Someone at YouTube needs glasses • Hacker News Board

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

#91

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

That advanced analytics package for projection gave me a good chuckle

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

#92

Post by kelvinjps10 » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC

Idk but I prefer the modern one as the other one I feel there are too many videos and I'm unable to see them well

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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

jeffbee wrote: post #56

InMice wrote: post #49

Thank you for writing this post! I opened youtube a few days ago to this as well. On a 24" 1440p monitor its ridiculous. It's incomprehensible there's a UI/UX team that gets paid millions of dollars per year and the result is changes like this. Thank you again for writing this post. After searching it seems like they've been "testing" this in segments for a while now. As a result I installed the "Control Panel for Yo…

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I’m going to take up smoking because Philip Morris says I should.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by guywithahat » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

> I miss YouTube before they turned the pain dial all the way towards money.

The worst part is everyone who tries to compete quickly turns the pain dial up to 11 as well. I realize YouTube existed for many years as a Google subsidized product, but Rumble is the best competitor we have and they can get quite annoying as well.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by bunderbunder » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

And on the iOS app, I can now only see 1.5 at a time because the thumbnails are so huge.

Which is somehow still an upgrade over the last version of the UI, where the titles of the videos were getting clipped off after about 16 characters.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by PaulHoule » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

Levitating wrote: post #86

tambourine_man wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

It seems to do that all the time. Try hiding YouTube shorts and they just come back.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by zppln » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:13 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.

So much this. They haven't even paywalled it behind Premium. They know they're dealing crack. Such a disgusting company.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by TiredOfLife » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

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.

uBlock Origin lite is V3. And blocks youtube ads

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by pier25 » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:13 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.

Same.

I HATE youtube shorts. Not their content (I've never watched one) but how they've infected the whole youtube experience.

You search for something and half the results are irrelevant... which includes a ton of shorts.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by swatcoder » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

Starlevel004 wrote: post #40

It used to be 12 videos until about a year ago. If you zoom in and out the thumbnails don't change size! The worst casualty of the current design is the search. You get three videos before it inserts completely irrelevant and unrelated algorithmic recommendations. No? Fuck off? Do what I tell you to do!

> Do what I tell you to do!

Maybe a good opportunity to remember that you watching the videos you want to watch is actually just a workaround Google suffers through in the YouTube product.

They have to do it so that you come to the site, but it costs them money and makes it harder for them to optimize the revenue they get from your eyeballs.

Strycturally, their goal is to push the line as far as they can, and they spend a lot of product design and engineering effort to do so. They're only going to get better at it as time goes by.

And of course this principle doesn't just apply to YouTube, but at pretty much all media sites once they get large enough to pivot from growing their audience to optimizing its profitability.