[fotcorn]

Note that YouTube Shorts are just normal YouTube videos on a different URL. This means you can take a link to a Shorts like https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<id> and change it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<id>.

This way, you won't get the dreaded doomscroll interface, and you can also scrub through the video!

[toxik]

Ludicrous that they made such an openly user-hostile interface. Won't show you runtime, won't show you the clip author, just maximally entice the user to click so they get sucked into the infinite dopamine machine. Absolutely unconscionable.

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

They just copied TikTok.

[toxik]

They didn’t just copy tiktok, they made a poor version of it and jammed it into an existing app because they have a captive audience. I can uninstall tiktok, I can’t uninstall shorts.

[polywock]

Tip: you can click on any comment's date (e.g. 9 months ago) to automatically redirect to a standard Youtube video.

[Phiwise_]

Plus adjust the volume! Really speaks to the modern state Google's in that they took out their own functionality to more closely clone TikTok, I assume. Paul Graham's got an old quote about what it indicated about Microsoft when they decided to clone Google's business, and it comes to mind every time I see those terrible and vertical thumbnails.

[pixelpoet]

Wait, TikTok doesn't allow you to change the volume? That sure would explain the increase in blaring phones since they became popular with the idiocracy.

Thanks to others who pointed out that uBlock origin can permanently disable (as opposed to being annoyed every 30 days) shorts on YT, instant quality of life improvement.

[boweruk]

Regular YouTube videos on mobile also don't allow you to change the volume separate to the phone's 'master volume'. I don't think this is a TikTok/YouTube specific thing - you just don't see separate volume sliders on mobile like you would on a video playing on desktop.

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

Nor would I to, to be honest. That’s not the convention for mobile. I’d probably be confused if it were there.

[addandsubtract]

VLC on mobile at least lets you swipe to change the volume.

[Phiwise_]

I was referring to desktop. Youtube shorts does not allow you to change the volume of the video on desktop, forcing you to open the volume dialog box and either turn down your whole computer or every window in your browser.

[Funes-]

>That sure would explain the increase in blaring phones since they became popular with the idiocracy.

Oh, not at all. It's just that there's no in-app volume control, so they depend entirely on the phone's media volume. This is common in most mobile applications, I'd say. So all those people glued to their blaring phones are morons, to put it plainly.

[Brian_K_White]

Except I watch most yt on my roku or google tv chromecast.

No fix for those unless it can be done in my opnsense router, but then that would break everything in the house when I am the only one who really hates shorts.

And to think I pay for yt. And let's not even get started about the blank home screen for the crime of turning off history.

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

You can change the volume on your phone just like you can with anything else.

[Phiwise_]

>Wait, TikTok doesn't allow you to change the volume?

Just a guess from Youtube's shorts not having it. I've never used it.

[ijustlovemath]

Even better, turn off your watch history and in a few months Shorts refuses to work :)