I’m not wild about vertical videos either. But are you sure a technical solution is the best solution for this issue?
Browser extension that globally blocks vertical video?
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#12On youtube you can block the section with shorts in them with ublock (rclick > block element), this was good enough for my use. I don't know about other sites.
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#13It would be very hard to get rid of portrait videos that were uploaded as landscape but padded with black bars.
But I would instantly install a browser extension that makes youtube shorts go away. I avoid them studiously because I find that whenever I click them, I come to 45 minutes later, deep inside a rabbit hole of everything that makes the internet horrible. Making them go away altogether would significanly improve my mental health.
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirect-shor... which does exactly this. It's a simple redirect rule that shows the same video but in the normal video player.
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#14I dislike vertical video also. Last I checked, phones can rotate 90 degrees to play landscape video. On a related note, is there a browser that can completely block auto-playing video with a setting that actually works? I find it depressing that web developers seem willing to do anything to ignore user preferences, especially when intrusive advertising is involved.
I don’t want to rotate my phone just to view your video.
Funny, I have the same thought about vertical video and rotating my laptop and desktop display.
Phones are commonly used in horizontal mode for games, photos, and video streaming.
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#15I need a browser extension to block video autoplay because no browser setting seems to work consistently.
Safari in particular has never worked, but I've had bad luck with Chrome and Firefox as well.
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#16Someone should use generative AI to convert portrait video into landscape by extending the sides (rather than cropping).
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t want to rotate my phone just to view your video.
Funny, I have the same thought about vertical video and rotating my laptop and desktop display. Phones are commonly used in horizontal mode for games, photos, and video streaming.
If I’m watching a two hour video, I’ll flip my phone. But if I’m cycling between reading articles and other activities for which I prefer vertical mode, then I’d rather keep it in that orientation than switch it just to watch a video.