YouTube is the worst with this, because they’ve even gone so far as to convert older videos under 1 minute to shorts. They weren’t uploaded as shorts, but now congratulations you can’t scrub through the video or share a timestamped link anymore.
Has anyone noticed YouTube’s video compression has become much worse lately?
I tried watching a video I’ve seen before and I felt like I stepped back into 2007 again. That same video wasn’t like that last year.
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Netflix definitely increased 1080p compression (or said better, nerfed it). 1080p even looks a little pixelated on my mobile phone now when it looked great on a PC monitor a few years ago.
Yes. Auto is essentially the “720p or less but we’re gonna lie and say it’s 1080p still” option now. I’m constantly having to manually choose my resolution to get the full bitrate.
Firefox, right click, show video controls
They fucking what!?
Anyway, the “Enhancer for YouTube” addon has an option to force a normal player for the shorts.
I think there’s client sided stuff to do to solve that still, I’m 90% sure on my pc shorts open as normal videos due to an add-on I added a long time ago (the most popular for modding the look and feel of it, someone definitely can add it because I’m out of the house)
I think it’s called YouTube shorts block
GET OUT HERE AND WATCH YOUR FAKE PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
TikTok has controls now actually.
There’s a scrollbar, playback speed, PIP mode, zoom, captions, and you can remove the Like, Comment, Share buttons as well (they call it Clear Display mode). Videos with different aspect ratios can also be put in landscape mode for better viewing.
Now? They’ve had controls for nearly 2 years at least.
Hopefully that means all the trend chasers trying to copy tiktok will copy that too.
Can we standardized the PornHub video player already?
PornHub is going to rebrand and take over the video streaming market, watch.
You can guess why I don’t use Tiktok, Instagram, Youtube shorts and even that Reddit video player thingy.
For Youtube you can “get back the controls” by replacing youtube.com/shorts with youtu.be (at least for nooooooow).
I thought for shorts they added a controller. I use it.
Now can you get rid of all that text and buttons all over the place? It takes up half the screen and I can’t see the subs.
This, and autoplay muted videos in a feed like Twitter or Facebook drive me crazy.
You click unmute but you’ve missed 15-30 seconds of audio, so then you have to restart the video and click again.
Just add a “unmute and restart” button!
ok but who’s that girl?
The best days of the internet are behind us.
Early ebaumsworld was peak
Seriously, Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Facebook stories can go to hell.
Let’s build the Internet again, starting from Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. One step at a time.
I firmly believe videos without controls are just gifs with sound.
It’s designed to keep you rewatching until you get the info you want or give up and keep scrolling. Eroding your attention span in the process.
TikTok is an evil platform that I will never use till the day I die. Don’t @ me
I always wondered why people say “Don’t at me”. Finally figured out its because it meant to be “@” as in a ping.
YT Shorts, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Reels… These are things I just don’t bother watching.
The only reason social media companies took the controls away is because they know the videos being uploaded are shit but they want you to watch the whole thing for engagement. So they take away the controls to force that engagement. Go fuck yourself.
Also people who upload using these services - especially Shorts and Reels when other options exist on the same damn platform - are literally worse than Hitler.
Revanced for YouTube fixes that on android and there’s a couple of Firefox extensions that add controls and autoplay to shorts.
I also hate players where the overlay doesn’t go away. My girlfriend still watches videos on Facebook sometimes, and when she sends them to me, it always drives me crazy. You can’t see like 30% of the video, often the part of the screen where the captions are
TikTok has video controls. Tap to pause/play. And there’s a progress bar you can drag to seek. Instagram and YouTube shorts are much more difficult to control
Edit: you can even hold either edge of the screen to speed up the video in TikTok. And a 2 finger hold hides the caption and interface
