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Shorts are cancer and vertical videos need to die.

Youtube Shorts Block for Firefox and Chrome

The worst kind of shorts are the ones pretending to present serious content.

Of course you crammed all related parts about any current war into a maximum of 60 seconds or summarized the latest news.

Fuck you to anyone doing this.

Depends on the content. For cooking recipes i actually prefer them. I don't have to skip through multiple minutes of fluff. I get the ingredients, the steps, quick and easy (ofc some creators don't give measurements in shorts but we just block those ones)

Same with looking for a new show, quick clips give me an idea if i may be interested, have found a lot of shows that way. Various hobbies also have great little intro howtodoX short videos.

But 99% of shorts are not those, and imo are worthless trash

yes. There is a youtube extension called unhook (?) which lets you remove them from pretty much anywhere on the site.

Sometimes I get clickbaited into watching one because yt doesn't let me hide them forever (is there an extension for that maybe? Surely it's doable with css or something), and they've been alright. Though the ones I clicked on have only been from one creator and I don't mind fast talking (not sped up) and those didn't have the fast cuts.

I also really don't get the appeal of the format. I've been sent shorts from other creators and it just feels worse than the same thing as a proper video. It doesn't overload me because it's essentially how my brain operates anyway, but that's also why I want things that make me take a break from constantly thinking in overdrive by simply being slow.

The only thing I like about them is that there's no ads.

This is exactly why I hate TikTok and FB videos too, and once Instagram started hopping on that train I quit and never looked back.

If the information you want to share is worthwhile, it’ll be written out where I can read it at my own pace.

The excessive speed and nightmare for reasonable accessibility (not to mention the self-censoring that screws up the point of subtitles) makes me instinctively upset too. You’re not alone.

I wasn't sure if this post was about the media format or the piece of clothing, but my answer is the same for both: They're annoying and of limited use, and I absolutely hate them.

I like some Shorts. Long-form videos are great, but way too often I see 15+ minute videos about a topic that shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to discuss.

I'm glad to find other people with similar experiences to mine trying out short form video. I tried TikTok a few years ago when I realized how big it was and that I was missing out on entire cultural touchstones but I just couldn't. Too much music I don't like, too much randomly clicking and hoping I like a video, too much visual and audible noise.

Seriously why can't I just see the title and uploader of a video before I click? What if I don't want to watch this person or this particular video? Why do I have to decide while watching the video instead of relaxing with a bit of silence between videos?

Honestly the whole UI was just mentally and visually exhausting. I think I made it about 20 minutes of trying to get into TikTok before I finally just said "not for me" and gave up entirely

Worse: my wife watches shorts on the TV, wasting 75% screen real estate

I refuse to browse/watch shorts directly; probably because I know I'll get sucked in to it for several hours, but I also know there's very little useful/valuable info there. I will however occasionally watch other typically gaming YouTubers, reacting to collections of shorts.

No idea, never watched them. Now that I think about it, I've been watching less and less youtube this last months to a point I think I wouldn't miss it much if it went subscription only or I couldn't block ads.

No portrait-orientation video is worth watching.

Edit about the article of clothing: men's legs and feet look weird and so I don't like going out in public without long pants and shoes.

I detest them. Some science YouTubers have begun using them too, and too often they’re either just cut from longer videos I’ve already seen - and hence wasting my time until I realise that - or they contain no explanation at all because of the length.

I like them. Sometimes I want to watch videos, but not get super involved in a longer production. Plus, youtube shorts, at least, often have links to the main video they were clipped from, which I'll throw into my "watch later" playlist.

Not everybody likes shorts, and that's fine, but I make them work for me.