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How does that remove them?
do you feel a need to stop other people doing things you personally don't like?
I want to remove them from my own feed. I want the button that says "hide" or "show fewer shorts" to actually work and ideally hide them forever. I have to play whack-a-mole on the different devices and browsers to try to hide shorts.
Yes. That’s the basis of literally every law and regulation known to man.
thank goodness that in some countries we have the concept of a private life, where you don't have to like what we do and you can't stop it.
Because there is a law that says I can’t do that? Gotcha xD
Article 8 of the ECHR.
I can’t reply to your other comment so I’ll do it here.

Article 8 can be revoked for public safety, prevention of disorder or crime, protection of the rights of other people, but also for the protection of health and morals.

Given the problems with attention spans in systems like TikTok and shorts, they definitely could ban it even given article 8.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

I was explaining the idea of a private life, sorry it went over your head.
This is a very common response where users acquiesce to an internet of mediocrity rather than demanding the corporations do better

I mostly don't watch them. But they literally spam every single search. (While we're at it, Youtube also isn't very good at honoring keywords in searches either)

Easy on the website. Very click and swipe intensive on the phone in my opinion. Shorts are front and centre of the app and the search screens. I don't see any feed of suggested videos anymore.
Why would someone use the YouTube app? It's cancer.
It's cancer unless you use ReVanced, which makes it almost nice.
Just don't smoke/eat junk/do drugs etc. They put addictive shit in your face and force you to use their bloated interface to access the service.
The worst thing for me is they don't show the channel names. So much of the channels pushing Star Wars shorts are quite obvious bot names, and it's hard to filter these from legitimate SW content creators who are, on top of that, all using the same damn AI voice.
If I hear an AI voice I click the little menu button with three dots, then click don't show this channel or whatever it says.

The Venn diagram of AI voice users and good content creators is pretty close to two separate circles. I don't really care about the minority in the intersection.

Except that now Youtube also "helpfully" auto-dub legitimate videos in other languages (along with translating the titles) by default, so even the 'AI voice' isn't a good signal for gauging if it's quality content or not.

As a french-speaking person, I now find myself seeing french youtubers seemingly posting videos with english titles and robotic voice, before realizing that it's Youtube being stupid again.

What's more infuriating is that it's legitimately at heart a cool feature, just executed in the most brain-dead way possible, by making it opt-out and without the ability to specify known languages.

That's gonna have to be the content creators' and YouTube's problem, I don't care.
The response to junk food and cigarettes and drugs is to avoid them, not make them illegal.
It's fair to make it illegal to sell or advertise those things to children at least.
That's fair, yeah. To a degree. Else you go full UK.
Didn't say make them illegal, it's more about advertising and forcing people into situations that make it difficult to say no.