• 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

    • Lupec@lemm.eeEnglish
      107·
      3 months ago

      Best I can do is unhinged and passionate, take it or leave it

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      28·
      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
        12·
        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.

      • Miphera@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        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.

      • tyler@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        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

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      Or how “watch later” is a playlist that I can’t exit out of. I use watch later for hour long videos. I don’t want them to auto play

    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Not even just the fucking UI. I have bad internet so it takes several minutes to watch a short, presuming jt ever works. And it’s just shorts. A full video loads no problem, but a short requires so much to even try to start playing.

      • Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I suspect it’s also frantically trying to preloaded a bunch of other videos.

        On my laptop, the UI is unresponsive for a solid minute until it loads several pages worth of comments and videos down the right side. It’s idiotic.

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I just hate the fact that when I open the youtube app, it just starts playing a random short. I have to stop the short to go to the search field which is the reason I opened the app.