> This is on a 32” 1440p display
What in the world.
Someone at YouTube needs glasses
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#552One of the 5 videos on his home page is on mine. I always wondered how prevalent that was, because sometimes I get videos recommended from sources with a small number of views and channels with not that many subs.
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#554This is so annoying, plus them injecting shorts basically every other row. Almost like they don't want you wanting something that's not trending.
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#555Earlier quoted context omitted.
Constantly. They also keep resetting the settings to not show shorts or video games in the feed. I suspect that the managers in charge of some of these features are lobbying for it as a way to artificially increase the engagement stats for their features, but spinning it as actually being good UX instead of a user-hostile move because it's important for "discoverability" or something like that.
First it was "hide shorts". Then it was "hide shorts for X days" (I think 30?). Now it is "show fewer shorts".
I resorted to a custom ublock origin rule
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#557Obviously the model at the end of the post is a joke, but it implies that after September 2026 there will be negative videos on the screen. What does it even mean to be a negative video? There will be videos, but mirrored? There will be videos but the colors will be reversed? Will they play backwards? Is a negative video where multiple ads overlap each other?
What makes more sense is that one thumbnail would be so zoomed in that the borders of it are off screen. Less than one full thumbnail.
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#558Earlier quoted context omitted.
> is actually just a workaround Google suffers through in the YouTube product. It used to be a Google mantra that "focus on the user and all else will follow." They are so far beyond that they've wrapped around. They actively hate users now. All Google really cares about is making advertisers happy. Literally nothing else registers as a priority.
If people stop watching, advertisers will not be happy Unfortunately this seems to be what people want. There's plenty of YouTube competitors (Substack, Patreon, Vimeo, Twitch etc.) Unfortunately, they just don't have the traction of YouTube
In the same way that compulsive gamblers "want" to feed their retirement savings into slot machines.
I think it's more fair to say that this is a behavior that is profitable to exploit if you care more about making money than what you do to your customers' or society's wellbeing.
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#559You’d think they’d all be using google glass
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#560Based on the projected rate of change, it sounds like the homepage will, after falling to 0 videos, eventually start removing videos from the site, so I consider it a win. There are only so many reaction channels that should be allowed to exist.