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Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by silisili »

dylan604 wrote: post #302
silisili wrote: post #256

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Between shorts, search results, the ads, and the content...I treat youtube links like pinterest links these days. Basically, I'll only click it if I think I really, really need to see it. By 'content' I mean the fact that every video has a moron talking for 10 minutes at the beginning. You can search up something as simple as how to tie a shoe, find a promising video with a lot of likes, then click it. Gotta start wi…

> Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't see how anyone can stand it anymore. when you're not an old, and this is all you know, you just accept it without knowing that there was a better world back when the olds were young. not being able to accept this really shows how old man yells get off my lawn you are. YT is not trying to capture you, and probably doesn't care one bit about olds. it's the younger crowds that have b…

That tracks. It feels like as soon as you fall out of that 18-25, or 18-30 demo, the world leaves you behind. Now I understand why we always thought old people were so cranky!

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Post by ibejoeb »

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.

(sorry for the repost but it's long thread)

This filter list is the most up-to-date that I've found to hide shorts with uBlock Origin:

https://github.com/Harren06/ublock-yt-shorts

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Post by krisoft »

jtbayly wrote: post #136
kotaKat wrote: post #52

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THIS. THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. This has been one of the most frustrating things I run into with Youtube scrolling the page. Can’t leave your cursor on the page while scrolling without managing to have the spacing shift the thumbnails just so slightly so that your cursor lands back into a thumbnail for an autoplay to start and add to the metrics.

I can’t think of other examples, but this exact problem is a constant frustration for me on multiple sites. I can’t scroll with my cursor on the page without crap happening that I don’t want to happen. As to the reason, at least with Youtube and Facebook, the answer is obvious: they want to increase their ad revenue by claiming additional “plays” or “interactions” or whatever they want to call it today. I remember re…

> I can’t scroll with my cursor on the page without crap happening that I don’t want to happen.

Same stuff with the mobile youtube app. If you so much as graze the screen anywhere while watching a video the replay speed doubles. This is so sensitive that even a tiny unintentional finger touch, or a water droplet landing on the screen triggers it. Whoever thought that is a good idea as a feature, i can’t comprehend.

Plus they have no data to see how badly their feature annoys me. From a metrics perspective “the user wanted to fast forward for 5s” looks the same as “a careless finger cradling the phone triggered the fast forward and it took the user 5s to realise what is going on and adjust their hold, now they are annoyed at how fragile this app is”. Someone might have even used the statistics of all the inadvertent activations in their promo package to show what a popular feature they made!

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Post by mrandish »

leptons wrote: post #241
jackcooper wrote: post #147

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Summary of the proposed solutions to block YouTube Shorts: -Enhancer for YouTube extension (Firefox) — mopsi -Unhook extension (Chrome/Firefox) — jabroni_salad, kelvinjps10 -YouTube-shorts block add-on — timbit42 -ReVanced for mobile — kelvinjps10 -Shorts filter list in Brave browser (works on mobile) — my personal favorite

None of these workarounds are available on Chromecast, which is where I do almost all of my Youtube watching.

I've been running the SmartTube app on my Chromecast (and on a Fire TV) for over a year and it's fantastic. Of course, you'll need to side load it but once installed it'll update itself directly. There are lots of tutorials online covering how to side load it on various Android-based streaming sticks.

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Post by darepublic »

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...

well if you are still gonna browse on chrome don't settle for the ublock originless experience.

* download a release zip: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/releases (expand Assets). * go to chrome://extensions, toggle developer mode on * click load unpacked and select the file you unzipped the release

then you also have to watch out because chrome will, still time later, disable ublock origin. You have to go to your extensions page and find the option for 'Keep it for now' or something. Then you can continue to browse the internet like a real gee! Thanks ublock origin!

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Post by cucubeleza »

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

they want more money, less videos more ads, probably the UX/UI team was against it but you know how those big techs are

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Post by robertoandred »

wijwp wrote: post #316
mrighele wrote: post #180

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Why do you even need _different teams_ for the homepage ? The home page is made up of: a search bar with some extra buttons that link to different pages, a sidebar with some more buttons and a list of videos. What are the multiple teams for ? And even assuming it is necessary, there is really no single person responsible for the page so that issues like this can be seen and fixed ? And since we are talking about pet…

> and a list of videos Are we just going to gloss over this like the list of videos is random? haha

Generating a list of video IDs is different from rendering them on the page.
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