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Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by shmde »

37 wrote: post #70
shmde wrote: post #68

I have switched to Piped as a frontend alternative to Youtube, and Libreddit for Reddit. I don't understand why are they so adamant on making the UI worse every passing day. I absolutely loathe the reddit redesign.

I use the old.reddit, don't find it terrible, but yes completely agree about the redesign.

old.reddit.com works fine on desktop but displays itself as a desktop site on mobile so becomes difficult to navigate on the tiny screen of my phone.

I tried using i.reddit.com on my phone, but the links constantly redirects itself to the new reddit redesign and prompts me repeatedly to login, does not show me half of the replies and no access to NSFW subs.

At this point I became so frustrated with the site I just stopped using reddit altogether but found out about libreddit and teddit soon after.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by majewsky »

37 wrote: post #69
krono wrote: post #48

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.

Any way to disable if I don't have an account? Asking for a friend

> Asking for a browser with Cookie Autodelete.

FTFY :)

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by hansvm »

It's definitely a bit annoying. I use the "add to queue" button a lot, and now the time between when that button pops up after I hover on a video and when that button disappears as hovering over the video causes it to autoplay is pretty miniscule. It's also a little less pleasant to have to actually be careful about where you leave the mouse pointer as you navigate a search.

There's an option to disable it though, and you can always use something like ublock origin to just kill the offending elements.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by lathiat »

hansvm wrote: post #83

It's definitely a bit annoying. I use the "add to queue" button a lot, and now the time between when that button pops up after I hover on a video and when that button disappears as hovering over the video causes it to autoplay is pretty miniscule. It's also a little less pleasant to have to actually be careful about where you leave the mouse pointer as you navigate a search. There's an option to disable it though, an…

Yes this is my problem too. It breaks my add to watch later workflow.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by [deleted] »

akersten wrote: post #44
cercatrova wrote: post #40

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 :)

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Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by WHA8m »

CSMastermind wrote: post #54
cercatrova wrote: post #40

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.

They're also experimenting with rolling out 'most watched' graphs on the timebar when you're seeking in a video so you can see which parts are the most popular. Personally I'm all for it. It's kind of embarrassing for Youtube to be lacking good usability features that adult entertainment sites have.

Once again, following applies: Criminals and the porn industry are the two common early adopters.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

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Post by [deleted] »

akersten wrote: post #44
cercatrova wrote: post #40

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 :)

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