These are all products that I legitimately like and want to engage with, but linking them all to a single account and more importantly a shared recommendation engine feels very flawed.
My music playlists from Youtube Music keep showing up on my Youtube homepage. Likewise, engaging with Youtube Shorts (especially subscribing) also subscribes to their youtube channel. I don’t know about anyone else, but what I find interesting in a 30 second video is not what I find interesting in a 10-30 minute video.
I feel like Google would be better served separating these recommendation engines. Even looking at this from a monetization lens, it feels inefficient. How do you guys feel? If you have any hacks or recommendations I’d love to hear them. I’m personally ready to create a TikTok account just to avoid contaminating my youtube feed.
I personally despise yotuube shorts. I use rules in my ublock origin to block them so I don’t see them on my youtube page.
What are you using? I recently came up with these that remove shorts and community posts and the 50% of search results that have nothing to do with your search. They might get rid of a little too much. I’ve noticed channel landing pages are coming up blank.
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! Block Youtube Shorts on front page youtube.com##ytd-rich-section-renderer > .ytd-rich-section-renderer > .ytd-rich-section-renderer[is-shorts=""] youtube.com##yt-formatted-string:has-text(/#shorts/):upward(ytd-rich-item-renderer.ytd-rich-grid-row) ! Block Youtube Shorts on the subscriptions page youtube.com##ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[overlay-style=SHORTS]:upward(ytd-grid-video-renderer.ytd-grid-renderer) ! Block Youtube Shorts on the search page youtube.com##ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer[overlay-style=SHORTS]:upward(ytd-video-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer) ! Remove Shorts on sidebar menu youtube.com##a.yt-simple-endpoint.ytd-guide-entry-renderer[title=Shorts]:upward(ytd-guide-entry-renderer.ytd-guide-section-renderer)