• see cool video on front page
  • click
  • “Haha, fuck you, you’ve just clicked on the invisible button that takes up half the thumbnail like a fucking moron!”
  • redirected to the sponsorship info page
  • go back
  • video gone

why are you completely incapable of making a functional website you wet dildo

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    You can take the video ID of a shorts URL and paste it into a regular video URL to open it in the less dogshit UI. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fxJicOO_dBw -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJicOO_dBw

    You could make a greasemonkey script that does this automatically.

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Oh wow that’s such a good idea. I’d probably still just continue not ever watching yt shorts since they are generally really bad but if I ever for some reason need to see one I’d love to be able to actually have video player controls on it.

    • tyler@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I have a ff plugin or script or something that does it. It’s the only thing that makes shorts bearable and usable

    • Miphera@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’ll do you one better: just replace the “shorts” with a “v”, and it’ll redirect you to the video version as well.

      Bonus: since the “shorts” part of the URL is between two slashes, double clicking it will mark just that part.