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YT's user interface has been user hostile for over a decade. The secret to sanity is to never use YT's interface to consume YT content.
It's insane how one of the biggest sites on the internet gets a redesign every few years that makes no sense
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I hugely disagree on "leave the thing alone." A whole lot of nooks and crannies of the AWS console are missing major convenience UI features, and usually when a console is redesigned it solves some reasonably major pain points.
there's a chasm of difference between fixing something that's broken and redesigning. the vast majority of people will not recognize a slight shift in hue of YT Red or YT Magenta gradient, and of those that do most won't care or have their lives made better or have an improved world from it. After reading this, I feel like Arthur Dent having an unshakable sense of the color magenta level of snark.
The console is inherently a GUI product. A lot of times what it needs to be “fixed” is for the design to be completely changed.
I, personally, have zero trust in Google. That’s a company that went from “Don’t be evil” to “Be as evil as needed as long as it’s profitable.”
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It's insane how one of the biggest sites on the internet gets a redesign every few years that makes no sense
sorry to contact you this way, but you mentioned frida and android emulator to use gmx freephone some time ago, could provide more details to this. Many thanks.
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Non-sequitur aside, what specifically do you want to post on YouTube that's not allowed? To me it seems like you have to go pretty far off the rails before they'll step in.
Major television news media have been globally banned from YouTube due to war. Free debate on covid-19 and the vaccines were suppressed and banned on YouTube. Maybe still is, I don't follow that. Those are probably the biggest censorship issues with YouTube. And more are probably to come, as the world spins around.
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Major television news media have been globally banned from YouTube due to war. Free debate on covid-19 and the vaccines were suppressed and banned on YouTube. Maybe still is, I don't follow that. Those are probably the biggest censorship issues with YouTube. And more are probably to come, as the world spins around.
Can you give specific links to incidents and reporting on them?
As for Covid videos, it is official YouTube policy: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13813322
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sorry to contact you this way, but you mentioned frida and android emulator to use gmx freephone some time ago, could provide more details to this. Many thanks.
Ok, figured it out chatgpt and your comment was enough
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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.
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Can you give specific links to incidents and reporting on them?
The government-aligned media channel Russia Today is globally banned on YouTube. As for Covid videos, it is official YouTube policy: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13813322
I will agree with you that the ban on RT comes selectively. The cited reason is that RT trivialized the Ukraine invasion, but the same criticism can be levied against the many news outlets that trivialize the Gaza genocide.
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>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…
People can offer, graciously or not, you something for free. They can then change their mind. You are not entitled to it, you never had any “right” to it, and no force real or imagined in the universe will make that so. I believe that payment in “exposure” is exploitative bullshit and many of my favorite video makers rely on revenue from YouTube as a not-insignificant portion of their income, so I pay.