• 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
      2·
      4 months ago

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

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      4 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.

      • Miphera@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 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
        1·
        4 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

    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      4 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.

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 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.