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)
I think it’s called YouTube shorts block
Yeah don’t have the name now but at least for Firefox there is an addon that just plays them as normal videos.
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. That same video wasn’t like that last year.
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Netflix definitely increased 1080p compression (or said better, nerfed it). 1080p even looks a little pixelated on my mobile phone now when it looked great on a PC monitor a few years ago.
Yet another +1 in piracy’s favor. Never had a video I got through a 🧲 look like shit
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.
It’s annoying, but you can covert the garbage at the end of like the youtube.com/shorts/afaftxsdds to youtube.com/watch?v=afaftxsdds and it’ll behave and be able to be interacted with like a normal video.
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.
Revanced + disable shorts components
The best days of the internet are behind us.
Early ebaumsworld was peak
Somethingawful forums!
Seriously, Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Facebook stories can go to hell.
Let’s build the Internet again, starting from Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. One step at a time.
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
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
@ me
TikTok has video controls you can move to any part of the video. It also has 2x play speed.
The meme lied?!?!
How can someone do this? Lie on the Internet!!!
All jokes aside, I am wrong in this specific regard then, but in my opinion the way the tiktok is designed as a whole is extremely harmful.
And you can hold down on the left-hand side of the screen to go to 2x temporarily, like YouTube does (but doesn’t do for shorts). I find that very convenient.
I always wondered why people say “Don’t at me”. Finally figured out its because it meant to be “@” as in a ping.
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.
Hopefully that means all the trend chasers trying to copy tiktok will copy that too.
Now? They’ve had controls for nearly 2 years at least.
Can we standardized the PornHub video player already?
PornHub is going to rebrand and take over the video streaming market, watch.
It’s designed to be controlled with only one hand.
GET OUT HERE AND WATCH YOUR FAKE PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
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!
better yet, just don’t autoplay fucking videos! if I want to watch it, I’ll click on it!
Or add another attribute explictly muting the video by default, and disallow autoplay without it.
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.
Why are there so many people in the comments staning YouTube?
I, for once, defend Youtube because at least it allows me to change the volume via an extension (YT Magic or whatever the name is).
On the other end, all of the Vine (yes, I am that old) style videos don’t have native volume control, which drives me insane. Talking about PC, phone has it’s own built in VC. Kinda explains where the market is going, eh?
Wait I’m sorry, you’re defending Youtube… because a third-party extension re-adds the controls they don’t provide?
Well, yes. I defend their “short videos” part, not the site as a whole.
Do you think YouTube’s UI is bad?
For these stupid fucking shorts, definitely. Yes.
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This is what I hate about shorts… I can’t skip to the relevant part if I kiss something before it loops
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.
ok but who’s that girl?
i appreciate the effort
