YouTube's New Hue • Hacker News Board

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by maples37 » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

treyd wrote: post #72

jszymborski wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know I sound silly and dumb for feeling so strongly about something so small, but the gradient really gets on my nerves. It is indeed so subtle as to make it feel like something is wrong with the display, but not subtle enough that I don't notice it _every time_. Similarly, the "glow" they introduced a while back makes it feel like I'm getting the worlds worst backlight bleed. Mercifully I use FreeTube to watch You…

That glow I think you're referring to is "theater mode" and fortunately it can be disabled on the gear menu. It's incredibly distracting, especially in Firefox it can sometimes be laggy.

I think you mean "ambient mode". Theater mode is like the halfway point between normal-size an fullscreen-size.

As an aside, does anyone know of any good YouTube settings extensions? I usually open YouTube in incognito tabs to avoid the personalization "features", but this means none of my preferences around ambient mode and "stable volume" are saved.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by Jyaif » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

omcnoe wrote: post #122

PC GPU architecture has special handling for cursors to ensure there is as little latency as possible. GPU's have a special buffer and position register for the cursor. But for design.google they hijack the cursor rendering and this low latency goes out the window. First it's annoying that my expected cursor is replaced by some weird circle. But then that it's a laggy circle takes the cake. On a design website too. M…

Immediately noticed and was annoyed by the cursor thing. What the hell are they smoking over there?

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by skydhash » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:36 PM UTC

PoignardAzur wrote: post #206

Klaster_1 wrote: post #127

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After reading justifications like that, I find it hard not to feel cynical about people who suggest and promote such changes. Am I missing something important, or is this really just a fig leaf covering busywork, promotions, and internal politics? Every time I’ve had to implement a "fresh redesign" as a developer, it always seemed to be about scratching an itch for a higher-up or a designer.

They mention technical reasons like avoiding screen burn-in.

Isn't that something screensavers was created to solve?

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by quitit » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

CrimsonCape wrote: post #96

An ad interrupted my video today, it was Tom Hanks in a podcast talking about his prostate. The ad was (not so obviously) AI generated; both an AI clone of his voice and an AI-generated face-swap/ lip replacement. This seemed pretty surprising because it was fairly convincing. He looks like he is saying the dialog of the ad. It's surprising because there's no way the creator of the ad got Hanks' approval to use his l…

On Twitter one can see various deepfaked ads of Elon Musk pushing various crypto schemes.

I can't think of any clearer indication that absolutely nothing is being done about these scam ads.

To me it seems like a clear indication that he's lost control of the platform.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by wrfrmers » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:58 PM UTC

snakeyjake wrote: post #239

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?

Yes. We can talk about what kinds of ads are appropriate but the right to use YouTube without paying either in money or time spent watching ads has never, will never, and does not currently exist.

>has never

This is a deeply interesting comment. Obviously, YouTube began and spent several years as an ad-free, subscription-free platform, so to state that no one has ever had the "right" to use YouTube without paying or watching ads is patently false. But why would someone make such statement? Are they too young to remember an ad-free YouTube? Do they have some vested interest in pushing the idea that the YT user experience has never been and never could be more consumer-friendly than it is? Has the state of political rhetoric in 2025 - the age of Applied Big Brother, where simply stating one's preferred history makes it "real" - trickled down to normal discourse?

Who knows? Anyway, I use an adblocker and Grayjay.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by microflash » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:07 PM UTC

exogen wrote: post #10

A comment I made when I started noticing the magenta gradient at the end of the progress bar: it's a bit anxiety-inducing for those who remember needing to degauss their monitors, because it looks almost exactly like when you mess up a CRT with a magnet. (Aside from that: not a fan, it makes the chrome of the video player more distracting.)

For me, that gradient translates to “cheap”, from the gradient back of cheap Android phones and really badly dyed cheap curtains.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by spicybright » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:20 PM UTC

anon7000 wrote: post #129

CrimsonCape wrote: post #96

An ad interrupted my video today, it was Tom Hanks in a podcast talking about his prostate. The ad was (not so obviously) AI generated; both an AI clone of his voice and an AI-generated face-swap/ lip replacement. This seemed pretty surprising because it was fairly convincing. He looks like he is saying the dialog of the ad. It's surprising because there's no way the creator of the ad got Hanks' approval to use his l…

Yep. And somehow, they’ve figured out how to instantly strike your channel if you accidentally use copyrighted material.

Or strike your channel over baseless claims of infringement. I wish it was only if you used copyrighted material.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by dawnerd » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

atonse wrote: post #16

I literally can’t read this blog post because it keeps jumping to the top of the page to play the video again and again. Maybe take 10% of the time you spent dreaming up new colors to just make your blog function like a regular page instead of adding a million weird animations?

It's insane, they didn't even use Youtube for the embed either.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by userbinator » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:59 PM UTC

eigenvalue wrote: post #210

This is a manifestation of Google drowning in excess headcount and unable to innovate because of endless fake make-work nonsense, where a team of highly compensated designers make the site less usable (gradient on the progress bar? Really?) and make changes for the sake of change, just to make it look like they are doing something.

They are really in need of a good DOGE'ing (with the G standing for Google), but unfortunately that's highly unlikely to happen.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by mrguyorama » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 6:08 PM UTC

TheBozzCL wrote: post #248

qingcharles wrote: post #197

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

TBH, right now that just feels like rewarding YouTube’s bad ad behavior. I’d rather just pay the creators via Patreon.

Right, I will reward youtube with my money when youtube creators don't feel like they are being chewed up by a machine for pennies and don't constantly have their businesses threatened from abhorrent things like "Showing footage from historical bad events" and "Saying fuck a few times".

I will pay youtube when they change the algorithm and system to not reward clickbait, not reward god awful thumbnails, not reward literal lies, not penalize a channel for a single poorly performing video, etc.