- 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
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_dBwYou could make a greasemonkey script that does this automatically.
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.
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.
I have a ff plugin or script or something that does it. It’s the only thing that makes shorts bearable and usable