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.
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!
Big tech is about big money, it has less and less to do with tech
The new feature is how much they shove them down your throat.
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 “https://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?
I think YouTube Enhancer has that functionality as well.
Sadly it’s been removed from the add-ons repository
Hm? For which platform/s? I use it on Vivaldi since ages, and Firefox too. Vivaldi is Chromebased, so I know it supports that including Edge and Chrome. Are we talking mobile? Because then I’m not sure but at least FF should have it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/
It’s been removed. If you already have it, it still works, but you can no longer get it.
Oh I see that because of how much Firefox changed internally it is no longer compatible.
Edit: Huh, just noticed I’m not even running it anymore. TIL
Here’s the link anyway, YMMV: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-normal-player/
this one has worked for me for a long time: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439993-youtube-shorts-redirect
no shit right
buncha asshats just telling everybody they’ve got a secret in this thread. useless punks
Install “enhancer for youtube” (chrome web store) and in the settings for it check “convert shorts”
You’re welcome
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.
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.
It’s removing affordances to limit your possible interactions to the ones which benefit advertisers. They’d get rid of the back button if they could.
Especially with no volume knob on desktop. What in the actual fuck?
If you have access to a Desktop. Why would you ever be on TikTok?
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Referring more to YouTube shorts before I disabled them.
As someone with a physical volume nob on all my speakers … what
If the site that hosts the video you want me to watch doesn’t have an audio slider, I won’t fucking watch it.
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
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Pretty sure there is a setting for it.
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I think that might be a browser issue I use Firefox and I can click anywhere to pause/play by default
learn the keyboard commands
mpv for me
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.
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.
I firmly believe videos without controls are just gifs with sound.
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.
GET OUT HERE AND WATCH YOUR FAKE PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
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.
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
The bar is there, but I’ve never actually gotten it to work, it ignores any presses/clicks that I make
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!
This is what I hate about shorts… I can’t skip to the relevant part if I kiss something before it loops
you made a typo mate, i think you meant to write “poops” not “loops”
Where there’s smoke they pinch back.
😘
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.
Doesn’t work on desktop
There’s no need to skip forward with Facebook’s shorts, because the answer is no, there will be no pay off.
tiktok you can 2x long pressing on one of the icons right bottom can’t remember which
you feel like bait
Not on every reels
