I’ll do you one better: just replace the “shorts” with a “v”, and it’ll redirect you to the video version as well.
Bonus: since the “shorts” part of the URL is between two slashes, double clicking it will mark just that part.
Comment on Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 months agoYou can take the video ID of a shorts URL and paste it into a regular video URL to open it in the less dogshit UI.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fxJicOO_dBw -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJicOO_dBw
Miphera@lemmy.world 4 months ago
tyler@programming.dev 4 months ago
I have a ff plugin or script or something that does it. It’s the only thing that makes shorts bearable and usable
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Oh wow that’s such a good idea. I’d probably still just continue not ever watching yt shorts since they are generally really bad but if I ever for some reason need to see one I’d love to be able to actually have video player controls on it.