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

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Post by stephengillie »

chapium wrote: post #96
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

I find most adds can be skipped, but if you enable adblock they are unskippable.

With a mix of uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and Ghostery, ads don't even load.

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

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Post by darajava »

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

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

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Post by crisnoble »

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?

This was the feature that kept me coming back to soundcloud initially, it would probably be much more useful on youtube.

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

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Post by Artistry121 »

pjc50 wrote: post #49
virtualized wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

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.

YouTube does too by saying "not interested". I have Red and love YouTube's engine

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

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

chapium wrote: post #96
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

I find most adds can be skipped, but if you enable adblock they are unskippable.

Maybe that's what it was. I usually stick to Safari when I can, and I used uBlock because it doesn't have uBlock origin. That blocked everything except video ads, which if they should have been skippable it could have been making them unskippable. I switched to Wipr that uses the content blocker API and that removes the video ads too.

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

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Post by Mahn »

virtualized wrote: post #41
andy_ppp wrote: post #7

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).

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,…

> The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept.

A lot of people seem to enjoy it though, I don't think you can generalize this. Different features for different types of users.

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