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The sheer number of videos taken "the wrong way round" (for my computer's monitor) is mind-boggling. I get that some people watch videos on their phones, but is it really that many?

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[-] snerk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The overwhelming majority of internet users do so on mobile devices (92%+) and the majority of internet traffic is to mobile devices (55-60% depending on who you ask).

It's also to the point where it's not uncommon for people to not even own a desktop or laptop anymore unless they have a specific need for it. Instead phones and tablets are much more common among people who only ever used computers for casual internet browsing.

[-] andyMFK@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Today's younger generation mostly watch content on their phones, Instagram, tik tok, YouTube etc. They're holding their phone portrait to view this content so that's how they produce content. And that's a popular demographic to target so yeah, it's catching on for better or worse

[-] Hedup@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to block all shorts in my youtube feed?

[-] Ronno@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I hope AI can soon fix this, that we can record everything in wide format, and that AI cuts it down to various screen sizes. I dislike VVS, but I can also imagine watching landscape content in portrait is also annoying.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yes mobile devices have far surpassed desktop / laptop computers in usage numbers as of years ago. Landscape was probably the preferred video format for a long time because it works for both mobile and desktop but the mobile dominance is so high at this point in life that I’ll bet no one cares.

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

On my phone I prefer landscape though. I don't watch any videos in portrait so I skip them. It's no effort to flip the phone sideways lol...

[-] Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

YouTube started monetizing Shorts and reduced the payouts to regular long form YouTube videos which is anything wide screen and over 60 seconds. It's pretty much forcing content creators to start doing Shorts if they want to try and not lose as much revenue

[-] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

TIL, that's just screwed. Sometimes short form content can be interesting, but 99% of the time I want a video I can watch along to. It's terrible and I don't understand the intense appeal these have. Didn't Vine start it all?

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't even mind vertical videos that much, but the real fucking cancer are vertical videos with baked-in black borders for 16:9 ratio, so you can't view them comfortably on anything and the resolution is like 1/4 of the original.

Bonus if those borders are also filled with ads or other annoying bullshit.

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know why creators even do that with the black borders... you can't even watch those on a phone. Annoys the crap out of me.

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I wish I could at least block Shorts.

[-] Negative_Pair_5694@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For uBlock:

! YT Homepage - Hide the Shorts section
youtube.com##[is-shorts]
! YT Menu - Hide the Shorts button
www.youtube.com###guide [title="Shorts"], .ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer[title="Shorts"]
! YT Search - Hide Shorts
www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-video-renderer)
! YT Search and Channels - Hide the Shorts sections
www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer
! YT Channels - Hide the Shorts tab
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="channels"] [role="tab"]:nth-of-type(3):has-text(Shorts)
! YT Subscriptions - Hide Shorts - Grid View
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-grid-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-grid-video-renderer)
! YT Subscriptions - Hide Shorts - List View
www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer)
! YT Sidebar - Hide Shorts
www.youtube.com###related ytd-compact-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-compact-video-renderer)

[-] theJWPHTER88@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Seems quite extensive, but... do I place some and/or all of it on the "My rules" or "My filters" tab on uBlock?

[-] McBinary@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I would assume because most videos are taken from mobile now. Camera quality in phones is crazy good now.

[-] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, like I suspect for most people, my phone is my camera too, but it's perfectly capable of taking landscape videos.

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Right. I only take vertical if I'm showing a tree or a plant but for a scene or most other pics it's horizontal.

[-] z3n0x@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Because corporate enshittification aka "mobile first", "stories" etc.

[-] hydra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mobile first is a good, valid approach for responsive UI. But these amateur webdevs do mobile ONLY neglecting other UI densities and form factors so all corporate websites look like half-assed phone apps. Not to mention the usage of bloated frameworks to save time.

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