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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (16 children)

I’ve stopped watching YouTube shorts because of this, and the removal of the downvote count makes it harder to tell.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why would you ever watch shorts in the first place? First thing I did when they appeared was make a ublock filter to hide them.

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago

100% this I do everything I can to ignore shorts

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