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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

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…

This was one of the most relaxing things I’ve done. Recommendations are so bad so useless, despite paying for premium for peace, it’s just hassle to interact with the platform.

And shorts, just let us turn them off in the subscription page exactly like the posts.

It’s utterly baffling that a multi-billion dollar video empire doesn’t provide much of an option to their users in terms of settings.

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Post by ksec »

FridgeSeal wrote: post #509
ksec wrote: post #450

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>I used to pay for YouTube premium It would have been amazing value had Youtube Music, which came with YouTube Premium were half decent. But it is not. We got Spotify which isn't perfect, and then Apple Music, which for years didn't know what they were doing, and then Youtube Music, which is basically a company doesn't give a damn about Music. We now have three Giant companies over the history of the past 30 - 40 yea…

> Apple Music, which for years didn't know what they were doing You pay them money, they let you stream music and otherwise stay out of your way. I don’t know about you, but that’s pretty much ideal as far as I’m concerned.

I still remember Apple Music App was all about the magical "Next Song" and they went their way to hide Repeat One button because they want you to do "Discovery".

It wasn't until about 2020 before they relented. But that ideal is still true with Apple Music today.

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Post by codedokode »

isolatedsystem wrote: post #481
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)

There are children and there are adults. Children have more free time. Children watch more YouTube than adults. So LTT's audience is probably more children too. Children are attracted to soy-boy suprised pikachu face on clickbait thumbnails. CHLIDREN are ATTRACTED to EVERY second WORD being IN all CAPS!!! They like the three exclamation marks. They like flashy text on MrWhoseTheBoss videos which repeat the same thing…

> repeat the same thing the fucking guy is talking but just with flashy text on screen

This have been a thing on Japanese TV since long ago, doubling down on the punchlines with subtitles or adding a comment or comeback (conveniently, Japanese text takes less space that Western text, so the characters can be relatively large). So I think they just copied it.

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Post by dathinab »

chrneu wrote: post #209
FridayoLeary wrote: post #134

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I used to think they were a foundation dedicated to funding extreme sports who also happened to sell an energy drink as well. Their business is basically selling poison but creating such absurd quantities of great free entertainment that everyone forgives them.

I mean, in terms of getting your caffeine, Redbull is basically the least poison in the game. It's not even a lot of caffeine and doesn't contain a lot of the other shit that stuff like Monsters contain. Like really, checkout the redbull ingredient list sometime. There's not much to it. Not saying it's healthy at all. Nobody should really be drinking energy drinks, but Redbull is probably the least awful of the bunch…

I wouldn't say "least".

technical there are many "non energy drinks" which have no less caffeine or other wake-up effects as energy drinks.

But funnily one of the ways Red Bull works is by giving you Vitamin B12 and Magnesium,

which are commonly on a slight deficit in, case where people take energy drinks. They can lead to a noticeable feeling of boosted energy in a similar time as caffeine takes effect (ironically Caffeine takes 15-30min to take effect, anything before is either something else or a placebo effect...). In general if you have problems with low energy in the morning taking B12+Magnesium alongside the breakfast is a things worth trying out (just maybe not by drinking a Red Bull :=) ).

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Post by Thorrez »

codedokode wrote: post #536
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…

> so you can no longer see the content in case you paused to freeze the frame. It's similar on desktop, if you pause the video, an overlay with recommendations appears, and it prevents you from reading the subtitles, for example.

I've only experienced that on embedded videos, not on youtube.com . Are you experiencing it on youtube.com ? I tried it just now, and was able to view a video on youtube.com , pause it, and keep reading the subtitles with no recommendations popping up.

Disclosure: I work at Google but not YouTube.

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Post by bentt »

I really don't understand why there are not sites that curate Youtube videos? Like, present basically the same recommendation UI, but just hand pick cool videos around different topics? Hell, it could even be like Reddit with voting... but the algorithmic recommendation engine that Youtube uses is NOT aligned with my interests. It's aligned ONLY with my behavior. I want to learn! I want to explore! I do NOT want to get corralled into the same videos as everyone else just because they are engaging.

I'll give you an example. I'm super into game development. I also love the NBA. NBA videos are posted nearly every day and I click on them. Gamedev videos, not so often. So what do I get? Tons of NBA content because that's what I click on in my recommended. What I want, though, is for the recommendations to think about what I would _like_ to watch and not just what I _do_ watch. I think a curation site would help alleviate this problem, especially if I could steer it more than Youtube's.

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Post by throwaway290 »

kryptiskt wrote: post #409
foobarian wrote: post #244

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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 start…

what do you think of people making videos, they deserve to be paid right?

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Post by codedokode »

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"

Yes, I saw a promoted video with cryptocurrency scam ("earn lot of money trading crypto with ChatGPT") for many months on European Youtube. As I remember, to become rich you just need to put your private keys into their script and run it.

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Post by jbaiter »

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.

It really is. I've been using Revanced to patch out the Shorts feature on my phone, works decently well, but I'm technically violating the ToS with that, despite shelling out 15€/month for it. Obnoxious.

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Post by jimangel2001 »

pzmarzly wrote: post #489
chrneu wrote: post #201

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"Enhancer For Youtube" is a firefox extension that disables much of the nonsense in Youtube's UI. I can't use youtube without it anymore. There might be a chrome version? Idk, using chrome with youtube is dumb af tho so probably don't do that.

Using Chromium-based browsers is the only way to play HDR videos, since Mozilla is dragging their feet for years with implementing support for that. I use Firefox for everything except for YouTube because of that. But if you're in the same boat, at least use something that has an adblocker, like Brave, Vivaldi or Opera.

Just out of curiosity, what channels on YT do you follow that upload HDR content regularly?
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