Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled • Hacker News Board

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by e40 » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:13 AM UTC

Y-bar wrote: post #367

atombender wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The YouTube app is easily the worst app on Apple TV. For example, if you pause the video by clicking the main action button brings up an overlay that takes up almost the whole screen, so you can no longer see the content in case you paused to freeze the frame. How do you start it again? By clicking the same button, right? No! By clicking up. For some reason up means back and down means to open some additional UI with…

It’s so bad. Last time I tried to use it I was unable to fill in my password for my account because Google had implement some custom input element and custom keyboard which did not contain some of the characters I have in my password. And of course there was no possibility to paste or use keychain.

If you have an iPhone you can input with that, including paste.

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by k4rli » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:14 AM UTC

com2kid wrote: post #112

dav43 wrote: post #89

It’s crazy you can pay for premium, which is not cheap, and you can’t disable shorts. The number of times I clicked “show less” and it has zero effect on the number of shorts.

Shorts are up to 3 minutes long now. At this point they are just vertical videos. I fully expect the supported length to keep increasing!

All vertical videos I've uploaded have automatically turned into shorts and there doesn't seem to be a way to toggle this.

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by rcarmo » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:15 AM UTC

Ironically, most people I know are now using alternative YouTube front-ends not for the ad blocking, but just for tracking their subscriptions in a proper list and skipping the junk in the home page.

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by guillevg » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:19 AM UTC

Yes, YT UX is awful, specially on TV. I found about SmartTube and it is great, I recommend it. You can choose the grid size, among many other things (most importantly, no ads!).

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by tonyhart7 » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:21 AM UTC

karhuton wrote: post #321

tonyhart7 wrote: post #69

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"Whoever made automatic AI dubs a default" well thats the thing, people is so lazy and dumb that whetever new feature is available, they didnt bother to find or turn on that shit this is the power of "default", you cant test something is working on hyperscale if you didnt make it default like youtube does

Finnish to the rescue: Change your Youtube language to Finnish, which isn’t supported by auto-dubbing (and probably never will), and all audio will be in original language.

not yet

in this age where google has monopoly for content created on the whole world, its just matter of time until they available

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by hhh » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:22 AM UTC

atombender wrote: post #131

MBCook wrote: post #19

I noticed this morning there was a new version of the YouTube app on my Apple TV. I can’t wait to find out how they screwed this one up. My personal long-term complaint is the length of video titles. Lots of people like to make really long video titles. So right now there is one on my screen titled “The Best Decisions Every Video Game Console Developer Made”. Now if you didn’t know, that is not the whole title. But t…

The YouTube app is easily the worst app on Apple TV. For example, if you pause the video by clicking the main action button brings up an overlay that takes up almost the whole screen, so you can no longer see the content in case you paused to freeze the frame. How do you start it again? By clicking the same button, right? No! By clicking up. For some reason up means back and down means to open some additional UI with…

You’re meant to use the dedicated pause button on the apple tv remote to pause without any overlay. Anything that uses the apple built in player has ui appear when you hit the center button. Same for Netflix.

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by nedt » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:23 AM UTC

atombender wrote: post #131

MBCook wrote: post #19

I noticed this morning there was a new version of the YouTube app on my Apple TV. I can’t wait to find out how they screwed this one up. My personal long-term complaint is the length of video titles. Lots of people like to make really long video titles. So right now there is one on my screen titled “The Best Decisions Every Video Game Console Developer Made”. Now if you didn’t know, that is not the whole title. But t…

The YouTube app is easily the worst app on Apple TV. For example, if you pause the video by clicking the main action button brings up an overlay that takes up almost the whole screen, so you can no longer see the content in case you paused to freeze the frame. How do you start it again? By clicking the same button, right? No! By clicking up. For some reason up means back and down means to open some additional UI with…

You'd think they've done it on purpose so you don't watch Youtube on TV. I tried but it's so bad you'd never open it a second time. And that's the platform where there are no ad blockers, so it must be good for them ...

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by blurr123 » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:23 AM UTC

that "i skied down mount everest" promotion by redbull is out of control. its the epitome of 'look at me' syndrome

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by kryptiskt » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:25 AM UTC

foobarian wrote: post #244

Lerc wrote: post #150

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I don't think it is piracy. Most advertising supported content is made freely available to you with the expectation that you will view the advertising. That expectation is not a contract and was a decision made without your involvement. You have no obligation to perform to someone else's expectations. If the content is made freely available you are free to watch it whichever way you choose. Choosing not to view the a…

Morally, it is piracy IMO. If you applied the rule universally, the site would go out of business and then there would be no video to see.

Google doesn't care about right and wrong, only what they can get away with. They don't deserve to be treated as a moral subject by you, because they will not reciprocate. You're free to be as shameless as they are in your interactions with them if you can get away with it, you're just playing the game at the same level as they are.

I'm paying for Youtube Premium, but its a plain utilitarian decision after they started hassling me with captchas and intimidations that someone at my IP address was using an ad blocker. So yeah, I'm paying protection money. But I don't feel in the least good about it.

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by alex1138 » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 8:25 AM UTC

phendrenad2 wrote: post #195

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12

I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use it through the browser with adblockers. (Yes, on my phone and iPad.) It works so well I’ve gotten at least half a dozen neighbours to do the same. If you haven’t tried it, it’s a definitive step up in UX.

I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use... rumble and tiktok.

Youtube's censorship is one reason I won't pay for it. Rumble is a legitimate site even as people decry its existence (it would be less necessary if Youtube didn't decide on being the world's opinion police)