we’re making updates to better match how people discover trending content today by shifting away from one all-encompassing Trending list towards category-specific charts that we’ll continue to invest in over time.
Get rid of Shorts.
It’s too hot for that and I don’t think Google should control what people wear.
I keep hiding shorts but it keeps coming back like herpes
I do the range to those fucking YouTube game things. Stupid things
Same. I actually truly hate seeing the games pop up, so ugly and generic looking
I’ve installed user scripts to replace the player with the normal one and used unlock to hide the feed in my subscriptions page. Did the same with revanced on my phone.
They’re just designed to be addictive, I wasn’t getting anything out of them.
Shorts are annoying, but now they started cluttering the subscription page with community posts.
It’s bad, but especially when you browse in landscape Mode on a phone. They get blown up so big you have to scroll like 3 pages for one post, and there’s a lot of them.
And they will stay on your page forever and wont go away. No option to click them away at all.
Use browser plug-ins and revanced.
Hell yeah! It’s way too hot even for those.
They might, once it becomes too flooded with AI slop.
Shorts (as a format) aren’t the problem, it’s what you watch. If you train the algorithm to serve you garbage, then of course it’s gonna serve you garbage ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I literally never watch shorts. I’ve selected the option to show less shorts on my computer, I select the not interested option on each individual video on my TV when the row of them shows up, and they still constantly come back.
It blows my mind how popular shorts are because I’ve never had an interest in watching them.
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Great, trending videos are generally completely trash
Knowing Youtube they will start drizzling them into your search results instead or something equally terrible.
Occasionally a video I like will get to trending and I’ll question my taste in media.
True. I know this person and they speak for every single person that uses YouTube.
The trending page stopped being worth looking at once it shifted away from actual trending content. That content was replaced with ad friendly corporate videos like Kimmel and family vloggers you’ve never heard of.
Could that be the first actual improvement in years?
I’m sure they’re gonna replace it with something even more asinine but my god, the trending page was always just a cesspool of the absolute worst content on YouTube (with a few exceptions every now and then).
Ahh yes, the brainrot feed.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
they doing that to stop all the scrapers like newpipe from “working”.
shit is hilarious.
fuck you Google.
I use https://unhook.app/ and there’s no trending page
unhook is amazing, it blocked unrelated ragebait and tripophobic content randomly popping up on my searches
Oh, also pair it with https://dearrow.ajay.app/ to crowdsource de-ragebaiting titles/thumbnails (from the maker of Sponsorblock)
Meanwhile report every video that has a click-baity title or thumbnail
I spend hours on YouTube every single day and I have no clue what a “trending page” is.
I’m not sure how you can be so invested in YouTube and not at least be aware of trending. Have I ever looked at it? Not intentionally. Am I aware of it? Yeah.
When I open YouTube it gives me an edless feed of recommendations tailored to me. I don’t care what other people are watching. If there’s a tab with the title “trending” I’ve probably just never clicked it. I’m not even tempted to go see.
I worked at YouTube and use it constantly. I knew about it. But I just never used it. Because it was always garbage.
I’ve never used that feature…
don’t they just wanna turn that into the “everything” page? I get the feeling that Youtube and sites like it would rather us watch what they want rather than what we want.
Yeah, cover your shame.
Logged out YouTube was covered up a few years ago.
Does this mean I will have to scroll even more if I want to go to a specific channel I am subscribed to? All i want on the left is History and the list of channels I am subscribed to.
Oh no! All those pages i block by turning my youtube history off!
Good. Can my Watch Later list please be the most important item I see when I go there?
