- see cool video on front page
- click
- “Haha, fuck you, you’ve just clicked on the invisible button that takes up half the thumbnail like a fucking moron!”
- redirected to the sponsorship info page
- go back
- video gone
why are you completely incapable of making a functional website you wet dildo
I’ve given up on YouTube because of its terrible interface and just use tube archivist + Jellyfin.
Would you like to engage in a polite and collected conversation about the YouTube Shorts UI?
You can take the video ID of a shorts URL and paste it into a regular video URL to open it in the less dogshit UI. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fxJicOO_dBw
->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJicOO_dBw
You could make a greasemonkey script that does this automatically.
- go back
- video gone
That part is the worst. I am sick and tired of websites breaking the back button! When I click back it’s because I wanted to see the thing that was there before. If I wanted it to just refresh from scratch I would reload the page instead!
It’s not just YouTube, by the way. Even Lemmy does that shit too!
I still see websites doing that shit where you click back and end up on a page that redirects you to where you where.