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Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by witty_username »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #72
witty_username wrote: post #45

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> I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works. Why? The ads aren't that bad. > There are wrong defaults like showing annotations or autoplay. From a business perspective, autoplay is good as it leads to more videos being watched.

> Why? The ads aren't that bad. They really are. On desktop they're unskippable (unless you reload - often 10+ times to get something short enough or no ad), they're never relevant or interesting, they're ridiculously long (often over a minute, I've seen them significantly longer than the video). They're noise, and the signal/noise ratio is worse than I've ever seen on TV. If a video's longer than about 10 minutes so…

The unskippable ads are only 30 seconds, and they only show up sometimes (for me, about 1/3 to 1/2 the time an ad shows up, and like 2/3 the time the ad is a 5 second skipable ad.).

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by ycosynot »

personjerry wrote: post #140
ycosynot wrote: post #138

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This is why I had foolishly started my own browser. It is scary to think that the computing experience is limited and defined by one company and its practical monopoly. There should be something which is like Chromium, but more Chromium than Chromium, and enforced by law, and which other browsers plug into, or derive from, so they can't force the world into one standard experience, if it makes sense. (and same thing…

Are you saying that web standards should go further and there should actually be a open-source web standards library?

Yes, open-source by law, but only the very basics. It'd seem fine to me if they implemented it closed-source on top, as long as it has the expected functionality.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by Artistry121 »

andy_ppp wrote: post #117
Artistry121 wrote: post #113

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Ok. Here goes: 1. The interface is complex and defined because of the sheer amount of features present. 2. Recommendations work really well after for me after I started using the "not interested" feature and curating channels. 3. You can add playlist and get notified when new videos are added easily - thus eliminating the need to subscribe to whole channels if you don't like all their content. (I know there are a few…

1. Complex can be good, that's not the point, it's a disorganised UI 2. I think the "you need special knowledge" to use an interface rather proves the point right? 3. Again seems like bad UI if that grand parent found this very difficult. 4-7. Sure, you have come up with YouTube workarounds. 8. YouTube ads are a necessary evil I guess. 9. Sure. The man in the arena is about a couple of guys in their basement daring g…

The man in the arena is about doing something with your life rather than critiquing others non constructively.

Build a better YouTube. I'd love to see how someone else caters to the millions of daily users and dozens of use cases

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by foobarbecue »

darajava wrote: post #102
foobarbecue wrote: post #99

I've been wanting to make one that displays times mentioned in comments on the time bar. Ideally the interface could be expanded to add annotations to videos and even graph funniness over time. Has anyone seen something like this out there yet?

Cool idea! I will steal it if you don't do it! :D

Hey, wanna team up and do it together!? I got started here: https://github.com/foobarbecue/ytime

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by virtualized »

delecti wrote: post #63
pjc50 wrote: post #49

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Recommendations are mostly awful Yup, it's amazingly bad. 'Related' videos are mostly OK, but reccomendations seem to be just a 'related' video based on something you watched ages ago. I guess most youtube viewers are browsing omnivores and don't really care how bad the stuff is as long as it makes the time pass. At least Amazon let you fix their reccomendations.

> At least Amazon let you fix their reccomendations You can on youtube as well. From the homepage, mouse over a recommended video and the three vertical dots appear. From there you can say "Not interested" and provide a reason.

I have never noticed this button before. Bad discoverability could be another point in my list.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by virtualized »

Artistry121 wrote: post #144
andy_ppp wrote: post #117

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1. Complex can be good, that's not the point, it's a disorganised UI 2. I think the "you need special knowledge" to use an interface rather proves the point right? 3. Again seems like bad UI if that grand parent found this very difficult. 4-7. Sure, you have come up with YouTube workarounds. 8. YouTube ads are a necessary evil I guess. 9. Sure. The man in the arena is about a couple of guys in their basement daring g…

The man in the arena is about doing something with your life rather than critiquing others non constructively. Build a better YouTube. I'd love to see how someone else caters to the millions of daily users and dozens of use cases

I don't get this reasoning at all: "products for millions of users have to be worse than necessary"

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by virtualized »

Artistry121 wrote: post #113
virtualized wrote: post #41

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This is my personal experience as a YouTube user: - There are these weirdly looking fixed (Googleish) bars for no other reason than to steal my screen space. - Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched. - The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept. I usually care only about specific series of videos, not the whole channel. Example: New movie reviews,…

Ok. Here goes: 1. The interface is complex and defined because of the sheer amount of features present. 2. Recommendations work really well after for me after I started using the "not interested" feature and curating channels. 3. You can add playlist and get notified when new videos are added easily - thus eliminating the need to subscribe to whole channels if you don't like all their content. (I know there are a few…

8. I don't see how paying YouTube would help solve the other problems. Google already has too much money and can't build good products with it.

I have never heard about YouTube Red and it is not "available in my country" whatever that means in 2016.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by slmkbh »

n4r9 wrote: post #56
slmkbh wrote: post #50

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Well, there always is (slightly nsfwish url) http://twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/

Haha. It looks like a lot of fun, but does it allow for making playlists, collaboratively or otherwise?

As far as I know, no.

It pretty much does what it says in the URL :)

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