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by ROFISH 1114 days ago
The worst part is that the Shorts interface on the desktop web is awful. I hate having to watch a Short there because all the buttons and UI are all completely different. I accidentally scroll down to view comments to see the pause button and instead just get to another video.

I'm sure some PM made that so that they can increase "next view" viewership, but all it does is insult me.

Yes, I know Shorts can be viewed with the regular video viewer by changing the URL, but that's a pain to do that on every video. Just give me my regular UI controls back and stop enforcing this silly vertical video format on a desktop.

Again, I understand why vertical videos are being promoted; mobile is indeed king, content is now made for mobile. Fine. But desktop is not mobile so give me my standard 16:9 controls back.
6 comments
RajT88 1114 days ago
For my money, the worst thing about shorts is how it automatically turns a short video into a "Short" which will crop a video shot in landscape to make it play in Portrait mode.

It actively is messing up video content.

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tzs 1114 days ago
> Yes, I know Shorts can be viewed with the regular video viewer by changing the URL, but that's a pain to do that on every video

There is a Chrome extension to do that automatically [1]. Here’s one for Firefox [2].

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-blo...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-short...

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whoisthis4chan 1113 days ago
awesome. thanks for the links!
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pynappo 1114 days ago
Generally I like YouTube shorts (at least compared to my tiktok feed which is not tailored to my tastes at all) but I'm really annoyed by the lack of a volume slider in the desktop shorts player.
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jimt1234 1114 days ago
The worst part is Joe Rogan. Nothing against him, but Shorts carpet bombs me with video clips of him. It's so annoying. I think I've watched one of his videos, the one with Elon hittin' the blunt, and now YouTube thinks I'm a Joe Rogan stan. Ugh!
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registeredcorn 1114 days ago
*Queue sigma grindset music*
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connorjf 1113 days ago
I have found that I gain almost nothing from YouTube shorts at best, and at worst they are a blackhole for my time. I added these[1] filters to uBlock and it hides shorts and brings back the vanilla YouTube experience

[1] https://letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts

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gloryjulio 1114 days ago
There are lots shorts blocker extension u can use in the browser.
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