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Comment by mcmoor

4 days ago

Vertical videos with much shitter UI. Inability to skip ahead or turn back may be understandable for <30 second videos, but not more.

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ringer  3 days ago

Shorts are normal videos too, so you can view them in the normal player.

I have a redirect rule that redirects https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<video-id> to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video-id>

joe_guy  4 days ago

And auto repeat, sadly.

  • gwd  3 days ago

    Auto-repeat is the thing that most mystifies me about shorts. I understand the idea behind auto-play, although I disable it; but who on earth wants to watch the exact thing they just watched by default?

    Given the success of TikTok, the answer is apparently, "billions of people", but I just don't get it.

    • justsomehnguy  3 days ago

      > but who on earth wants to watch the exact thing they just watched by default

      Wrong question.

      The right question is: "Do we blindly copy Instagram?"

    • wrxd  3 days ago

      My theory is that it is a way of forcefully grabbing people’s attention.

      Without autoplay there is no engagement once the video is over. With autoplay there is the risk someone leaves the player on the background and ignores it. With looping videos people get annoyed and (if they’re like me) close the tab or skip to the next video just to get something different

tpxl  3 days ago

Ctrl + Right click, Show controls will bring up the classic controls (play, pause, volume, seek, full screen) on Firefox. I'm sure other browsers have something similar. Haven't found a way to turn this on permanently for all videos though :/