Turns shorts into “normal” videos. Still the same orientation but at least a player that doesn’t loop and even applies SponsorBlock rules if there are any.
I do actually find some interesting shorts every now and then after avoiding them for years. However it completely fucks up my recommendations and you can’t remove them from the watch list as easily…
So if I watch a couple I’ll be suggested shorts for a week or so…
Yeah, it’s a pretty long rectangle and is going to make some funny looking images. I will add a hyperlink to the full-size image in the pinned thread for the week.
Shorts are mostly just disappointing. Sometimes I don’t notice that I’m clicking a short because the title seemed interesting. Then after 30 seconds it’s already done, and all those times the content wasn’t even that good! You would think that maybe they could condense the best parts of a long video into a shorter one, but instead they just lack any depth and information.
In the same vein, the way Instagram is pushing their (autoplaying) Reels is even worse.
You would think that maybe they could condense the best parts of a long video into a shorter one
Some channels do this, and I think it’s a really good use for the platform. Nerdforge is one channel that comes to mind - she has a few videos that are a 1 minute short (e.g. youtu.be/5QNIgDFq-vw) summarizing a 20 minute video (youtu.be/ZVqa7j6jG0Q)
What pisses me off the most is channels I used to like, stuff like Scam Nation who now repackages all their old content as shorts. And so I unsubscribe because I don’t want that level of spam.
Youtube Shorts sounds like an interesting idea, that has all the problems of Tiktok, and then clutters up Youtube. It would be SO easy for people to be able to opt out of Shorts, but that’s not how it works, and Youtube’s UI keeps pushing them to the point where I stop looking at my notifications.
Yeah, the easiest option for Google/YT would be to keep Shorts to the Shorts category only/mainly, and keep the ability for users to opt out of Shorts in the platform’s players. That way, creators who want to push 5 to 30 second videos instead of 10 - 200 minutes would still get their 15 minutes seconds of fame.
But now, they aren’t just pushing Shorts on us viewers, they are forcing channels to do Shorts to get better visibility.
I hadn’t used anything except my account logged in through RiF for 13 years. When I checked the front page as a guest I realized finally just how bad reddit is. All the posts were hot garbage surrounded by ads. I honestly don’t know how people use reddit now.
More and more I think that might be the point. In the absence of users having control over the content they see, the only users left will be the ones who are naive, not tech savvy, and who have very high tolerances for manipulation: people who don’t leave because either they don’t know how, can’t understand or remember a possible better alternative, or can’t muster the effort.
These are incidentally also the same people who are most likely to be unable to distinguish ads from content, most likely to click on ads, and most likely to engage with click- and rage- bait content. That is: people most vulnerable to corporate predation.
It’s just like scam robocalls. It’s bad by design, because half the point is to immediately weed out anybody smart enough not to fall for it.
This is probably a USPS transfer package and got lost either at Fedex or USPS, which is why the delivery date keeps bouncing around.
Packages like that are delivered to USPS in bags, and the contents are “logically scanned”. If someone scanned it going into the bag, then you can usually assume that its still in the bag at the other end. However, that’s not always true.
They might find it later, but just showing up at Fedex is likely to be a waste of your time until that delivery date updates (indicating that someone has found and physically scanned the package).
The “we’re gonna get this to you early!” Usually means that you were scheduled to receive a more expensive service package on that day, so it doesn’t cost Fedex any more money to deliver both of them.
Otherwise they would give it to the post office on Monday and you would get it in +one business day
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