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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A coordinated effort to stop visiting them until certain features are included, or certain changes made would be glorious, however I just don't see it happening

There's a lot of basic config/features YT needs. I'm a paying customer also. (YT premium family)

Like as a simple example. I don't want to watch shorts. I can X the shorts bar away for 30 days at a time but it just comes back. Why can't I disable shorts in settings permanently? (I mean I know why)

I want to sort channel videos by date, oldest to newest because the content I watch is longer form and generally follows a timeline of events that I want to watch in order.

  1. that is all but impossible without manually creating playlists and adding videos in the order you want (a real pita)

  2. I cannot easily get back to watch the next video in that series. Doing the above helps, but there's no pick up where you left off. There's some BS continue the video you were in the middle of featuring paywalled in premium that I find mildly helpful but most times if I bail on a video I'm done with it I don't want a reminder/easy continue tile for it.

There's lots more around detailed searching...

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't want to watch shorts. I can X the shorts bar away for 30 days at a time but it just comes back. Why can't I disable shorts in settings permanently?

There's extensions for that.

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Right, and I have grayjay for my phone but the majority of watching is on Nvidia Shield. I realize there's smarttube and others that can do things. My point is I shouldn't have to jump through hoops.