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Why would one want to create more of those abominations?

One reason I deleted all my yt videos was because YT converted half of them to "shorts" without asking and with no way back, breaking all navigation and losing the readily available comment section and description.

Just not the way I wanted my work presented.

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> Why would one want to create more of those abominations?

Because we're regressing as a civilization and soon, content like what's being generated here will be the only thing consumed by the majority (read: the only form of profitable/growth-producing content).

I'm a major proponent of Joseph Juran style "quality thinking," but sadly, that world is dead and gone on a mass consumption scale (what platforms like YouTube are geared towards these days).

De-Evolution has been proven correct.

Fun fact: The popularizers (Devo) were at Kent State when US troops killed US citizens on US soil and knew the deceased…recently revealed after decades…

De-Evolving to remove humans from the equation is the logical conclusion.

Resistance is futile. We •will• adapt.

You used to be able to access shorts as normal videos even after they rolled out normal videos by using the original video link. Did they remove this?

No, in fact I keep a very handy redirect in Redirector for this specific usecase:

         {
            "description": "Youtube shorts to something useful",
            "exampleUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iB9KMNzNIZI",
            "exampleResult": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB9KMNzNIZI",
            "error": null,
            "includePattern": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/*",
            "excludePattern": "",
            "patternDesc": "",
            "redirectUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1",
            "patternType": "W",
            "processMatches": "noProcessing",
            "disabled": false,
            "grouped": false,
            "appliesTo": [
                "main_frame"
            ]
        },

Nice! I had not thought of creating a redirect, but I have now added this. I currently filter out all short content but on the rare occasion that I get linked a short this will come in handy. Thanks!

If you open the comments section you can click on the date of a comment and it will open it in the regular video UI.

Is Redirector an extension?

Yep, available for multiple browsers and quite powerful in my opinion: https://www.einaregilsson.com/redirector/

It doesn't matter what I could. I did not make videos so that I can look at them myself. :) But nice trick for viewing other's videos.

The only reason is to collect advertiser dollars.

> because YT converted half of them to "shorts" without asking and with no way back

Wait, what? What the hell! That’s terrible. I am out of touch with all of these new “features”. Looks like content creators can’t use YouTube any more.

I make DVDs (ConvertXtoDVD) and give them to donors I meet in person, meaning I keep everything, nobody can take down or edit my content…etc…

Sneakernet has advantages.

It's one way to kill them.

“Your work”, is their “content”.

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