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I don't think you have the option to say "this app needs Read and Change for just this one domain," it's pretty much an all or nothing sort of deal. This one uses it to edit the page on YouTube, so it has to require it for all.
I'm genuinely curious - where did you get this idea from? It's definitely not the case, so I'm wondering how you arrived at it.
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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,…
> 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.
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 sometimes it cuts in the middle of a sentence to show another irrelevant, long, rubbish ad too.
I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).
Do you have any examples or are you just saying that because you hate big companies?
One of the least subjectively dumb decisions that they pushed through, was to change the "+"-operator from making a word obligatory to searching for this word on Google+. This one, I suppose, would go under just straight-up arrogance.
In general, though, I would ascribe it to bigger companies having a higher percentage of graphics designers, as opposed to regular programmers working on the UI. And well, programmers will generally put more options and things into a UI than your average UI person. And if you like options and things, then the UI person's UI is subjectively worse.
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> Why? The ads aren't that bad. Honestly, the ads are easily the worst part of youtube for me. I'm logged into my google account, everywhere, all the time. And yet they still appear to go out of their way to find the least relevant ads they can find. Adsense doesn't seem to suffer the same, so this disconnect has always puzzled me.
I think there's no mystery there. Video ads are fewer and cost more and Google needs to present "impressions" to their customers. So... are you a human? Then this ad might be of interest to you :P
On the subject of YouTube related chrome extensions, I created one called WikiTube a couple of years ago. Its super simple, and just adds relevant YouTube videos to the top of Wikipedia pages. I'm quite happy with it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikitube/aneddidib...
This is awesome. By the way is it open sourced as well? Would love to learn from this.
Great extension! I added it to ProductHunt for you: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/youtube-stay Good luck!
I gave the author additional exposure for his work. I've been on HN for years and this is the first time I've seen something like this.
On the subject of YouTube related chrome extensions, I created one called WikiTube a couple of years ago. Its super simple, and just adds relevant YouTube videos to the top of Wikipedia pages. I'm quite happy with it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikitube/aneddidib...
Source is on github as well: https://github.com/kldavis4/yteditorpro
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I'm genuinely curious - where did you get this idea from? It's definitely not the case, so I'm wondering how you arrived at it.
Moreover why would they have so confidently made a comment full of such misinformation?
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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,…
I'll add: - Keyboard shortcuts to increase/decrease the speed (shortcuts for all controls, really)