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Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by segphault » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

The quality of the content on YouTube has declined so aggressively that the terrible UX almost doesn’t even matter anymore. They optimize to promote the most cancerous, low-effort, viral clickbait trash and the algorithm makes it incredibly difficult for anything else to survive or be discoverable. The culture of YouTube is absolutely vile.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

#82

Post by jszymborski » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

Another reason to use FreeTube.

https://freetubeapp.io/

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

#83

Post by xnzakg » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

rozab wrote: post #46

For a long time the grid of videos on the homepage has been slightly misaligned. I imagine the different rows belong to different teams. This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over. I find the autoplay so annoying because it hides the thumbnail which was carefully designed to communicate why I should click on the video and replaces…

Hmm, on one hand I agree that autoplaying videos should be illegal but on the other hand the clickbaitiness of YouTube thumbnails has reached a point where it's almost better. (cue deArrow comment)

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by ysavir » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

The games, too. Clicking to hide them hides them for at most 30 days, then you have to tell them once more that it's of no interest.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by bryanhogan » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

I'm happy with the extensions that I've been using, makes using YouTube much better and protects me from the wonderful world of "Shorts".

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by Levitating » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

tambourine_man wrote: post #73

rozab wrote: post #46

For a long time the grid of videos on the homepage has been slightly misaligned. I imagine the different rows belong to different teams. This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over. I find the autoplay so annoying because it hides the thumbnail which was carefully designed to communicate why I should click on the video and replaces…

> This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over You can disable autoplay at https://www.youtube.com/account_playback , then uncheck "Video previews". It resets itself every 15 days or so, but at least one can have some peace in the meantime.

> It resets itself every 15 days or so

Are you saying that YouTube just alters your preferences?

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by kelvinjps10 » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

Use the unhook extension, and on mobile revanced

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by cardanome » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

wsc981 wrote: post #29

puttycat wrote: post #6

The YouTube abominations keep piling up: Vertical videos on a desktop, endless ads (thanks to the Chrome manifest change that disables decent adblockers), useless feed. I highly recommend installing an extension that hides the home feed and sidebar recommendations, which at least makes YT non-distracting again.

I think in (South-East) Asia the people like vertical videos for some reason. Seems how many people record videos on their phones - at least in Thailand.

The most infuriating thing is that there is no technical reason for vertical filming sucking so much.

The phone camera sensors often have a aspect ration of 4:3 but the sides are cropped in software. So the videos just get mutilated because convention.

Though at least 4:3 format is making a come-back because it is the prefect comprise format. Looks great on a tablet, is usable in both landscape and portrait mode. On Desktop it leave space to read comments. Perfect for youtube videos.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by a123b456c » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC

herpdyderp wrote: post #4

You can insert (and tweak) this into uBlock Origin filters: ! YouTube Fix & Customization by Arch v1.8.4 ! (1/11) YouTube 4 Videos Per Row Fix (Home and Channel Pages) / YouTube Fix & Customization youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row, #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;) youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 5 !important;) youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-rende…

Didn't the new Chrome update break uBlock, or is that just for my test cell? I've been in mourning...

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by jabroni_salad » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

The unhook extension can get rid of them.

It also gets rid of that nonsense they did to the search page.