I just use this extension that plays them like normal videos. The UX for shorts is dumb as fuck
Comment on YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts
stray@pawb.social 6 days ago
Why don’t they just make them behave like normal videos? The problem with shorts is the repeating and the endless scrolling (and the ever-present prompt to scroll). A lot of perfectly useful/entertaining content has been recommended to me by the static presentation on the home screen.
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Noja@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
I use this simple userscript, no need for a random extension that only works in chrome greasyfork.org/en/scripts/…/code
magnue@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Same it’s the best of both. Sometimes I actually want to watch a short because it’s relevant. The problem is that the UI autoplays the next video and you can’t time scrub back to the bit you probably wanted to see a second time and before you know it you’re watching cat videos and 1 hour has passed.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
That’s the whole idea of shorts and tiktok style though; rapidly consuming quick content.
I think its interesting that for some people, that experience is deeply uncomfortable, and for others its necessary. It may sound over the top but I see a lot of parallels to hard drug addiction.
stray@pawb.social 5 days ago
I don’t think it’s necessary for anyone, though I understand you probably mean they feel it is. They’ve done at least one study I read which showed that being fed content actually makes you stupid in the immediate short-term (long-term was outside the scope of the study). Consuming the same content by selecting which ones you want to see caused no problems. It’s the removal of agency that’s thought to be the problem, training your brain to be passive.