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The fact you can't go ahead or go back in the video is what bothers me the most (atleast on pc)
Yeah, I hate them too. But I guess YouTube is trying to compete with TikTok. >

Just like how they all have stories from SnapChat now. >

People still use snapchat? >

I don't know, but they did stories first and look what everyone else did xD >

I agree with the toggle. I don't care if the shorts are apparently relevant to me... I don't care about some random little girl's trip to Disney, or a 30 second clip of a song. If I want to watch music videos, I want to watch the whole thing, not some random person's favourite part. If I want to watch a video about anything else, I want to watch something that is at least 10 minutes long. >

Most of mine are videos about guns. I'm british, I have no interaction with guns, yet the shorts are mostly gun related >

I saw a video the other day about how YouTube directs people to extreme right wing content. It was pretty interesting and your experience reinforces that. >

Guns are far from extreme right. >

Maybe in Britian it is considered extreme right? >

YouTube should also pin original videos to the top, instead of having us scroll through endless amounts of reaction videos. >

Can stand them. Shitty wannabe tik tok crap. >

Real reason why Facebook and Google are trying to get TikTok banned. >

Who thinks YouTube Shorts are even good though? Like, how is this an unpopular opinion? I have never seen or heard anything positive about them. >

Maybe you paused your YT history? I turned it on and got better contents >

I turned it off and got better content >

It's just the cancer that is TikTok spreading to other platforms.  Look at how much Facebook/Insta is trying to get in on the narcissistic portrait mode video trend. >

I absolutely agree >

Oh my goodness I totally agree please let’s get rid of them I hate that everything is turning into TikTok AND I hate that when you open the YouTube app it immediately opens to the shorts and they’re so addicting I literally hate it. >

People say this often, but the youtube app automatically opens on the shorts tab only if you had closed it while watching shorts before, if you were not watching anything or if you were watching normal videos before, youtube will just open to your normal recommended page >

A lot of problems people have with certain websites and apps would be solved if they would just learn how to use them >

I dont mind if they had their own section but God damn its anoying when I go to someone's channel to find videos and I have to sift through the shitty shorts to find what I want lol >

You can just ignore them. I've watched maybe 2 or 3 since they became a thing. It's not that difficult >

One of my friends keep trying to convince me on how yt shorts did better on release than TikTok >

I hate that we now in every social app must have shorts,storis and bullshit >

If you use u-block’s element picker mode you can purge the shorts tab from your recommended section and it won’t show up again
There are also other extensions that claim to remove shorts from the site but I had to do the above to get rid of them from my home page >

shorts are bad, and the comments on those are the dumbest ever. >

I dislike them too. No controls, loads of shite being suggested that I have no interest in and they plaster the screen with the bastards. >

It would be nice if you could toggle them and the notes feature on Instagram too >

I turned off history because youtube's algorithm is so completely shit that it will recommend me billions of the same type of fucking videos. I want stuff to be related to what I'm watching now, don't fill 80% of the bar with the same shit I already ignored when it was in the notifications. >

Or fill it with 50% of your watch later videos...wtf... >

It’s a sign of rampant ADHD and narcissism.  I hate TikTok. >

Shorts are fucking stupid. If a video is less than 5 minutes long it's not worth my time. >

Agreed. All social media platforms are trying to copy each other because competition, which I understand. But it's very annoying that they're all compromising their useful and enjoyable features just to copy the others. >

I have a friend that keeps sending me YouTube shorts and I haven't laughed at a single one of them. >

Why not just, not watch them? >

Did you not read OP's comments? The subscription page is flooding with shorts that OP wants to have a toggle to filter them, so they can just browse through and look at longer normal videos. It is a very valid use case. >

Yeah I guess my eyeballs fell out mid paragraph and I missed that part >

Youtube shorts and tiktok are the people who maybe at best made Ds in highschool trying to say that the world is ran by lizard people.  It's just brain rot >

The only good shorts are the animal videos. I'll watch a cat do a flip in the air for a 30 second vid, but nothing else. >

I like them. When I get bored with a long video I take a break with a short and when I'm done looking at shorts the longer video resumes automatically.
Also, if I want to see something like a recipe or hair tutorial done quickly I can rely on the short while the long video is gonna have s lot of fluff in it. >

That's not unpopular, everyone hates youtube shorts >

I will never be able to understand people who feel such hatred for things they can easily avoid or ignore >

Someone had to use the poorly desinged mousewheel on their mouse.
Meanwhile someone is starving to death somewhere. >

This is actually a popular opinion >

I don't think anyone disagrees with this opinion
YouTube shorts is fucking terrible >

"YouTube shorts is fucking terrible"
My friend said the exact phrase out loud yesterday. >

OP you should really talk to the police about the person that is forcing you to watch these shorts. 
Are they holding you at gunpoint or is it more of a blackmail thing? >

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, because I totally agree, and I think lots of people do. I know the reason they're doing it is because TikTok is starting to replace them, so they want to try to catch up, but the presence of YouTube shorts has made me and many others completely avoid YouTube altogether. And the thing is, they're the ones doing this to themselves. Their counterattack backfired. Why? Because there is lots of content I go specifically to YouTube for. Cooking videos, songs that Spotify is a jerk about, true crime, et cetera. But the shorts just make it finicky and annoying, and just not worth using. If they're smart and don't want to lose completely to TikTok, they'll get rid of them, or at least make them only for mobile. >

Same here >

I don't like YouTube shorts much either. >

Infuriating you can only temporarily remove them >

For a format where the whole thing is based on being short, they seem to take forever. I'm so used to just skipping the first third of every youtube video, that it feels so restrictive to have no control over jumping ahead or replaying something. And what do they gain by removing the volume controls? Why would anyone want that? >

If they have to shove them down our throats they should at least improve their format.
I have no idea why they have completely different format to normal videos with UI, forced vertical orientation and lack of functions such as rewinding. It is not convenient in any way - if they want to promote short content, at least don't make it so unpleasant to watch >

some pps just want to try and copy other ones.. >

apps* >

I use a chrome extension called "Youtube-shorts block", it forces "shorts" into the regular youtube player. 
Its a life saver because a fair few videos especially older ones that where sub 30 seconds long that have been ported over to the new garbage mobile interface, no idea how we have actively stepped backward in UX design. >

It sucks, but you can use Revanced (With login) and disable shorts or another client like NewPipe (without login) without them.
Obviously, if you don't want to take your time to set them up, you're screwed. >

Fun fact; If you try to play one while connected to a chromecast, it prompts you to disconnect from it and will only play it on your phone.
I mean seriously - how did they stuff that up so badly? >

All you have to do is block the element in ublock origin. I’ve never seen shorts recommended to me again. >

If you do want to watch the short for some reason you can edit the URL and replace 'shorts' with 'watch'  and the video will play as normal. >

Cant agree more >

i do use yt on my phone and i also hate them. reason being that you cant skip back or forth so if i didnt hear something someone said, i usually quit the video bc i cant skip back to hear it again, and dont want to watch the whole short again >

When they are good they are just clips of a longer video, and then I want to go watch that making the short kinda pointless. But maybe it works as an advertisement of the video. >

Funny, it separates them fine on my mobile app, but they can't manage it on desktop. 
I do consume the shorts (I know, I'm a terrible person and I hate myself!), but agree they are a different medium to regular YT vids and should absolutely be separated. >

If you aren't paying for a product then you're the product. >

They are in payed version too >

Cannot upvote this.
I hate them too and I might not be a minority at all. >

You can turn them off... I don't know how that's not common knowledge. I know a few guys who have found the toggle off button >

What? Really, I was searching for it and sending complains to yt about it :D