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Re: FixYT

#71

Post by OGC »

1qaz2wsx3edc wrote: post #50
zokier wrote: post #21

I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G/YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.

This is unreasonable. YT isn't going to disappear. Did myspace? No. The fact that YT provides an API is plenty to reface it. You should view this website as another from of protest. Which of there have been plenty of protests in recent. It's not wrong, just a different one.

YT could disappear, but you'd have to pour a _lot_ of money into it.

Re: FixYT

#72

Post by ajkjk »

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #70

Thank you whoever you are. May the randomness of the Universe be in your favor. - It's blazing fast, much faster than the original. - Doesn't have that stupid loading bar at the top. - No more glitched video page loads. - Isn't going to be redesigned every 5 months like YT. - The video player is center aligned and not left aligned. - Drops all the unnecessary UI elements and doesn't bother me to start using my real n…

I very much agree. I feel like every Google product is going straight downhill in similar ways.. even the ones unrelated to Google+. There must be some grand design to the whole thing but I don't see how it can all be money.

Re: FixYT

#73

Post by martian »

> "supports privacy and stores no information"

Interesting that there's still a Google Analytics tracking call on the page.

Re: FixYT

#74

Post by nashequilibrium »

zokier wrote: post #21

I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G/YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.

Sign me up, i want youtube to be killed dead!!!! Youtube is cool but google jumps in and just ruins your experience. They asked me 4 time before to adjust my name and i chose my current username....4 times. Now, for the last two weeks i have been getting this pop again but now i must apparently sign up for G+, when i try and comment, guess what that fu popup again, i cannot comment unless i join G+.I have been just closing the window and saying, "O well that saves me some time wasting at least." Google is now as arrogant as Microsoft was and don't care about what the consumer wants but where they want to push you. I will never use G+, Google will save themselves the distraction by shutting down that crap, but they so blinded by facebook that they losing sight of the actual power they have.

They got this idea in their head that they need to create the complete identity for users to target ads better. This idea came about when the press and pundits where saying that facebook was so valuable because of realnames and user identity. The issue is that it's been proven that you can build a profile from a person's search history, even Target can predict if you are pregnant. So why waste time with this shit, anger your users and destroy your brands value?

Re: FixYT

#75

Post by mgkimsal »

martian wrote: post #73

> "supports privacy and stores no information" Interesting that there's still a Google Analytics tracking call on the page.

but hey, fixyt themselves don't store the info, so... i guess it's fine, right?

i'm getting a little tired of the 'privacy backlash' from many quarters, as I don't really get what people are after. piggybacking on youtube, which needs to generate revenue and does so by relevant ads... just strikes me as juvenile.

You want "privacy" but you also want the fruits of non-private endeavors? Too bad. Build an entire video hosting and streaming service, give it away for free, focus on 'privacy', and see how far you get. But leeching off YT feels wrong.

Re: FixYT

#76

Post by rfnslyr »

1qaz2wsx3edc wrote: post #50
zokier wrote: post #21

I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G/YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.

This is unreasonable. YT isn't going to disappear. Did myspace? No. The fact that YT provides an API is plenty to reface it. You should view this website as another from of protest. Which of there have been plenty of protests in recent. It's not wrong, just a different one.

Existing in a vacuum != existence in reality.

Re: FixYT

#77

Post by syllogism »

mgkimsal wrote: post #75
martian wrote: post #73

> "supports privacy and stores no information" Interesting that there's still a Google Analytics tracking call on the page.

but hey, fixyt themselves don't store the info, so... i guess it's fine, right? i'm getting a little tired of the 'privacy backlash' from many quarters, as I don't really get what people are after. piggybacking on youtube, which needs to generate revenue and does so by relevant ads... just strikes me as juvenile. You want "privacy" but you also want the fruits of non-private endeavors? Too bad. Build an entire video…

The big privacy concern with YT is that your viewing history will be displayed to your friends and acquaintances, attached to your real name.

People can say, "Don't be ridiculous! They would never!", but Google is so utterly tone-deaf to user concerns that people, myself included, just can't rule it out. And it makes us angry.

Think back to Buzz: suddenly, you could view all of your contacts' contacts!! That's the level of deafness Google has to how you might want your data displayed to people you know...and that's why this feature is so unacceptable to pretty much everyone.

Re: FixYT

#78

Post by shittyanalogy »

zokier wrote: post #21

I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G/YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.

Yes, creativity and experiments aren't the answer. It's rejection and protest that will solve all our imaginary problems.

Re: FixYT

#79

Post by Semaphor »

geofft wrote: post #55
1qaz2wsx3edc wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is unreasonable. YT isn't going to disappear. Did myspace? No. The fact that YT provides an API is plenty to reface it. You should view this website as another from of protest. Which of there have been plenty of protests in recent. It's not wrong, just a different one.

... wait, MySpace is still around?

Yes. And thanks for that. There are older bands that still have their music on myspace and nowhere else.

Re: FixYT

#80

Post by tzury »

ngoldbaum wrote: post #56

As I'm involved with an open source analysis and visualization tool named yt [1][2], this submission made my heart skip a beat. [1] http://yt-project.org [2] Neal Stephenson reference.

yt-project looks interesting. thanks for sharing.
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