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YouTube's New Hue

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Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by sublinear »

x187463 wrote: post #219
qingcharles wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or paying for Premium. I do that to make sure the creators get something.

I have had premium on a family plan for almost as long as it has existed. It's great to add family members who use YouTube on their televisions giving them an ad-free experience without the shenanigans of setting up blockers at a network level. I very much don't understand the opposition to paying for some of the services we use every day. I get not wanted to pay 15-20/month for something like Apple or Disney, if you…

I don't even care about any of that. I simply don't want to log into youtube because the recommendations inevitably turn to shit and I don't want to be stuck with them. The only sane way to use youtube is to never log in and nuke the session every week or so.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by lousken »

x187463 wrote: post #219
qingcharles wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or paying for Premium. I do that to make sure the creators get something.

I have had premium on a family plan for almost as long as it has existed. It's great to add family members who use YouTube on their televisions giving them an ad-free experience without the shenanigans of setting up blockers at a network level. I very much don't understand the opposition to paying for some of the services we use every day. I get not wanted to pay 15-20/month for something like Apple or Disney, if you…

But you still do see ads even if you are paying. They are just included in the video by the creator. It's not like youtube activates sponsorblock.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by latexr »

daft_pink wrote: post #143
throwaway314155 wrote: post #87

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Sorry, how exactly is that implying a monopoly? They're talking about the color palette... If anything this just means YouTube is relatively "finished" software. Of course i don't disagree that they are in fact a monopoly. I just don't think this post about colors is somehow a dog whistle for it.

They can afford to allocate resources towards several six figure a year employees working on research showing that one of their top three most outdated elements are the color of their logo and then replacing pure red with some other shade of red.

That still does not imply monopoly, just that they have got more money than sense.

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Post by mopsi »

Aaron2222 wrote: post #194
andersa wrote: post #78

I absolutely hate the gradient on the progress bar. When a video is full screened I'm no longer able to tell at a glance how far along the progress bar is because the gradient and the grey segment for buffering all fades together. This is so simple to not mess up. It worked before. Why did you change it??

I added this to my userstyle CSS for YouTube: /* Remove pink tint from end of progress bar */ .ytp-play-progress.ytp-swatch-background-color, .style-scope.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-resume-playback-renderer, .ytp-scrubber-button.ytp-swatch-background-color { background: var(--yt-spec-static-brand-red) !important; } Only does the video progress bar, but I might extend it to the handful of other things that use the gradient…

Works as a uBlock rule too:

  youtube.com##div.ytp-play-progress{background: #f03 !important;}

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Post by wruza »

eloisius wrote: post #144
rakkhi wrote: post #128

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Is it a reasonable argument to say you can pay $20/month or whatever it is in your country and avoid ad's altogether?

Just wait until they introduce a “brief ad” into paid premium subscriptions too.

Only sensible ads for those not afraid to pay. A completely noble experience compared to that of a scam tier!

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by zo1 »

qingcharles wrote: post #197
DarkCrusader2 wrote: post #145

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At this point, if someone is not using UBlock and Revanced, it is 100% their fault. Megacorps has very clearly told us that they want ever profits even if it destroys lives, our planet and our future.

Or paying for Premium. I do that to make sure the creators get something.

Neither solutions are stopping what is an en-masse creation of fake AI auto-generated content that's impersonating famous celebrities. The example above was ads, but I'm seeing actual youtube videos that clearly mimick the name and likeness of famous people. With barely 2k views, yet they pop up on my feed.

E.g. names like: "Teylor Swift" or "Hilary Clinton". I.e. the difference between the name of the account and an actual real account name is literally 1 letter. You want to tell me that Youtube can auto-detect music playing in videos, and do advanced AI attribution of music to artists, etc... But it can't spawn a manual review process or flag if an account is created with 1 minor letter change?

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by wruza »

Aaron2222 wrote: post #194
andersa wrote: post #78

I absolutely hate the gradient on the progress bar. When a video is full screened I'm no longer able to tell at a glance how far along the progress bar is because the gradient and the grey segment for buffering all fades together. This is so simple to not mess up. It worked before. Why did you change it??

I added this to my userstyle CSS for YouTube: /* Remove pink tint from end of progress bar */ .ytp-play-progress.ytp-swatch-background-color, .style-scope.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-resume-playback-renderer, .ytp-scrubber-button.ytp-swatch-background-color { background: var(--yt-spec-static-brand-red) !important; } Only does the video progress bar, but I might extend it to the handful of other things that use the gradient…

Thanks!

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by benhurmarcel »

ncann wrote: post #17

> Robyn: To give YouTube a sense of motion, we created a dynamic red-to-magenta gradient. For the second color, orange and yellow were strong contenders, but magenta felt like the most natural pairing with our new red. Interestingly, magenta doesn't often appear in the natural world, so it symbolizes the imagination and evolution that YouTube embodies. We also placed the gradient at a 45-degree angle with magenta on…

I'm not sure whether posting that one https://xkcd.com/915/ or this one https://xkcd.com/1095/

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by slazaro »

lucraft wrote: post #212

Am I right that this article nowhere compares against the current red or even has anything with the current red in it, anywhere? Is that a policy choice there? They don't want to.. not be future looking or something? I don't really get why. It made the article frustrating to read

I suspect it's because they don't want you to focus on the past, only the present. Or maybe it's because it would either highlight how irrelevant the change is, or how annoying the new one is.
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