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Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
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Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, I manually hide them every thirty days because I didn't know that ublock origin can do that, and I didn't want to install an extra add-on just for that (because I hoped that YouTube would some day realise how bad shorts are, and give up on them; wishful thinking, I know).
> I manually hide them every thirty days The inability of tech companies to accept that no means no, and not "bother me later" is a dark pattern that I've noticed more and more lately.
It seems to have gotten imbedded as 'just the way you ask users things' in UI developer's mindsets:
Do you want to enable push notifications?
[Yes please] [Later]
Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#33Note that YouTube Shorts are just normal YouTube videos on a different URL. This means you can take a link to a Shorts like " rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ and change it to " rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= . This way, you won't get the dreaded doomscroll interface, and you can also scrub through the video!
Tip: you can click on any comment's date (e.g. 9 months ago) to automatically redirect to a standard Youtube video.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plus adjust the volume! Really speaks to the modern state Google's in that they took out their own functionality to more closely clone TikTok, I assume. Paul Graham's got an old quote about what it indicated about Microsoft when they decided to clone Google's business, and it comes to mind every time I see those terrible and vertical thumbnails.
Wait, TikTok doesn't allow you to change the volume? That sure would explain the increase in blaring phones since they became popular with the idiocracy. Thanks to others who pointed out that uBlock origin can permanently disable (as opposed to being annoyed every 30 days) shorts on YT, instant quality of life improvement.
Except I watch most yt on my roku or google tv chromecast.
No fix for those unless it can be done in my opnsense router, but then that would break everything in the house when I am the only one who really hates shorts.
And to think I pay for yt. And let's not even get started about the blank home screen for the crime of turning off history.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#35Note that YouTube Shorts are just normal YouTube videos on a different URL. This means you can take a link to a Shorts like " rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ and change it to " rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= . This way, you won't get the dreaded doomscroll interface, and you can also scrub through the video!
Ludicrous that they made such an openly user-hostile interface. Won't show you runtime, won't show you the clip author, just maximally entice the user to click so they get sucked into the infinite dopamine machine. Absolutely unconscionable.
They just copied TikTok.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plus adjust the volume! Really speaks to the modern state Google's in that they took out their own functionality to more closely clone TikTok, I assume. Paul Graham's got an old quote about what it indicated about Microsoft when they decided to clone Google's business, and it comes to mind every time I see those terrible and vertical thumbnails.
Wait, TikTok doesn't allow you to change the volume? That sure would explain the increase in blaring phones since they became popular with the idiocracy. Thanks to others who pointed out that uBlock origin can permanently disable (as opposed to being annoyed every 30 days) shorts on YT, instant quality of life improvement.
You can change the volume on your phone just like you can with anything else.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, TikTok doesn't allow you to change the volume? That sure would explain the increase in blaring phones since they became popular with the idiocracy. Thanks to others who pointed out that uBlock origin can permanently disable (as opposed to being annoyed every 30 days) shorts on YT, instant quality of life improvement.
Regular YouTube videos on mobile also don't allow you to change the volume separate to the phone's 'master volume'. I don't think this is a TikTok/YouTube specific thing - you just don't see separate volume sliders on mobile like you would on a video playing on desktop.
Nor would I to, to be honest. That’s not the convention for mobile. I’d probably be confused if it were there.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#38Is there a way to get an RSS feed for a Youtube channel which excludes shorts?
Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#39Is there a way to get an RSS feed for a Youtube channel which excludes shorts?
I use wrapper RSS that adds 3 autogenerated thumbnails from which you see that it is short (because of the black boxes) and you can skip it. You can maybe analyze pixels of those thumbnails.
Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
#40Is there a way to get an RSS feed for a Youtube channel which excludes shorts?
Thankfully when the channels whose RSS I am subscribed to posts a YouTube short, they are kind enough to add hashtags all over the place. It's practically muscle memory now to mark any entry with a hashtag as red without checking