In addition those short are infuriating to watch, because YouTube takes off most of the video controls. You cant turn on or of closed captions, you can't jump back or forwards, or even fullscreen the video. Unless you embed it somehwere else. Proving that it's a deliberate design choise from youtube to gimp the controls. And then people publish tutorials as shorts.
Protip for when you do need to reference a short like that: just replace /shorts/ in the url with /v/ and it'll be a standard youtube video, just in a vertical format.
I feel that way about "stories". I block everyone's stories on Facebook and Instagram and I will never use Snapchat because it was made by lowlifes for lowlifes.
But honestly Youtube needs to make it optional if people get shorts, it's ruined too many channels, and is just a worthless waste of bandwidth. If I wanted shitty clickbait content I'd just go to tiktok in the first place, I'm on Youtube because I'm expecting some quality.
It's one of the reasons I won't let that bullshit touch my main channel. Other Youtubers have said they have had massive growth (usually counted in "Views" which they can't understand isn't the same thing for both categories) but in general shorts have made me unsubscribe from too many channels for me to even consider it.
They just need to pull shorts out into it's own app. It's not very often that I'd want to freely mix short 30 second videos in between longer YouTube content. They're different use cases.
That's the problem with literally every company these days. They don't want to give you the choice. They know what's best for you and you're going to like what they give you, that's the motto.
What's always maddening about this is we tend to do a kind of communal thing in our household where we all connect to the smart TV and stream short little videos.
But shorts won't stream. So you'll see one, want to share it with the group, and be completely unable to do so. Why they are restricted that way I have no idea.
I’m using Yattee with piped which gives you the option of switching off shorts.. such a better user experience than the official app, plus no tracking, ads or sponsors
Just use NewPipe, way better. No ads, no account, no restrictions. You can download videos, save playlists and even subscribe to people still. I've only had issues with slow loading with VPN enabled but it really works great. Worth a try.
I don´t have a problem with shorts, i can just ignore them.
What i don´t like about youtube shorts is that youtube started expanding those shorts to be as a 2x2 format like seen in the picture, which takes up most of the space on my screen, unlike the original 2x1 format.