I feel conflict whether I should continue using YouTube. So far it has been one of my top educational resources (just behind reading books). But recent recommendation results, YouTube Shorts—which I despise the whole 15-second video trend with passion, and this dirty trick [1] are really putting me off.

[1]: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE?si=l28VRk_4BljDnNl8

YouTube Has Gone Too Far This Time

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This Lemmy post summarised well my feeling toward "Shorts" trend.

https://startrek.website/post/3717798

We're going in the wrong direction - Star Trek: Website