Is the physical format intended for better viewing on a phone?
I’ll add that Facebook is doing something similar; they call them “Reels” but it’s the same idea – their algorithm suggests a bunch of short < 1 minute videos in your news feed.
And I concur that both the YouTube “Shorts” and Facebook “Reels” are attempting to capture some of the TikTok audience.
Same.
Yes, I know in the past there were two similarly named products and one was good, the other bad.
I believe that signing in with an account that has parental controls enabled will block the comments.
I installed uBlockOrigin, and with one or two clicks it installed itself automatically in my browser. It never asked me to sign up with an account, and never mentioned any kind of options (like parental controls).
And now, even after removing UblcokOrigin, the comments are still blocked.
I think that poster meant that signing into YouTube with an account could do that.
I don’t sign into youtube, either. But comments are blocked
Assuming you properly uninstalled uBlock Origin, try YouTube with an incognito window. If comments aren’t blocked, try clearing your YouTube cookies in your browser?
I made a few short videos a few years ago, and I was surprised that YouTube converted them to Shorts on their own.
Interesting, maybe obnoxious on their part. Are they all filmed vertically? Or do they add blurry borders?
A few of them were vertical videos, but one was filmed horizontally. I think they just cut it down to fit.
Just as a data point, I don’t find this to be the case; I make a few shorts, when I feel like it, or not; weeks or months may pass when I don’t make any. I don’t think it makes any difference, for me. Maybe it’s different for more ‘trending topic’ types of channels, and maybe it’s the case that if someone goes wholesale on shorts, then tries to ease off, that might adversely affect recommendations.
I dunno. The workings of the recommendations algorithm are not public (by design, YT doesn’t divulge how it works, because that would give people information to subvert it), so anyone who makes statements about it, is speculating - with evidence in the form of their own experience of course, which is not invalid, but is also not likely to be the whole picture.
Shorts are very likely part of the set of factors that the recommendations algorithm uses, but I don’t think it’s quite so simple as ‘Your channel dies if you don’t’
Some cameras (like the x360) can export the same footage as a single operation in vertical and horizontal aspect ratios by cropping (the nature of that camera is that all footage exported involves cropping from a wider shot anyway - it’s a feature).
Similarly some video editing software can be configured to export a full video in wide format and a short from the same edit in vertical format.
The ‘Shorts Sampling’ feature inside of YouTube takes a vertically-cropped section out of any existing video, I believe - I haven’t tried it.
If something is getting around the PiHole, that usually means the device has it’s own DNS info and doesn’t use yours.
There’s tricks to get around it, but I haven’t had to employ any of them, so other than knowing of them, I’ve never used any of them.
I’ve never had that issue, there could very well be something wonky in one of your settings. However, and this is important, uBlock is not the same as uBlock Origin. Make sure you’re installing uBlock Origin.
They do have to be taller than they are wide; not necessarily vertical 9:16 or anything, just at least one pixel taller than they are wide. If you upload a 30 second video that’s square or wider than it is tall, tagging it as a short won’t work.
Except you don’t have any volume controls (other than muted/unmuted) and you have no way to skip around within the video.
I think you mean X. It shall henceforth no longer be referred to as the T word.
On desktop, you can replace the word ‘shorts’ in the URL with ‘watch’ and you get to watch the video in the normal YouTube interface. Bit of a faff, but it works.
That’s a bit superior to what I do. After clicking on the short, if it has at least one comment, I click on it, then click on the comment’s time, which takes me to the standard youtube display. If it has no comments, then I’m stuck.
I don’t use Tiktok, so the shorts were new to me. The first night I spent 3 hours looking at them. Finally I realized if I used the trick I described, that would break my automatic clicking on the next short. Since then that’s worked really well.
I never use volume when watching videos - Youtube, TikTok, Instagram, etc. Rarely do mindless videos impart anything meaningful, just people exclaiming “Oh my gawd!” over and over, or that “Oh no! ♫ oh no!” You lose nothing by watching them muted. For things where dialog is important, like bad jokes, it’s captioned.
TIL (well, recently) about the YouTube shorts to normal Video extension.
Install it in your browser, then if you play a short, it converts to normal mode with
playback controls etc.
You’re welcome.