Oh, sweet Celestia does this one piss me off... 

Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Youtube shorts.  If I wanted Tik Tok, then I'd go to f*ckin' Tik Tok.  I go to youtube because I want f*ckin' youtube.

Why are there no Celestia-damned controls?  Why is there no seeker bar?  Why can't I scrub through the video?  Okay, I really want to know just one thing.  Somebody please explain this to me.  Why is there no volume??  I can only mute it.  It's on or off.  Why is there no slider?!  Why can't I turn the volume up and down?!  WHAT F*CKING TREACHERY IS THIS??!!

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WHY IS THERE NO VOLUME SLIDER???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, I found a cool trick to get around this.  In the address bar of a short, replace "short/" with "watch?v=" and it will convert the short back into a normal youtube video.  Voila.  Manually edit a url just to have normal controls.  OMFG.