How to Make Short Films on YouTube Really Fun to Watch`
YouTube is being absorbed by Shorts, the company’s answer to TikTok and Instagram Reels. YouTube Shorts are vertical, have a different user interface, are harder to embed, and YouTube actively promotes them through user channels. Users have also complained that YouTube automatically converts their short videos to Shorts format, making it harder for people to upload clips and share them with friends.
If you don’t like short YouTube videos, there are several ways to make these videos more interesting to watch. Alternatively, you can get rid of YouTube Shorts entirely by using one of these Chrome extensions .
Use a browser extension
To watch YouTube on your computer, the extension can easily replace any Shorts video with a regular one. I tested YouTube Enhancer , which is available for Firefox, Chrome and any Chromium browsers such as Edge, Vivaldi or Opera. Once the extension is installed, you can click its icon in the toolbar, scroll down to the Appearance section, and select Convert Shorts . When you click on any YouTube Shorts video, it will automatically play in the regular YouTube player.
Change YouTube URL
You can easily change any YouTube Shorts video to regular one by yourself by changing the URL. The YouTube Shorts URL looks like this: youtube.com/shorts/video-id-goes-here . Change shorts to v and YouTube will load them into its regular video player. The modified URL should look like this: youtube.com/v/video-id-goes-here .
Use JavaScript bookmark
This tip comes from tech journalist Jared Newman , who mentions a JavaScript bookmark that gets the job done. You can add the following bookmark to your browser.
Every time you download a Shorts video, you can click on the bookmark to play it in the regular YouTube video player.
For mobile apps, one option to switch to YouTube’s regular video player is to like the Shorts version of the video, which will then appear in your Liked Videos playlist. Loading it from your Liked Videos feed will open the video in the regular YouTube player, which may not work perfectly, but is worth a try.