Leave it to big tech to introduce the same exact product with less features while they gaslight you into believing it’s a shiny new product that you should be excited about.
Give it a year after people has gotten used to it and forgot how it was. They’ll sell it back to you as a premium feature.
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Big tech is about big money, it has less and less to do with tech
YouTube is the worst with this, because they’ve even gone so far as to convert older videos under 1 minute to shorts. They weren’t uploaded as shorts, but now congratulations you can’t scrub through the video or share a timestamped link anymore.
I think there’s client sided stuff to do to solve that still, I’m 90% sure on my pc shorts open as normal videos due to an add-on I added a long time ago (the most popular for modding the look and feel of it, someone definitely can add it because I’m out of the house)
EDIT: Someone who deleted their comment (saw the notification that stayed) got it right, it was Enhancer for YouTube. It’s the bees’ knees, very recommended for everything (except adblock, for that get uBlock origin)
I think it’s called YouTube shorts block
Yeah don’t have the name now but at least for Firefox there is an addon that just plays them as normal videos.
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This comment is what happens when I try to reply to the deleted comment from the other guy. I think it’s because you must have commented after they deleted theirs, and maybe took their comment id or something.
Neat.
Has anyone noticed YouTube’s video compression has become much worse lately?
I tried watching a video I’ve seen before and I felt like I stepped back into 2007 again. That same video wasn’t like that last year.
I would not be surprised at all if they are ramping up their compression algorithm to save additional bandwidth. Netflix has been feeling like that too. Blacks are a mess on both now. I get that it costs money but man you got to question where all of it is going for how much they make.
Netflix definitely increased 1080p compression (or said better, nerfed it). 1080p even looks a little pixelated on my mobile phone now when it looked great on a PC monitor a few years ago.
Sometimes YouTube will bump you down to like 720p while still showing the quality as 1080p
I’m on gigabit fibre, so not sure why they would do that.I have noticed that though.
What I’ve noticed is the resolution isn’t necessarily lower, but the amount of detail and texture is lower
They do that to save bandwidth and money. It’s not your bandwidth they are trying to save, it’s theirs because streaming so many videos to so many people costs money. So they are trying to be sneaky and use lower quality settings as often as possible to reduce cost.
If you pause the video you can scrub by dragging the end of the bar. It’s terrible UX but it’s technically possible
OMG! I didn’t know that! Thank you! I’ve been having to watch videos again from the start when I accidentally navigate away.
Granted it’s a short time frame but still.
You don’t have to pause for this. I can just scroll from the thin red bottom bar
Firefox, right click, show video controls
You can scrub shorts on mobile (might have to pause it first), but not desktop for some reason…
They fucking what!?
Anyway, the “Enhancer for YouTube” addon has an option to force a normal player for the shorts.
Revanced + disable shorts components
The timestamp no, but the scrub works. I think on TikTok creators could disable that, not sure if YouTube offer that.
And the timestamp thing yeah… Although for so short videos to me is not that annoying. But yeah sucks.
In any case can you share an example of this converted videos? I have never seen it.
Especially with no volume knob on desktop. What in the actual fuck?
GET OUT HERE AND WATCH YOUR FAKE PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
TikTok has controls now actually.
There’s a scrollbar, playback speed, PIP mode, zoom, captions, and you can remove the Like, Comment, Share buttons as well (they call it Clear Display mode). Videos with different aspect ratios can also be put in landscape mode for better viewing.
Hopefully that means all the trend chasers trying to copy tiktok will copy that too.
Can we standardized the PornHub video player already?
PornHub is going to rebrand and take over the video streaming market, watch.
Really, people are most familiar with this rhan any other.
This, and autoplay muted videos in a feed like Twitter or Facebook drive me crazy.
You click unmute but you’ve missed 15-30 seconds of audio, so then you have to restart the video and click again.
Just add a “unmute and restart” button!
Or add another attribute explictly muting the video by default, and disallow autoplay without it.
ok but who’s that girl?
It’s Jess!
i appreciate the effort
Pro tip: if you replace “shorts/” with a “watch?v=” in the URL of a YouTube shorts video, you can watch it like a normal video.
Another pro tip: if you replace the entire URL to “https://www.who.int/health-topics/mental-health”, you can learn about mental health, which is an essential piece of knowledge in the case you watch YouTube shorts.
You can guess why I don’t use Tiktok, Instagram, Youtube shorts and even that Reddit video player thingy.
For Youtube you can “get back the controls” by replacing youtube.com/shorts with youtu.be (at least for nooooooow).
I thought for shorts they added a controller. I use it.
Now can you get rid of all that text and buttons all over the place? It takes up half the screen and I can’t see the subs.
The best days of the internet are behind us.
Seriously, Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Facebook stories can go to hell.
Let’s build the Internet again, starting from Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. One step at a time.
At least YouTube shorts has controls now. But videos more than a minute long are nice too.
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TikTok has video controls. Tap to pause/play. And there’s a progress bar you can drag to seek. Instagram and YouTube shorts are much more difficult to control
Edit: you can even hold either edge of the screen to speed up the video in TikTok. And a 2 finger hold hides the caption and interface
longpress the bottom of the screen, it brings up the seekbar.
Also … there’s a moded APK out there that removes ads, blocks some metadata capture and enables the seek bar on every video (and allows downloads)
