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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by lan321 »

duxup wrote: post #258

I miss when I could search youtube for "cats" and I'd get just raw cat footage. Now I get cat influencers and influencers selling me on them ... while they tell me how to pick a cat. Maybe I find kinda raw cat footage, with a title that is misleading, annoying music, text bubbles popping all over it :( I just want what I searched for ... youtube doesn't give me that. It's not that unlike when I open the home page, I'…

For me it's 3 videos of what I searched for and then it just goes to my normal recommended. One of the issues I still haven't fixed with an extension so I just search videos via normal web search.

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Post by globular-toast »

ruszki wrote: post #436
ivanjermakov wrote: post #396

On a sidenote, there is surprisingly no universal agreement on a default font size and "scaling" of a website. Common recommendation is font-size: 14px on html element, but I often encounter websites that are way off in scaling.

Isn’t the recommendation to not use px at all? Or just “Pepperidge farm remembers”?

Sigh... You'd think people would know this by now. What does it even mean to be a "web developer" if you don't know the difference between pixels and text size? It seems like such a fundamental thing, like a decorator knowing how to calculate how much paint is needed for a job. But no... now we have web browsers where a pixel isn't even a pixel, it's 4 pixels, on a "HiDPI" display...

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Post by dvh »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #396

On a sidenote, there is surprisingly no universal agreement on a default font size and "scaling" of a website. Common recommendation is font-size: 14px on html element, but I often encounter websites that are way off in scaling.

Sorry pal but font size is not something you decide. Font size is something I decide!

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Post by kuschku »

1over137 wrote: post #179
insin wrote: post #175

Low _usable_ information density is one of the main things I made Control Panel for YouTube [^0] to tackle, especially in Subscriptions. On a 1080p monitor, my unmodified Subscriptions page currently has 6 fully-visible thumbnails, consisting of 3 livestreams from people I only subscribe to for videos, 1 watched video, 1 stream VOD (which I'll never watch), and 1 unwatched video, so that's a score of 1/6. Scroll down…

> On a 1080p monitor… There’s your problem. You have normal hardware. The rich SV folks at google are probably all using 6k monitors. (only half joking)

Even on expensive, high-res screens, the homepage looks like this: https://i.k8r.eu/YOHPqQ.png

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Post by unfitted2545 »

drivers99 wrote: post #169

There are 0 videos on my YouTube homepage, just a screen asking me to turn on history. Just the way I like it. Here’s what I did: Go into the YouTube app, settings, manage all history, under the history tab hit Delete -> delete all time. Then go to controls (still in the manage all history dialog box under settings), under YouTube history hit Turn off. It says “pausing…” Hit Pause, and Got it. It’s been exactly 3 mon…

You can go even further and remove the recommendations panel when you're watching a video using the eye dropper on uBlock Origin, it's so good.

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Post by dv_dt »

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…

Perhaps it's a dark pattern to keep you using the youtube app on your phone and casting it

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Post by podgorniy »

Nextgrid wrote: post #70
notanormalnerd wrote: post #37

You know who has great information density? Pornhub. If you open Pornhub on a 4K screen, you will absolutely see none of the thumbnails. I think YouTube is overdoing it, but it is really a thing of: people are either using really small screens or 1080p. 4K is still not around much.

Because unlike YouTube, porn is an actually competitive industry with plenty of “tube” sites to choose from. So they have to compete on UX.

Aah, the free market quazimonopolies avoid and despise at all costs (usually carried by customers)

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Post by reddalo »

podgorniy wrote: post #457

What could users do with this quazimonopoly? YT PMs can keep being discunnected from user's needs as long and far as their personal worldview limitations allow and bare no consequences.

YouTube is a monopoly, and with huge barriers to entry.

Nobody else has the money, the infrastructure and the content to build a YouTube alternative.

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Post by reddalo »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #33
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.

YouTube hasn't been working for me past two weeks with uBlock Origin. Video doesn't play.

Are you using Firefox? Chrome breaks YouTube if you have an ad-blocker.
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