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Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector

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Post by somat »

brokenmachine wrote: post #50
somat wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote a userscript that turns the links into a /v/ link. The whole "shorts" concept is sort of stupid. I mean the videos are fine, let people make whatever sort of video they want. the front page promotion is unwanted. But the thing I actively despise is the scrolling auto play interface. However youtube will play the video with a sane interface when the /short/ link is modified into /v/ Or I should say, I nearly w…

My tampermonkey script (credit to the original author, I forget where I got it from): // ==UserScript== // @name Youtube shorts redirect // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.3 // @description Youtube shorts > watch redirect // @author // @match *://*.youtube.com/* // @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=youtube.com // @grant none // @run-at document-start // @license GNU GPLv2 // ==/UserScr…

For completeness here is mine. I will try yours and see if it works better.

  // ==UserScript==
  // @name         eat my shorts
  // @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
  // @version      0.1
  // @description  change links to youtube shorts to reguler site
  // @author       jrs
  // @match        https://www.youtube.com/*
  // @icon         none
  // @grant        none
  // ==/UserScript==
  
  (function() {
      'use strict';
      function eat_shorts() {
          const root = document;
          const shorts_re = /^\/shorts\/(.*)/;
          const ae = root.getElementsByTagName("a");
          for (var i = 0; i

Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector

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Post by efilife »

somat wrote: post #23
efilife wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A little nitpick, it's ?v= not /v/

shorts have a link like youtube.com/shorts/XXXXXXX changing that to youtube.com/v/XXXXXXX works. and the video is still stupid, but now you have a sane environment to watch it in.

I had no idea, thanks!

Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector

#53

Post by donutpepperoni »

kissgyorgy wrote: post #28

Shorts make me really mad. I use this Chrome extension to remove everything related to Shorts: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-youtube-short...

I think these short form videos will hurt us in the long run. Thank you for sharing this.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector

#54

Post by toxik »

cqqxo4zV46cp wrote: post #35
toxik wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They didn’t just copy tiktok, they made a poor version of it and jammed it into an existing app because they have a captive audience. I can uninstall tiktok, I can’t uninstall shorts.
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