Someone at YouTube needs glasses • Hacker News Board

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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

a123b456c wrote: post #89

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...

Vote with your clicks. Switch to Firefox

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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

jabroni_salad wrote: post #90

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.

Works for the website but not the mobile app (where shorts are pushed even harder).

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by ringeryless » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

almost like they think a desktop monitor is a portrait mode phone screen... it's not like we dont have media query API, google, but hey, it fits with the general dumbing down and phonification of all interfaces that should have stopped by now.

it's not like they don't have 3 layout sizes already enshrined, it's that they are forcing the desktop layout to act like a portrait mode phone screen for no apparent reason other than trying to be on trend with enshittification or somesuch.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

timbit42 wrote: post #63

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.

Have you looked at the "YouTube-shorts block" add-on?

Not the OP, but I have given up on trusting low-audience browser extensions. Too many stories of the author selling out and injecting analytics/malware into the product.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by bryanhogan » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

iMerNibor wrote: post #13

What gets me the thumbnails are now so big, they're blurry since the images need to be stretched to fit now! The preview is 530x300px on a 1920x1080 screen vs the image shown being 336x188px How this passed any sort of QA is beyond me

The perfect oppurtunity for more AI, image upscaling! /s

Or maybe the next step will be automated AI-generated thumbnails based on the video and the user itself, so each user will be grouped into a different category and gets served a different thumbnail accordingly.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by loosescrews » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

A 32” monitor should be 4k. If anyone needs glasses, it might be the author of this blog post as that is the typical market for low pixel density displays.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:15 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…

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Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by SmartestUnknown » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

sailfast wrote: post #35

So who is building their competitor? Any shot in hell at this because of their huge library?

I think it is not just the library but the huge costs associated with storage, encoding and bandwidth. YouTube has innovated significantly to make it as cheap as possible to run such a service and it is likely that it would take an enormous amount of money for any competitor to replicate it.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google but no connection to YouTube)

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by tambourine_man » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:15 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?

If you are not being sarcastic, yes, it happens all the time. Probably to maximize whatever metric they're measuring.

I'm fearing the day they'll just remove that toggle for good.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by subscribed » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:16 PM UTC

codedokode wrote: post #69

zippergz wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this search thing is absolutely infuriating.

They think that people are idiots and unable to deal with more that 3 search results. Or maybe they think their search is so good that the wanted video is always within those 3.

No, they promote algorithmic "results" because they care about money from ads.