I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:
hide Shorts
hide For You
hide Trending
hide 'People Also Searched For'
hide Search Categories
hide Promoted Videos
hide Promoted Websites
hide Suggested Products
Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It's literally a short, yet it's inserted like a video so you're forced to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you've watched and start inserting shit based off that.
Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities... "just let me stick it in"
I use YouTube with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-fixer-for-youtube/bojdknokkpgboeonegndfcgkaommhleo
You're using Chrome in 2024 while also browsing Lemmy? Dear God, man. I wish I had your determination and\or powers of ignorance.
No need to be insulting, we are all here to make lemmy great.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be insulting. I sometimes find it difficult to find the line before it finds me.
I read it as playful 🤷 Though I think that does rely at least a bit on the reader understanding why
would be an amusing non-sequitur.
I use what works best for me. I use Lemmy because it's better than reddit. The official Reddit app is just unpleasant to use.
Here's your Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite-search-fixer/