[fotcorn]

Note that YouTube Shorts are just normal YouTube videos on a different URL. This means you can take a link to a Shorts like https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<id> and change it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<id>.

This way, you won't get the dreaded doomscroll interface, and you can also scrub through the video!

[toxik]

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.

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

They just copied TikTok.

[polywock]

Tip: you can click on any comment's date (e.g. 9 months ago) to automatically redirect to a standard Youtube video.

[Phiwise_]

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.

[pixelpoet]

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.

[ijustlovemath]

Even better, turn off your watch history and in a few months Shorts refuses to work :)