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by danuker 1585 days ago
I only use YouTube through my PC and NewPipe. I did not get any Shorts recommended to me so far.

I believe I encountered an A/B test starting today. While looking at a channel, I saw the Short under "Videos" as a regular video. But refreshing the page, I can no longer see it there, but only on the channel page, under Shorts.

I discovered that a Short can be viewed as a video by replacing its https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<ID> URL with regular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<ID>.

I despise the fact that I can't rewind. Needless to say, the experience falls... short.