Submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
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Pro tip: if you replace “shorts/” with a “watch?v=” in the URL of a YouTube shorts video, you can watch it like a normal video.
Another pro tip: if you replace the entire URL to “www.who.int/health-topics/mental-health”, you can learn about mental health, which is an essential piece of knowledge in the case you watch YouTube shorts.
And if you’ve accepted the decline, I believe replacing “shorts” with “v” is enough.
I use an extension that auto opens any stupid short in full video version.
Would you kindly link this extension?
Lmao
You can also just replace “shorts” with “watch”.
Install “enhancer for youtube” (chrome web store) and in the settings for it check “convert shorts”
You’re welcome
YouTube is the worst with this, because they’ve even gone so far as to convert older videos under 1 minute to shorts. They weren’t uploaded as shorts, but now congratulations you can’t scrub through the video or share a timestamped link anymore.
I think there’s client sided stuff to do to solve that still, I’m 90% sure on my pc shorts open as normal videos due to an add-on I added a long time ago (the most popular for modding the look and feel of it, someone definitely can add it because I’m out of the house)
Hello, it’s me, the one deleting their comment :))
I thought I’d be able to reply to that other comment of yours but it didn’t seem to work so I’ll just paste it here:
Oh interesting, I pretty much instantly deleted my comment again because I remembered seeing that the shorts thing in the enhancer was only experimental and assumed it didn’t work well yet.
Can’t find this comment of yours in the thread now but I can reply from the inbox :))
Youtube Enhancer is my bet. There are others but that’s the most popular. Also removes ads but I’m not sure that works anymore. uBlock and GreaseMonkey with the git script is the way to go for that, just as a public service announcement.
Has anyone noticed YouTube’s video compression has become much worse lately?
I tried watching a video I’ve seen before and I felt like I stepped back into 2007 again.
I would not be surprised at all if they are ramping up their compression algorithm to save additional bandwidth. Netflix has been feeling like that too. Blacks are a mess on both now. I get that it costs money but man you got to question where all of it is going for how much they make.
Sometimes YouTube will bump you down to like 720p while still showing the quality as 1080p
Yes. Auto is essentially the “720p or less but we’re gonna lie and say it’s 1080p still” option now. I’m constantly having to manually choose my resolution to get the full bitrate.
There was that whole controversy about the Wish trailers because of Youtube compression…
It really makes their tests for the higher bit rate “1080p Premium” quality just seem like reducing the current 1080p and locking out the one we already had.
If you pause the video you can scrub by dragging the end of the bar. It’s terrible UX but it’s technically possible
OMG! I didn’t know that! Thank you! I’ve been having to watch videos again from the start when I accidentally navigate away.
Granted it’s a short time frame but still.
You don’t have to pause for this. I can just scroll from the thin red bottom bar
You can scrub shorts on mobile (might have to pause it first), but not desktop for some reason…
Firefox, right click, show video controls
They fucking what!?
Anyway, the “Enhancer for YouTube” addon has an option to force a normal player for the shorts.
Now that you mention it I sometimes forget I have YouTube enhancer until I stop and remember oh wait YouTube isn’t normally monochromatic blue. Man I had too much fun redesigning my YouTube css.
Wait, even videos that aren’t in the vertical aspect ratio? I’ve got an 18 second video posted to Youtube and I’m going to be quite put out if they crop it and shart it out as a “short.”
Perfect example of continual enshitification, there’s no reason even a 15s “short” or other quick media couldn’t have video controls, it’s just intentional because some dogshit behavioural phycologist they’ve paid said that’s the best way to coerce more engagement.
Behaviour psychologists should have a morality clause in their oath.
Behavioral psychologists working for TikTok, Instagram and the likes are like physical doctors working for McDonald’s to make their junk food more addictive while blindly accepting that it will become even more unhealthy.
What a miserable waste of workforce.
Lol oath they are mostly just glorified teachers. Although maybe teachers should have oaths come to think of it.
That is incompatible with a capitalist business model. Morality is nice and all, but please do that on your own time, during company hours we literally own your life.
Or when it looks like it’s going to be a 15 second video, but actually it’s been going 2 minutes and still hasn’t got to the bit you’d have skipped to had it had controls, so you just close it in disgust.
It’s removing affordances to limit your interacting verbs to the ones which benefit advertisers. They’d get rid of the back button if they could.
Facebook is experimenting with back button removal right now, test group rollout.
It’s designed to keep you rewatching until you get the info you want or give up and keep scrolling. Eroding your attention span in the process.
TikTok is an evil platform that I will never use till the day I die. Don’t @ me
@TheBlue22
@ me
I always wondered why people say “Don’t at me”. Finally figured out its because it meant to be “@” as in a ping.
I also hate players where the overlay doesn’t go away. My girlfriend still watches videos on Facebook sometimes, and when she sends them to me, it always drives me crazy. You can’t see like 30% of the video, often the part of the screen where the captions are
Instagram reels and TikTok are the worst for this. Half the screen is useless shit.
Tbf a lot of the actual content is useless shit too
You hide it all on tik tok iirc
Especially with no volume knob on desktop. What in the actual fuck?
If you have access to a Desktop. Why, Oh Why would you ever be on TikTok?
As someone with a physical volume nob on all my speakers … what
VLC Media player is still the best way to watch a video.
Is there a way to make it pause/run by clicking on the video instead of having to mouseover the play icon? It is annoying to have to click on the little play icon every time.
Space bar?
space bar or right click and select play
learn the keyboard commands
I think that might be a browser issue I use Firefox and I can click anywhere to pause/play by default
Pretty sure there is a setting for it.
VLC does it all. You can even use it to save streaming videos from the web to a file for storage or use on your personal media server. I also use it to view my security camera feeds sometimes.
mpv for me
If the site that hosts the video you want me to watch doesn’t have an audio slider, I won’t fucking watch it.
I firmly believe videos without controls are just gifs with sound.
if they had their way they’d glue you to your seat, staple your eyes open, pin your arms down and play endless ads at you, purchasing on your behalf (with your credit card, of course) every time you watched one. Your ability to choose interferes with their business, which is sodomizing you and your family’s wallets.
YT Shorts, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Reels… These are things I just don’t bother watching.
The only reason social media companies took the controls away is because they know the videos being uploaded are shit but they want you to watch the whole thing for engagement. So they take away the controls to force that engagement. Go fuck yourself.
Also people who upload using these services - especially Shorts and Reels when other options exist on the same damn platform - are literally worse than Hitler.
literally worse than Hitler.
Any minute now, somebody’s gonna argue that it’s incorrect to use literally this way. Happens every time I see the word used here on Lemmy lol
And they’re wrong every time. You can use “literally” as a rhetorical exaggeration, bam, debate over. They’re the same as the “could care less” crowd.
There’s a name for that - it’s called Cunningham’s Law.
Well. You kind of did. Are you like Switzerland here?
Comparing video uploaders to genocidal dictators is a bit much. Especially when you can just use yt-dlp and watch the video in a media player instead
GET OUT HERE AND WATCH YOUR FAKE PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
TikTok has controls now actually.
There’s a scrollbar, playback speed, PIP mode, zoom, captions, and you can remove the Like, Comment, Share buttons as well (they call it Clear Display mode). Videos with different aspect ratios can also be put in landscape mode for better viewing.
Can we standardized the PornHub video player already?
Can’t speak for TikTok as i’ve never really used it, but Shorts and Reels do have a seek bar at the bottom of the screen. It’s barely noticeable at first but it’s there. And on Shorts you can tap once on the screen to pause the video if you’re on mobile.
Now, I love to hate on the smartphone-ification of web video as much as the next person, but this meme just feels like bait.
This, and autoplay muted videos in a feed like Twitter or Facebook drive me crazy.
You click unmute but you’ve missed 15-30 seconds of audio, so then you have to restart the video and click again.
Just add a “unmute and restart” button!
Why are there so many people in the comments staning YouTube?
YouTube shorts do have controls, you can scrub through the video with the progress bar along the bottom edge of the screen? Unless they’re getting rid of it.
It doesn’t super matter to me, I try really hard to avoid short form content. My attention span is bad enough as-is
You get to an age where new shit doesn’t seem like a good way to spend time. TF anyone wants to watch a stupid tiktok hand dance video for is beyond me. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some DVDs to alphabetize. I’m going to be watching some sick special features for Blade Runner while idiots wave their hands around to chipmunkified “oh no” song for internet points. I don’t know who’s winning.
Installed an extension to be able to see forward and back and change the volume. Volume is another one in a bad direction
This is what I hate about shorts… I can’t skip to the relevant part if I kiss something before it loops
ok but who’s that girl?
At least YouTube shorts has controls now. But videos more than a minute long are nice too.
longpress the bottom of the screen, it brings up the seekbar.
Also … there’s a moded APK out there that removes ads, blocks some metadata capture and enables the seek bar on every video (and allows downloads)
i swear shorts have always had video controls, at least for picking a spot to skip to like regular videos
Revanced for YouTube fixes that on android and there’s a couple of Firefox extensions that add controls and autoplay to shorts.
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I thought for shorts they added a controller.
Now can you get rid of all that text and buttons all over the place? It takes up half the screen and I can see the subs.
do arrow keys work? :o
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Leave it to big tech to introduce the same exact product with less features while they gaslight you into believing it’s a shiny new product that you should be excited about.
RandomStickman@kbin.social 1 year ago
Give it a year after people has gotten used to it and forgot how it was. They'll sell it back to you as a premium feature.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Big tech is about big money, it has less and less to do with tech
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
The new feature is how much they shove them down your throat.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When I see “New and improved!!” all I get is “We have found a way to make more money, and we sure as fuck ain’t passing the earnings to you”, or potentially “We faced a lawsuit so have since begun to follow the smallest possible set of FDA guidelines the law allows for”
rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 year ago
You described Apple perfectly
anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure our product is made by Filipino children, and sure it pollutes pristine wetlands, and yes, it does unfairly contribute to an insanely skewed distribution of wealth, but think of the INNOVATION!