Comment by JofArnold

Some really weird product decisions this year. E.g. they are also hellbent on showing me "shorts" in my search results. I can't think of a single occasion lately when I didn't want to see the full description and comments and they make it hard to get directly to the video. Worse still they are applying this "shorts" concept retrospectively to any video that happens to be short in length, meaning I get videos that were never intended for that format by the creator.

Fortunately this bookmarklet (which i've named "eat my shorts" in my bookmarks) does the job:

  javascript:(function()%7Bwindow.location.href %3D window.location.href.replace(%2Fshorts%5C%2F(.*)%2F%2C "watch%3Fv%3D%241")%7D)()

raw:

  window.location.href = window.location.href.replace(/shorts\/(.*)/, "watch?v=$1")