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YT2009 and WarpStream (Protoweb) prove the old YouTube can still work today. The new one is just a cat and mouse game of diminishing returns.

Now the YouTube layout is bloated and is in diminishing returns for a while. The writing is on the wall. Maybe we need to hire construction teams to break into peoples' houses and …

In all fairness, we use proxies without realizing it.

Speaking of MITM proxy, which one do you use? Currently doing some interesting experiments on a bunch of Legacy Windows VMs. ;-)

This doesn't get talked about enough. Microsoft back then was just a software company, they didn't care about your real life. Unfortunately, companies today are a different story.

> How would it be worse? well Google is constantly moving too fast and they're mainly an internet company, whereas Microsoft was just the software company. derp

userbinator speaking out again, loving your posts on "modern" stuff. Unfortunately, that's how it's like sadly. People just want the "constant CONSTANT CONSTANT UPDATES!!!" without…

> "obsolete" is meaningless. Physical books are obsolete for not changing without your consent every 5 seconds. /s

I've been using YT2009 since the release and I loved it since. More responsive than regular YouTube and IMO the 2009 layout looks better than the "modern" one. The best thing about…

Agreed. Sadly it's due to the constant churn of tech these days. Developers should just take notes from the books on the shelf: don't change without consent unless you explicitly s…

> why should they care about a dead and insecure os. Developing for old technologies in general (especially hardware) can help make your code and project lighter in general. (see: …

"Now"?!?!? It's even more buggy than Windows search.

> We're at the point where mobile has been the dominant computing platform longer than desktop. I do see your point. What I mean is that we have oversized UIs and hamburger menus o…

The internet died when the desktop became an afterthought. :P

Honestly, the search has been broken for a while. Half of the search results aren't even related and another thing I hate is YouTube Shorts. Anyways, for me, I just loathe how the …

> There's some really good stuff on there that I miss Tbh, same. I do miss getting some information about Windows betas pretty much, but other than that, I won't miss Twitter at al…

Ah, can't wait for more login walls, oversized UIs, and more "Please Subscribe" crap. Thanks Twitter.

> I see no hope of fixing human drivers while maybe they can make cars work. Sadly that won't be the case for some time to a while. Most people only care about the moment of the tr…

I hope that more revolts happen. I'm sick of this "trends" BS that Big Tech pushes and makes others follow. Unrelated but IMHO, web bloat will also kill the internet more than IE a…

Not only that, but even older website layouts were more responsive.

> That's an aesthetic judgement. A site doesn't have to "look" fun to be fun. It just has to present the content that the author, or audience, find engaging. This right here. This …

This pretty much, not to mention that some sites break just by disabling JavaScript even though frontends for popular social media sites like Twitter (Nitter) and YouTube (YT2009, …

> But a counter argument is that uBlock origin, Pi-hole, and Reader mode in Firefox go a long way to blocking those things and creating a nice reading experience. Yeah, true. What …