Feature: Force Shorts to load in standard player. about youtube HOT 2 CLOSED

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One can also replace the links before clicking them

#1701

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#1701 (One can also replace the links before clicking them)

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I appreciate your time. I've seen #1701 and I disagree with link modification.

My first argument against using solely document parsing link modification is that this does not fix the behavior from externally shared links. How many other features of this plugin only work if you open a link from within a sire where this plugin has access to modify contents within Firefox? How will this fix the problem if I open, say, a link from a messenger app?

It also has a performance implications, when processing/rendering the page during updates and loading. Benchmarks such as https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0/ would definitely reveal impacts caused by such. If we're only modifying on load that's one thing, but Youtube has a tendency to do dynamic reloads on pages such as the Subscription page if you leave it idle, so you'd have to catch that every time.

I disagree that link modification is even a good solution, and request this be considered as an alternative means of "protection."

• This method has no lingering impact after a page has loaded, unlike processing live page updates required for link modification
• The processing isn't a global, recursive regex on the entire contents of every document
• Thus, this has no requirement of permission to modify site contents on Youtube or globally
• As a urther result, this has a smaller processing and memory footprint by A LOT
• The sole side-effect is a mandatory, momentary delay of a page starting to load before being redirected, which is not uncommon on the modern internet in the first place, nor is it a noteworthy impact to user experience

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