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this isn't Hades II. the media still pauses.

On mainline youtube, for now at least. Just look at how unusable youtube shorts are. Want to rewind? Too bad for you.

Never understood the appeal of "take as much control from user as possible" for shorts. Maybe I wouldnt actively hate it if it allowed basic playback control, but for some reason Youtube thinks thats not cool anymore.

If you want to go back on YouTube Shorts you just pause the short and swipe at the bottom (on mobile) and on desktop you don’t even have to pause first, you can just hover the scrubber and drag it around.

This did used to suck, but it’s been more a case of the YouTube Shorts player being very behind TikTok and the regular YouTube player and they’ve only slowly made changes. I would argue they took too long to make these QoL improvements, but they did make them.

I am ashamed to admit that, once or twice, I was curious enough to want to rewind an ad, but that does seem impossible. (Thankfully, commenting on them is impossible as well.)

That is somewhat strange since, if the ad was useful, you'd might wanna watch it again. In theory.

Like, there is no 'ad viewing history' either.

I guess the ad industry does not care about useful at all nowadays.

Older commercials was filled with stats, properties and arguments. Like a TV shop channel. Nowadays it mainly seems to be some Amazon sellers that try to convince you with that tactic.

Just add YouTube Shorts redirect to your browser. It's still available as regular videos.

I had no idea that was an option, thanks for the tip!

Replace shorts with v in the url to get the regular player

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