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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by OrangeMusic »

reddalo wrote: post #459
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.

The money or infrastructure: factually false.

The content: well I guess that's the network effect.

To be honest I don't understand content creators who bitch about YouTube constantly (about "the algorithm", demonetization, strikes and more), but DON'T put their content somewhere else at least as an alternative. You don't have to _move_ but at least also publish your videos to a podcast platform or something?

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Post by OrangeMusic »

bambax wrote: post #382
binarymax wrote: post #130

Why. Why are they doing this. It’s the same with Netflix. I don’t understand. What is the metric that goes up when they show a couple giant videos.

Came here to ask the same question. How do they benefit from showing less videos? I don't get it.

I assume people click on the first "video" (not realizing it's an Ad).

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

bildung wrote: post #465
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #461

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple TV apps, in general, are terrible. Every single one [that I routinely use] (including Apple’s apps) regularly crash or lock up, often leaving it to me, to force-quit. Amazon has started getting into a state, lately, where it ignores the remote, unless I go back, then go forward again. This kind of “quality” is considered “acceptable,” in today’s world. AppleTV has a JavaScript-based development system. It also…

I have zero experience with these, but every app crashing could also indicate a hardware issue. Faulty memory perhaps?

I have two sets (one is a 4K, and the other, a regular set). It happens on both. The crashes are different, though, for each app. Usually, it’s the app falling into a fugue state, at some point, as I am channel-surfing (I do that, a lot).

I should also qualify that it’s not really “every single one” (that’s hyperbole). It’s the ones that I routinely use (Apple, Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix).

I’ll probably get another one, sooner or later, but I’ve been waiting for them to release a new version[0],

[0] https://share.google/YL2EBlQfewN9CGDxD

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

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Post by anhner »

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…

This is so awesome! This is why I love the desktop, my machine is still mine.

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Post by kevincox »

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.

This is unfortunately true. It feels like "1rem" should be the ideal body don't size. But on desktop browsers this is often quite small.

Personally I configure my browser's default font size (1rem) to something nice and readable, but I'm sure that the number of people who do this is But either way I would recommend against hardcoding a size in px.

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Post by skydhash »

aidenn0 wrote: post #193
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.

Anyone else notice that most youtube ads are really bad . Seeing a product in a youtube ad now causes me to be more likely to believe it's a ripoff. Things like a cheap $5 fan being sold for $60 as roughly: "Super efficient A/C that will save you $100s on your electricity bill and can cool a room down in just minutes"

The good ads are just normal videos (movies trailer, product announcements, sponsored video)

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Post by EliteGadget »

sreya wrote: post #219
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.

Not being able to play Youtube in the background on your phone is unfortunately one of the main appeals of Premium. There's a lot of good mixes, concerts, etc that I play for the audio while doing something else that I can't do without Premium unless I wanted to leave my phone unlocked (and pray I don't pocket click a link).

I run Brave (Android) on my phone and don't have any ads on Youtube. I think it worked on Brave iOS but I sold my iPhone last year.

I let Brave run in the background and it seems to work fine.

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Post by EliteGadget »

danpalmer wrote: post #59
tcfhgj wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking ads is hardly "pirating" content

To be clear, this is not a value judgement. I pirate content sometimes, and I use adblockers, but ad blocking is definitely piracy – you're circumventing the method of paying for content. I realise that online ads have other implications such as tracking that, say, a blu-ray rip downloaded from a torrent doesn't have, but the reason for piracy doesn't change the fact that it is.

What you are describing is not piracy/Copyright infringement.

You can say that we should not be blocking those ads, that is fine. But blocking ads is not making unauthorised copies of the content.

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Post by orphea »

chrneu wrote: post #211
orphea wrote: post #23

Not really related but... have anyone else noticed that suggestions on the home page became much worse recently? I'm getting a lot of unrelated videos which are often very old, like published up to 18 years ago. OTOH, videos from subscriptions are not getting suggested, I often have to check individual channels to see if they posted anything new. What's happening?

If you pay attention, this happens every few months. This is youtube tweaking the algorithm. Every time they tweak the algorithm, content creators scramble to figure out what changes they made so they can exploit it. That's why every few months all the major channels change their styles to all be the same. Gotta exploit that algo!

  > this happens every few months
Well, maybe, yeah, but I do think it was never this bad.

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Post by fhennig »

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…

I love this, thank you so much for building this!

I didn't know I wanted 6 videos in a row, but now that I have it, it's so much better. Also linking youtube logo to subscriptions is great.

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