The sheer number of videos taken “the wrong way round” (for my computer’s monitor) is mind-boggling. I get that some people watch videos on their phones, but is it really that many?
I wouldn’t even mind vertical videos that much, but the real fucking cancer are vertical videos with baked-in black borders for 16:9 ratio, so you can’t view them comfortably on anything and the resolution is like 1/4 of the original.
Bonus if those borders are also filled with ads or other annoying bullshit.
I don’t know why creators even do that with the black borders… you can’t even watch those on a phone. Annoys the crap out of me.
YouTube started monetizing Shorts and reduced the payouts to regular long form YouTube videos which is anything wide screen and over 60 seconds. It’s pretty much forcing content creators to start doing Shorts if they want to try and not lose as much revenue
TIL, that’s just screwed. Sometimes short form content can be interesting, but 99% of the time I want a video I can watch along to. It’s terrible and I don’t understand the intense appeal these have. Didn’t Vine start it all?
Yes mobile devices have far surpassed desktop / laptop computers in usage numbers as of years ago. Landscape was probably the preferred video format for a long time because it works for both mobile and desktop but the mobile dominance is so high at this point in life that I’ll bet no one cares.
On my phone I prefer landscape though. I don’t watch any videos in portrait so I skip them. It’s no effort to flip the phone sideways lol…
I think it’s about short-form vs long-form content.
For casual short videos like TikTok or random shorts that scroll by in Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube, portrait makes sense because most people have their phone in that orientation.
For long-form video, landscape is still the norm.
Not keen on vertical content if it’s anything more than a few seconds. This portrait-first approach really seems to have taken off with YouTube Shorts, Instagram and TikTok but for long form videos it’s a no-go
The overwhelming majority of internet users do so on mobile devices (92%+) and the majority of internet traffic is to mobile devices (55-60% depending on who you ask).
It’s also to the point where it’s not uncommon for people to not even own a desktop or laptop anymore unless they have a specific need for it. Instead phones and tablets are much more common among people who only ever used computers for casual internet browsing.
Youtube is using Shorts to try to compete with TikTok in shortform video.
lol, I initially misread it as “shitform”
It is mis-written as shortform
I wish I could at least block Shorts.
For uBlock:
! YT Homepage - Hide the Shorts section youtube.com##[is-shorts] ! YT Menu - Hide the Shorts button www.youtube.com###guide [title="Shorts"], .ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer[title="Shorts"] ! YT Search - Hide Shorts www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-video-renderer) ! YT Search and Channels - Hide the Shorts sections www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer ! YT Channels - Hide the Shorts tab www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="channels"] [role="tab"]:nth-of-type(3):has-text(Shorts) ! YT Subscriptions - Hide Shorts - Grid View www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-grid-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-grid-video-renderer) ! YT Subscriptions - Hide Shorts - List View www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer) ! YT Sidebar - Hide Shorts www.youtube.com###related ytd-compact-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-compact-video-renderer)Doesn’t seem to work. Do I need to restart? I still see #shorts videos in my sub feed.
I’m using uBlock Origin.
Seems quite extensive, but… do I place some and/or all of it on the “My rules” or “My filters” tab on uBlock?
Paste it at the bottom of your “my filters” section. Be sure to “Apply” when done.
“Enhacer for YouTube” (a Firefox extension, and maybe Chromium too) hides shorts for good.
i have a browser extension that does it
Today’s younger generation mostly watch content on their phones, Instagram, tik tok, YouTube etc. They’re holding their phone portrait to view this content so that’s how they produce content. And that’s a popular demographic to target so yeah, it’s catching on for better or worse
Is there a way to block all shorts in my youtube feed?
the only way I found is to press the X on top right and then it is hidden (in theory) for 1 month or so, haven’t checked if it’s for all devices though. I hate with passion that there is no way of permanently disable it (last time I checked)
If someone knows a way I’ll be happy to know it :-)
Because corporate enshittification aka “mobile first”, “stories” etc.
Mobile first is a good, valid approach for responsive UI. But these amateur webdevs do mobile ONLY neglecting other UI densities and form factors so all corporate websites look like half-assed phone apps. Not to mention the usage of bloated frameworks to save time.
Although funny enough, after shorts showing up and getting big attention, I noticed more and more youtubers making longer and longer videos, as if they were trying to go to the polar opposite of shorts
I hope AI can soon fix this, that we can record everything in wide format, and that AI cuts it down to various screen sizes. I dislike VVS, but I can also imagine watching landscape content in portrait is also annoying.
It’s not convenient to rotate a screen on a computer to watch a video but a phone? It uses fewer calories than eating celery to rotate a phone.
@Ataraxia i can imagine that scrolling trough a feed, you don’t want to be turning your phone every 10seconds.
yeah young people these days innit. now get off my lawn.
they try hard to beat tiktok, that’s why, and every new feature gets a huge reach, which makes people use it more and more. it kinda sucks ngl
I would assume because most videos are taken from mobile now. Camera quality in phones is crazy good now.
I mean, like I suspect for most people, my phone is my camera too, but it’s perfectly capable of taking landscape videos.
My Moto G Stylus even does landscape videos with the phone held vertical. Moto gets me.
Right. I only take vertical if I’m showing a tree or a plant but for a scene or most other pics it’s horizontal.
The large majority of content is also consumed on phones, so confirming to computers is making less sense
Can’t wait for the first Hollywood movie in portrait format! /s
I had to look up the name but Qibi was (…is…?) a streaming service specialising in precisely that.
Seems like something Rian Johnson would do.
