The best days of the internet are behind us.
Yep when everybody got smartphones it let all the dumb people on the internet who couldn’t use computers.
Then the portrait video orientation became the dumbass default video mode, even when the majority of videos would look 9000% better in proper landscape orientation. It all comes back to narcissism - people filming their own face and body in portrait mode because they think people need to see their face talking about every asinine opinion they think needs to be shared for attention-getting purposes.
Tiktok is the perfect example of everything wrong with it all now.
- Old person yelling at clouds
Any sane 25+ y/o would be enraged by today’s internet culture.
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Early ebaumsworld was peak
Somethingawful forums!
StumbleUpon!
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.
That’s why we all are here, aren’t we
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.
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)
EDIT: Someone who deleted their comment (saw the notification that stayed) got it right, it was Enhancer for YouTube. It’s the bees’ knees, very recommended for everything (except adblock, for that get uBlock origin)
I think it’s called YouTube shorts block
Youtube Enhancer is my bet. There are others but that’s the most popular. Also removes ads but I’m not sure that works anymore. uBlock and GreaseMonkey with the git script is the way to go for ads, just as a public service announcement.
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.
I would not be surprised at all if they are ramping up their compression algorithm to save additional bandwidth. Netflix has been feeling like that too. Blacks are a mess on both now. I get that it costs money but man you got to question where all of it is going for how much they make.
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.
Yet another +1 in piracy’s favor. Never had a video I got through a 🧲 look like shit
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.
YouTube Enhancer for the win. Or Revanced if you’re on Android.
It really makes their tests for the higher bit rate “1080p Premium” quality just seem like reducing the current 1080p and locking out the one we already had.
Are they actually doing that?
There was that whole controversy about the Wish trailers because of Youtube compression…
It’s annoying, but you can covert the garbage at the end of like the youtube.com/shorts/afaftxsdds to youtube.com/watch?v=afaftxsdds and it’ll behave and be able to be interacted with like a normal video.
They fucking what!?
Anyway, the “Enhancer for YouTube” addon has an option to force a normal player for the shorts.
Firefox, right click, show video controls
Revanced + disable shorts components
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
if they had their way they’d glue you to your seat, staple your eyes open, pin your arms down and play endless ads at you, purchasing on your behalf (with your credit card, of course) every time you watched one. Your ability to choose interferes with their business, which is sodomizing you and your family’s wallets.
Why are there so many people in the comments staning YouTube?
I, for once, defend Youtube because at least it allows me to change the volume via an extension (YT Magic or whatever the name is).
On the other end, all of the Vine (yes, I am that old) style videos don’t have native volume control, which drives me insane. Talking about PC, phone has it’s own built in VC. Kinda explains where the market is going, eh?
Wait I’m sorry, you’re defending Youtube… because a third-party extension re-adds the controls they don’t provide?
Well, yes. I defend their “short videos” part, not the site as a whole.
Do you think YouTube’s UI is bad?
For these stupid fucking shorts, definitely. Yes.
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YouTube shorts do have controls, you can scrub through the video with the progress bar along the bottom edge of the screen? Unless they’re getting rid of it.
It doesn’t super matter to me, I try really hard to avoid short form content. My attention span is bad enough as-is
It used to not work like that when shorts first came out, there wasn’t even a bottom bar iirc this must be an old meme
Gotcha, that makes sense
you can scrub through the video with the progress bar along the bottom edge of the screen?
Stop leaving question marks at the end of statements.
I will do what I please, thank you very much.
The point of language is to convey ideas, and sometimes the most succinct way to communicate what you think and that you’re open to people disagreeing or alternative perspectives is to end a statement with a question mark.
Telling other people how to communicate because what they said disagrees with rules you arbitrarily made up is dumb. The text you quoted conveyed exactly what I meant.
Its annoying? All it does is convey an inflection? People that talk like this in real life are fucking idiots?
If you misuse it to convey an inflection that doesn’t contextually make sense and use it over and over again, yes, it certainly is annoying.
You know what else is annoying? Badgering random people on the internet about using language in a way that you wouldn’t, despite the fact that it served their needs perfectly and conveyed exactly what they meant. You might even say that it’s something only “fucking idiots” who desperately need to feel smarter than others would do…
Also, in what world is “it only conveys inflection” a meaningful criticism- inflection is a vital part of communication thats often lost when interacting with people online. It helps convey what I mean, and therefore is an important part of communicating.
I would never do that?
The bar is there, but I’ve never actually gotten it to work, it ignores any presses/clicks that I make
Installed an extension to be able to see forward and back and change the volume. Volume is another one in a bad direction
Can’t speak for TikTok as i’ve never really used it, but Shorts and Reels do have a seek bar at the bottom of the screen. It’s barely noticeable at first but it’s there. And on Shorts you can tap once on the screen to pause the video if you’re on mobile.
Now, I love to hate on the smartphone-ification of web video as much as the next person, but this meme just feels like bait.
Doesn’t work on desktop
It’s not every YouTube short
There’s no need to skip forward with Facebook’s shorts, because the answer is no, there will be no pay off.
To be fair for Tiktok it doesn’t matter much since it’s selling point is shorts anyway. It’s basically Snapchat but less personal but with extra memes
tiktok you can 2x long pressing on one of the icons right bottom can’t remember which
Some TikToks have seek bars but it seems only longer ones do. Short ones don’t.
you feel like bait
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
TikTok has video controls you can move to any part of the video. It also has 2x play speed.
The meme lied?!?!
How can someone do this? Lie on the Internet!!!
All jokes aside, I am wrong in this specific regard then, but in my opinion the way the tiktok is designed as a whole is extremely harmful.
And you can hold down on the left-hand side of the screen to go to 2x temporarily, like YouTube does (but doesn’t do for shorts). I find that very convenient.
I always wondered why people say “Don’t at me”. Finally figured out its because it meant to be “@” as in a ping.
@ me
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.
literally worse than Hitler.
Any minute now, somebody’s gonna argue that it’s incorrect to use literally this way. Happens every time I see the word used here on Lemmy lol
There’s a name for that - it’s called Cunningham’s Law.
True, but only given that the first comment was wrong, which I wouldn’t say so. But I’ve seen people who would, so it works lol
And they’re wrong every time. You can use “literally” as a rhetorical exaggeration, bam, debate over. They’re the same as the “could care less” crowd. “I already care very little, but I could care even less”, solves it.
Well. You kind of did. Are you like Switzerland here?
Oh no haha, I don’t agree that it’s incorrect. I’m firmly on the pro-literally-as-a-hyperbole side lol
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.
Hopefully that means all the trend chasers trying to copy tiktok will copy that too.
Now? They’ve had controls for nearly 2 years at least.
Revanced for YouTube fixes that on android and there’s a couple of Firefox extensions that add controls and autoplay to shorts.
And Instander, an Instagram clone, gives you video controls for Instagram
I firmly believe videos without controls are just gifs with sound.
longpress the bottom of the screen, it brings up the seekbar.
Also … there’s a moded APK out there that removes ads, blocks some metadata capture and enables the seek bar on every video (and allows downloads)
100% agreed most videos are enjoyed best played in reverse! 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️
I’ve never tried it so I won’t argue against it.
