[lynx97]

Just happened to me yesterday. I realized I'd really like to watch a long-form video on Huygens Clock. Something between a short (god damnit) and Quicksilver. Thought there must be something detailed. Nope, at least Youtube let me down. Or the search algo, who knows. Since they removed the "20+ minutes" button it has become basically useless to search on YT.

[troupo]

> Since they removed the "20+ minutes" button it has become basically useless to search on YT.

A few days ago I definitely got into an A/B test where the search results were:

- 5 shorts one under another

- new section with one or two videos and one or two shorts

- new section with five or more shorts in a horizontal layout

- new section with videos of which 20-30% were shorts

It's insane

[theshrike79]

They're pushing Shorts so fucking hard it makes me sick.

Even worse is that we're banning TikTok because it's bad for the kids (short form algorithmic content), Snapchat (similar thing + strangers creeping) and Instagram Stories (algorithm again).

BUT there is NO WAY for a parent to allow their kid to use Youtube AND block Shorts. (yes there are browser plugins etc, but how do you enforce them on a child?)

And from what I've seen the AI slop on Shorts is so fucking bad that it seems we just collectively forgot about Elsagate...

[watwut]

They are banning TikTok because it is not an American company and because it is profitable. They do not give a flying fck about kids.