I’m using a stock Samsung Galaxy 8 phone right now (with Android 10) and I disabled the YouTube app. I was basically sick of its s***. Since then, I never sign in to the app/site, and so may aspects of using the site are much better now.

  • Everything is faster, since they don’t know me / aren’t tracking as much.
  • I always open YT in Firefox Focus, which doesn’t ever keep cookies or history each time I close it, so there’s no history for YT to mine each time I visit again.
  • I’m pretty sure I see fewer ads since I don’t have a deep history for YT to mine / target.
  • More random suggestions from YT means I am mostly broken out of the bubble caused by their tracking. I find new, interesting music, for instance, now, from the suggestions.
  • Hitting “back” in the browser means I go back wherever I was before, not to the YT home page (like the app used to do to me)

I still visit the site often, and appreciate all the good music and channels I watch, but now it’s overall a much more positive experience, more like YT was a few years ago versus the horrible mess it’s become recently.

I’d still appreciate any other tips anyone has for making YT visits even more enjoyable.

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I just want to disable Shorts!

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YouTube ReVanced

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yeah this solves pretty much all problems people have with modern youtube on android.

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cries with iOS

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Doesn’t help my TV

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Smartube so.

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I removed shorts and for a while my life was better until I got arrested.

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Maybe the “No pants subway ride” will be held next year. You should join them. :p

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Is that a thing? If so I’m down

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Youtube needs to realize its not tiktok and trying to be tiktok will just push the people who actually like that to tiktok and everyone else will just go somewhere else

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Ublock Origin is also able to block YouTube shorts

https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

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