The sheer number of videos taken “the wrong way round” (for my computer’s monitor) is mind-boggling. I get that some people watch videos on their phones, but is it really that many?

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    I hope AI can soon fix this, that we can record everything in wide format, and that AI cuts it down to various screen sizes. I dislike VVS, but I can also imagine watching landscape content in portrait is also annoying.

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    YouTube started monetizing Shorts and reduced the payouts to regular long form YouTube videos which is anything wide screen and over 60 seconds. It’s pretty much forcing content creators to start doing Shorts if they want to try and not lose as much revenue

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      TIL, that’s just screwed. Sometimes short form content can be interesting, but 99% of the time I want a video I can watch along to. It’s terrible and I don’t understand the intense appeal these have. Didn’t Vine start it all?

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      1 year ago

      For uBlock:

      ! YT Homepage - Hide the Shorts section
      youtube.com##[is-shorts]
      ! YT Menu - Hide the Shorts button
      www.youtube.com###guide [title="Shorts"], .ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer[title="Shorts"]
      ! YT Search - Hide Shorts
      www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-video-renderer)
      ! YT Search and Channels - Hide the Shorts sections
      www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer
      ! YT Channels - Hide the Shorts tab
      www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="channels"] [role="tab"]:nth-of-type(3):has-text(Shorts)
      ! YT Subscriptions - Hide Shorts - Grid View
      www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-grid-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-grid-video-renderer)
      ! YT Subscriptions - Hide Shorts - List View
      www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer)
      ! YT Sidebar - Hide Shorts
      www.youtube.com###related ytd-compact-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-compact-video-renderer)
      
      
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        1 year ago

        Seems quite extensive, but… do I place some and/or all of it on the “My rules” or “My filters” tab on uBlock?

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    1 year ago

    I would assume because most videos are taken from mobile now. Camera quality in phones is crazy good now.

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    1 year ago

    Yes mobile devices have far surpassed desktop / laptop computers in usage numbers as of years ago. Landscape was probably the preferred video format for a long time because it works for both mobile and desktop but the mobile dominance is so high at this point in life that I’ll bet no one cares.

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      1 year ago

      On my phone I prefer landscape though. I don’t watch any videos in portrait so I skip them. It’s no effort to flip the phone sideways lol…

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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t even mind vertical videos that much, but the real fucking cancer are vertical videos with baked-in black borders for 16:9 ratio, so you can’t view them comfortably on anything and the resolution is like 1/4 of the original.

    Bonus if those borders are also filled with ads or other annoying bullshit.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know why creators even do that with the black borders… you can’t even watch those on a phone. Annoys the crap out of me.