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People do quite a bit of complaining about the YouTube main page but I can honestly say that I have never once intentionally used it. Why would people go there?
"Does anyone else find this annoying as hell?" I find it annoying that an unpleasant user experience is generally viewed solely as a problem of the particular website and not a problem of the software available to access websites. For example, the user cannot simply switch to a browser that only supports a subset of the HTML protocol, e.g., one that does not support autoplay. Instead users must expend energy to try t…
> I do not use a browser to interact with YouTube. … so you use command line?
Alternative to YouTube (same content, better UX/UI/frontend): https://invidious.io/ https://yewtu.be/
Thanks! I appreciate this! Does it use the same recommendation algorithm? I don't have a YouTube account but (sadly) do still watch a lot of the recommended videos
I quite like it, after having seen it in the, ahem, adult spaces . But seriously though, it's a good enough feature for just checking out whether a video is interesting enough to watch or whether the title and thumbnail are just clickbait, which they often are for making the creators money. It saves me a click or new tab which is even more annoying than hovering over a video.
Personally I'm all for it. It's kind of embarrassing for Youtube to be lacking good usability features that adult entertainment sites have.
"Does anyone else find this annoying as hell?" I find it annoying that an unpleasant user experience is generally viewed solely as a problem of the particular website and not a problem of the software available to access websites. For example, the user cannot simply switch to a browser that only supports a subset of the HTML protocol, e.g., one that does not support autoplay. Instead users must expend energy to try t…
> I do not use a browser to interact with YouTube. … so you use command line?
You can disable it with the "inline playback" toggle here: https://www.youtube.com/account_playback If you don't happen to be in some or other test group, that is. No guarantees :) Absolutely maddening that feature.
The biggest problem I have with it, seems to be a bug, middle/command clicking the video, will often(not always) open the video in both a new tab, and the existing tab, when what it should be doing is only opening it in the new tab.
I quite like it, after having seen it in the, ahem, adult spaces . But seriously though, it's a good enough feature for just checking out whether a video is interesting enough to watch or whether the title and thumbnail are just clickbait, which they often are for making the creators money. It saves me a click or new tab which is even more annoying than hovering over a video.
> I quite like it, after having seen it in the, ahem, adult spaces. Those of us old enough to have witnessed the early days of YouTube remember that their previous video-preview-on-hover feature was also lifted directly from those same adult spaces :)
I already have the extension which changed the thumbnail back to a random point in the video
This lets me quickly skip around the middle of a video to see if it's something worthwhile or clickbait