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Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by Suppafly »

twisteriffic wrote: post #129
eimrine wrote: post #127

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> I'd really like to read their writeup where they unironically exalt its virtues Increased engagement by putting content after search box. Reduced search box to such the number that 99.7% searches still can accomplish successfully. Significantly reduced DB load. New incentive for the AI team to keep pacing its algo towards AI-only search.

> New incentive for the AI team to keep pacing its algo towards AI-only search Please no... Facebook is already doing this in marketplace and it's beyond awful. Like "search for an oscilloscope and get a vibrator" level of awful.

Considering how popular marketplace is, fb seems to be doing everything possible to reduce the utility of it.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by Suppafly »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #38
johnnymorgan wrote: post #29

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Do you never see content that has no connection to your viewing habits? It happens all the time and I got hit with the warts and pimples a few months back, just a counter point, I watch YT daily. It's mostly shorts where you will see it

I mostly see content that similar to the things I watch(lot of sci-com, some gaming stuff, some sports stuff, a fair share of chess content) The only offputting stuff I get recommended is these AI generated video essays with nonsense claims masquerading as scicom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-pztYXH8k Depresses me that this channel has over 100k subscribers... But I've never been recommended gross-out stuff. I…

Turn off downloading too. Every time I get a new phone, the youtube setting to downvote videos that I might be interested in somehow gets re-enabled. Caught it trying to download like a gig of random things just in case I wanted to watch them on my phone later.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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rezonant wrote: post #90
Fr0styMatt88 wrote: post #2

Okay just in case someone who knows reads this. Why doesn’t Youtube Premium background play work with members-only videos? Became a member of a channel with spoken content and can’t even lock my phone when playing a member’s only video. Posts and complaints on this go back years, with zero explanation from Youtube as to why this is, if it’s intentional or a bug, etc.

Yes this is perplexing. I have asked YouTube reps point blank about this but have never received any useful answer. As far as I can tell, it seems to be because the members only stuff uses the same system as YouTube's paid video rentals/purchasing system. If you rent a video on YouTube (or if you own one) you'll note that the behavior is the exact same: it acts as if you don't pay for YouTube Premium. My guess is tha…

Man I don't do rentals but I'd be pissed if I did and background play didn't work considering how much I've paid for premium over the years.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by Suppafly »

tech234a wrote: post #52

> "Interacting with any video from the old channel in the YouTube interface will redirect you back to the new one. The old channel name and reference will never display except in the API." On Windows, if you use your the volume keys or the play/pause button on your keyboard during one of these videos, you will receive a media status pop-up in the corner of your screen containing the old channel name along with the vi…

>On Windows, if you use your the volume keys or the play/pause button on your keyboard during one of these videos, you will receive a media status pop-up in the corner of your screen containing the old channel name along with the video title and thumbnail.

Always wondered why sometimes the pop-up description name was different, didn't think about the channel name having changed.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by xenophonf »

kazinator wrote: post #135
xenophonf wrote: post #130

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That would entail adding a branch instruction and risking a cache miss on every single video playback in order to save a couple hundred bytes in a data stream at least four orders of magnitude larger.

Why not also show the same video title, thumbnail, content, comments and side bar regardless of the video URL?

I mean, it's an Easter egg. These things aren't known for their practicability. If one were to object to this, it's because it pushes unnecessary computational costs on every single end-user device that has to render that CSS since the comparison and branch now happens client-side at page styling time. I wonder how many billions of CPU cycles that's wasted.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by pests »

cedilla wrote: post #117
pests wrote: post #108

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There is another video, that I can't find right now, where YouTube has paused the views in the <100s. It's part of the joke or title but I always thought that was neat too. Not sure if it was just cosmetic or they did something in the backend.

You probably think of Numberphile explanation of why YouTube videos (used to) stay at 301 views for a while - leading to lots of confusion when the site showed 301 views with 5728 comments and 37592 likes. https://youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI

Yes! That's it!

I was a little off on the number but I knew it was along those lines.

Thanks.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by user_7832 »

Suppafly wrote: post #139
user_7832 wrote: post #66

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Would you be okay sharing if he is/was he based in the US? His name seems a bit European/Dutch to me.

>His name seems a bit European/Dutch to me. We allow those sorts of names in the US.

I'm aware, which is why I asked if they knew/could share info/details.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by user_7832 »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #72
user_7832 wrote: post #66

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Would you be okay sharing if he is/was he based in the US? His name seems a bit European/Dutch to me.

Australia it seems: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zCmAXjlJb8g Also he specifically links Au version of Linkedin in his bio.

Thanks!

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by rezonant »

Suppafly wrote: post #143
rezonant wrote: post #90

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Yes this is perplexing. I have asked YouTube reps point blank about this but have never received any useful answer. As far as I can tell, it seems to be because the members only stuff uses the same system as YouTube's paid video rentals/purchasing system. If you rent a video on YouTube (or if you own one) you'll note that the behavior is the exact same: it acts as if you don't pay for YouTube Premium. My guess is tha…

Man I don't do rentals but I'd be pissed if I did and background play didn't work considering how much I've paid for premium over the years.

Agreed, but I imagine this might be a licensing restriction or something.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by dingaling »

password4321 wrote: post #44
sergiotapia wrote: post #8

Youtube Movies is such a wonderful product, it's crazy how I can't pay them $10/month and watch whatever I want in their ubiquitous apps. Even the comments come into play when watching a movie, it's fun to read jokes or some detail I missed. Like look, I can quickly watch The 6th Day a perfect Saturday 10AM movie while the kids are about to wake up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdnX-qQIulw But because of greed all…

The ubiquity of YouTube is why if I'm going to "buy" (license) a movie I do so there whenever possible.

Every single movie on that link for me says "Preview Only" or "Not available". I've never found a movie in YouTube that I could actually watch.
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