• Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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    I’m mostly fine with shorts, except for two things:

    1. You can’t move around in them, it’s either play or pause and repeat, which sucks (as shorts don’t have to be short…)

    2. On the homepage it doesn’t show who the short is from (which channel) without opening them

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      You can’t move around in them, it’s either play or pause and repeat, which sucks (as shorts don’t have to be short…)

      Oddly enough, this seems to be a desktop limitation. I can scrub backwards and forwards just fine on my phone.

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        Hopefully desktop PC hardware will become powerful enough to gain the ability to skip around in 30 second videos someday. I think I read that they expect them to be at parity with smartphone hardware in the next decade or two.

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      It’s also annoying that you can’t save them without using the hack where you change the URL.

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      You can scrub around in them. Look for the red bar on the bottom after the short starts. You can tap and drag on it and a little red circle will appear that will show briefly after you release.

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      You can move around in them. Atleast on Android, there is a hidden red bar at the bottom which becomes visible if you pause the video.

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      This is a problem with all of these Tik Tok clones (and even Tik Tok let’s you do it for some videos). It’d so annoying to be watching a 45 second reel but if I miss something, I have to watch the whole thing again

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        I have the exact opposite problem? I can skip around just fine in shorts, but can’t in reels… Is this due to A/B testing or am I dumb?

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      I simply prefer TikTok for short form videos due to unique community and reasonably entertaining algorithm.

      I enjoy YouTube to the point of paying for Premium but I hate that my YouTube subscriptions feed on TV is littered with shorts that I have no way of disabling other than hiding them one by one (which I do to make a point).

      Suits at Google will try to shove it into everyone’s throats until they get bored and someone adds it to killedbygoogle.com so why would anyone even bother with it.

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          I’m deep in Apple ecosystem and unfortunately this is not an option on Apple TV as far as I know.

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              In case of Apple TV, it’s the smoothest TV software experience, leaps and bounds above any ad-ridden smart TV or aging Nvidia Shield. I used Android TV and it’s just jank. For a time I had HTPC with Kodi too, it’s been relegated to hosting Plex and downloading stuff from Usenet. I enjoyed freedom to install anything but ultimately this didn’t outweight better audio codec support on Apple TV.

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                  Not sure what you’re making a stab at.

                  Apple software is obviously ad free and I have no problem with paying for YouTube Premium due to value it provides. Some good soul on Lemmy also recommended me a way to block sponsored content via isponsorblocktv which is a script that runs on my server and skips sponsored segments by reading YouTube app state and sending fast forward commands like a remote would.

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                    Not sure what you’re making a stab at.

                    The fact that you’re calling Android “ad-ridden” (which it’s not) in a conversation about how you can’t remove ads on Apple devices.

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        It’s amazing how much social credit you possibly have. Xi Jinping is proud of you.