Doesnt doing this make youtube impressions go up, since they are showing you the video with less immediate competition around it.
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#12This https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtu... and yt-dlp to download things from only subscriptions that interest me (and watch later offline) changed my life.
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#13What 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
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#15This https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtu... and yt-dlp to download things from only subscriptions that interest me (and watch later offline) changed my life.
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#16Their mobile site is also terrible. It's like the designers forgot that people watch videos in landscape mode. For example, comments won't load unless you rotate to portrait mode first. I mean, come on.
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#17My guess would be that this is in support of the preview hover feature. For a while now, you can watch an entire video just by hovering over it, complete with captions, scrubbing and audio. This wouldn't be very useful if the thumbnails were still tiny like in the past. Personally, I like this feature and don't often need to look at tons of thumbnails at once, but to each their own.
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#18FYI: YouTube provides RSS feed for every channel. The URL is as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
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#19I'm not a fan of this trend either. My suspicion is this change is to increase scrolling to pump more ad space; it makes sense from a business standpoint. But this combined with the Algo changes makes it hard to keep coming back looking for new content VS just consuming the people/content I know and enjoy.
Makes sense and yet it doesn't, because the more they degrade my experience, the more I turn away from youtube.
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Look at the screenshots and tell me that's good design.