Personally, I can’t stand Shorts because they don’t let me scrub through the video. I actively avoid watching them because I feel like I’m being forced to watch the whole thing.
You can redirect to /watch?v=<contentid> and then scrub, which is what I always change the URL to if I need to send a link to someone else, but this is a pain to change manually.
(Auto-Redirect Short To "Normal" Video URL would be a good extension if I knew how to do one or had time to learn.)
It is crazy, even tiktok lets you scrub if it is longer than a really short loop. And youtube so closely copied the UI that they don't let you even adjust the volume of shorts on desktop browsers.
