The latest articles on Forem by filipkappa (@filipkappa). https://forem.com/filipkappa https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F205181%2Fdb699ed6-0563-4da9-9d17-d62334beb43c.jpeg https://forem.com/filipkappa en filipkappa Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:31:47 +0000 https://forem.com/filipkappa/lets-get-youtube-to-add-a-switch-off-button-for-shorts-34kn https://forem.com/filipkappa/lets-get-youtube-to-add-a-switch-off-button-for-shorts-34kn <p>YouTube is currently <strong>forcing its new <em>Shorts</em> feature on its users</strong>.</p> <p>The aim of this petition is to make YT give users an <strong>option to switch off</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Shorts recommendations from the newsfeed</li> <li>Shorts shortcut from the navigation bar</li> </ul> <p>Ideally, YT should also add an option to set a minimum length for videos that they can recommend to you.</p> <p>I created a petition to get YouTube to do this — <strong><a href="https://www.change.org/p/get-youtube-to-add-a-switch-off-button-for-shorts">you can sign the petition here</a></strong>.</p> <p>It’s common knowledge that YouTube introduced its Shorts feature as a response to the growing popularity of TikTok. Unlike TikTok, YouTube cannot be easily uninstalled from an android device. This makes it much harder to self-manage possible attention, addiction, and productivity issues.<br> YouTube also contains lots of mid and long-form, valuable content that most users would like to access, without being bothered with Shorts recommendations.</p> <p>Of course <em>Shorts</em> content, can also be valuable and meaningful, but it’s certainly more addictive.<br> If YouTube truly cares about the digital well-being of its users, they should leave the choice up to the user. Currently, there is no such option.</p> <p>— — — — — -<br> <strong>What you can do now?</strong></p> <ol> <li> <a href="https://www.change.org/p/get-youtube-to-add-a-switch-off-button-for-shorts">Sign this petition</a> — this will help to show a transparent, undeniable number of people, that would like to see this change introduced</li> <li> <strong>Submit feedback to YouTube on having an option to switch off Shorts</strong> — this, unfortunately, isn’t transparent but will give YT a sign of user needs.</li> </ol> productivity social habits youtube filipkappa Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:42:03 +0000 https://forem.com/filipkappa/dev-pill-a-new-drug-for-news-addicts-1m2m https://forem.com/filipkappa/dev-pill-a-new-drug-for-news-addicts-1m2m <p>Dev Pill </p> <p>Active Ingredients: <br> Technology/Web Development/Coding/jQuery/Angular/React/Vue</p> <p>For Informational use only. </p> <p>This newsletter relieves symptoms like information hunger and lack of knowledge on the latest trends. </p> <p>Take once a week.</p> <p>Long Term usage may cause web dev news addiction ;)<br> <a href="https://mdbootstrap.com/dev-pill/">https://mdbootstrap.com/dev-pill/</a></p> javascript webdev design