▲ 72 ▼ YouTube Shorts auto-restart: terrible for those with ADHD (sopuli.xyz) submitted 4 weeks ago by FaeriesWearBoots@sopuli.xyz to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments I only justed noticed this today, every few minutes a paused YouTube shorts window will restart and try to pull your attention. If you are distractable, close that shit!
[–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children) Another reason I have shorts hidden with untrap permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] RandomStranger@piefed.social 6 points 4 weeks ago (3 children) Shorts as a format I think are fine. However, you should click on the videos deliberately after reading the titel and watching the thumbnail, like all other videos. Not use the "TikTok" feed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago Protip: If you replace the "shorts" in the URI with "watch", the short gets treated like a normal video and gets the usual UI. There are browser extensions that automatically redirect you so you never have to deal with the weird shorts interface. Well, for Gecko. I'm not sure if Chromium extensions can do that these days. permalink fedilink source parent [–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago Agreed... Unfortunately that is how they are delivered so I hide it from homepage and bar... If I want to watch them I go to a specific creator page for their content with auto play disabled permalink fedilink source parent [–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago Morphite has a way to do this (by replacing the shorts player with the normal player) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RandomStranger@piefed.social 6 points 4 weeks ago (3 children) Shorts as a format I think are fine. However, you should click on the videos deliberately after reading the titel and watching the thumbnail, like all other videos. Not use the "TikTok" feed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago Protip: If you replace the "shorts" in the URI with "watch", the short gets treated like a normal video and gets the usual UI. There are browser extensions that automatically redirect you so you never have to deal with the weird shorts interface. Well, for Gecko. I'm not sure if Chromium extensions can do that these days. permalink fedilink source parent [–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago Agreed... Unfortunately that is how they are delivered so I hide it from homepage and bar... If I want to watch them I go to a specific creator page for their content with auto play disabled permalink fedilink source parent [–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago Morphite has a way to do this (by replacing the shorts player with the normal player) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago Protip: If you replace the "shorts" in the URI with "watch", the short gets treated like a normal video and gets the usual UI. There are browser extensions that automatically redirect you so you never have to deal with the weird shorts interface. Well, for Gecko. I'm not sure if Chromium extensions can do that these days. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago Agreed... Unfortunately that is how they are delivered so I hide it from homepage and bar... If I want to watch them I go to a specific creator page for their content with auto play disabled permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago Morphite has a way to do this (by replacing the shorts player with the normal player) permalink fedilink source parent