorts insanely hard.
Yeah, they're very pushy with shorts.
But there are ways to never be shown shorts. They just tend to require avoiding the YouTube app.
Remember the World Wide Web? Even here in 2026, YouTube is still just a website -- if you want it to be. Web browsers like Firefox can still be used to block whatever you don't want to see.
So an effective way to deal with this situation is to switch to a browser, block the shorts, and then cancel premium and block ads as well.
In this way: A person can still consume the content that they want, while also protesting with their wallet.