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Willy @Kypetzl2/10/2023, 1:33 AM

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bcj @bcj2/8/2023, 6:48 PM

Accidentally watched a youtube short

what the fuck, it doesn't give you controls for scrubbing through the video. I missed the beginning of the video someone linked to and my options were refresh the page or wait for it to loop. Why would anyone want it to work this way?

Vera Lycaon @VeraLycaon2/8/2023, 8:49 PM

hot tip if you're on desktop

anytime you get shanghaied into watching a short, replace the shorts/ in the URL with watch?v= to force the regular video interface

no idea what possessed YouTube to even push them other than "we gotta corner TikTok's market somehow", but it's something at least

Tamber @tamber2/9/2023, 10:55 PM

If you're using firefox, there's an addon that lets you modify URLs with regex, so you don't have to manually scrungle the url.

With that installed, in the addon's preferences, you add the following rule (don't add the backticks, that's just me trying to markdown format this properly):

format: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/(.*)
destination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\1

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Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF2/8/2023, 6:50 PM

They suck so bad. Youtube trying to compete with Tiktok in the most half-assed way possible

Chaia Eran @ChaiaEran2/8/2023, 6:54 PM

The Youtube Redux extension can turn Youtube Shorts back into normal videos

bcj @bcj2/8/2023, 6:54 PM

ooh, interesting

Quilynn @qln2/9/2023, 5:42 AM

I use a different browser extension, there are a bunch. YouTube shorts have been a problem for me so this is the only way I can use YouTube now, like I just had to delete the app on my phone too.

protected concerted activity enthusiast @BlueSpaceCanary2/8/2023, 7:39 PM

I think the answer is basically "it's designed solely for the mobile UI". At least on tiktok (I've never used YT shorts but I assume it works similarly?) there's a threshold of video length below which it won't let you scrub, and as best as I can tell the reason is probably that they found scrubbing on a phone too clunky below like 20s or whatever

It's not a good reason and it really should have a toggleable "always enable scrubbing" option, but,

bcj @bcj2/8/2023, 7:43 PM

really didn't expect to find something that made tiktok's desktop interface seem good. If nothing else, I'm surprised it doesn't have a 'restart' button

Caro @caro2/8/2023, 8:46 PM

there's a way to access them as normal videos, at least on the mobile app. the bad part is that i dont know how to consistently pull it off it seems random

\phi @phi2/9/2023, 1:46 AM

On teh browser, u can replace urls of teh form

youtube.com/shorts/ABunchOfStuff

to teh form:

youtube.com/watch?v=ABunchOfStuff

Which fur me has worked consistently in making it a normal bideo, at leasf fur now. On teh app (which I don't use too much, admitedly) teh only way I managed to do it consistently was by searching teh video title or url and saving it in "watch later", which puts it in a playlist which makes it a normal mideo.

unarei @noa2/9/2023, 3:00 AM

when i first tried tiktok, i expected to be able to scrub the video. some other apps have swipe left/right to scrub and tiktok isn't using that gesture. but no. who needs scrubbing anyway i guess.