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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by theshrike79 »

EliteGadget wrote: post #447
theshrike79 wrote: post #430

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LTT specifically AB tested the stupid thumbnail vs relevant + titles. The idiotic clickbait images and titles WORK. People don't use them because they want to, they use them because they have to. Thus -> DeArrow. (Or follow the channels via an RSS feed and filter there)

I've heard this argument before as someone with a small number of subscribers, In use relevant titles and thumbnails (I do partially use AI but that is "make me a Tux image with a builders hat on"). When I post a video I get a decent number of viewers for my channel size. So I don't believe someone like LTT needs to resort to clickbait. LTT has 16 millions subscribers and half a million views per video. They make ple…

A single washed up Youtuber getting residual income is very different from someone running a full-ass company with a bit under 100 employees.

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Post by mikkupikku »

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…

Long titles that put the important context beyond the fold are a form of clickbaiting, I just refuse to watch those videos entirely. I'm sure most of the videos are fine but I cannot reward bad behavior, and besides, clicking on clickbait will get you even more clickbait in the suggestions.

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Post by gblargg »

k4rli wrote: post #402
com2kid wrote: post #112

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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.

Add black bars manually or make them longer than 3 minutes.

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Post by mooktakim »

Can someone write about how terrible the YouTube Android app is, so that some PM can actually fix it? Its an app i use constantly and hate using it all the time. I accidently click to another video and lose the position of where i was. It used to confirm the play of another video, but now it doesn't. The offline feature is terrible; you can't play something and make it go offline. It used to cast really well, with a "casting queue". When i disconnect from my TV, its still logged in. Adding/removing/changing the watch queue is so bad that I have to use my laptop to make changes. When browsing, you can't tell whether a video is already on your watch list; it's not always accurate. Sometimes you click add, and it removes it from the watch list because it's also in the list. Many more things.. can't think of them right now.

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Post by crote »

fransje26 wrote: post #466
aidenn0 wrote: post #193

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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"

> Anyone else notice that most youtube ads are really bad. Claiming that (youtube) ads are bad is a tautology at this point. What else can be expected from something competing for what is left of a user's attention at the very lowest end of a market already overflooded with crud? The question should rather be: why would one voluntarily let one's well-being be polluted by such invasive, parasitic crap. There is nothin…

Now we just need someone to build AR glasses with real-world adblocking...

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Post by ivanjermakov »

dvh wrote: post #453
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!

Absolutely. Would be great to have a consistent starting point.

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Post by walt_grata »

bronco21016 wrote: post #278
walt_grata wrote: post #115

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I did the same, but I also added in a tamper monkey script to get rid of the picture in picture thing they force on you as part of their "core experience". I wish their ux designers and PMs were less arrogant and realized their preferences are just preferences and gave us back the ability to disable stuff like this in the app.

Are they the PMs' preferences? Or are they A/B tested "optimizations" to hit their KPIs?

I honestly don't care. I've taken the stance of just looking for alternatives. Chrome on Android forced grid for tabs, boom changes to Firefox everywhere. YouTube doesn't allow me to disable picture in picture, canceled my paid account and mostly stopped using it, etc...

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Post by nubinetwork »

k4rli wrote: post #399
atombender wrote: post #131

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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…

Is it a real app anyway on that platform? I doubt it. Last time I checked, the LG webOS app was just running tv.youtube.com which only expects a TV-specific user agent.

I've been using YouTube.com/tv with a Samsung agent for years. Although I did have to recently switch from abp to ubo because abp stopped playing videos for me.

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Post by haspok »

OrangeMusic wrote: post #471
reddalo wrote: post #459

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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?

Ever heard of Nebula?
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