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Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by stephen_g »

chanux wrote: post #577
lukaslalinsky wrote: post #36

The nastiest trick for me is that no matter how times I tell YouTube not to show me shorts on the home page, they always sneak back in.

The top tier engineers were struggling to make it so that auto-play would stay off. This is no surprise.

It turns itself back on for me so frequently that I'm sure they must be intentionally having the site reset that preference... I hate it with a passion.

Now when I go on mobile Safari and want to switch off 'video previews' (for the thousandth time), and I tap the switch, it stays switched on but the 'Settings saved' thing comes up on the bottom. You have to tap it again to actually switch it off. I wonder if that's a bug or intentional too now...

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by dzhiurgis »

homefree wrote: post #220
dcchambers wrote: post #58

I am BEGGING someone, anyone at Google/YouTube to let me permanently disable YouTube Shorts. I HATE Short form video content and no matter how many times I select "show me less of this" I still get them front and center when I open the app or website.

The annoying bit is similar to reels, shorts are good for engagement. It’s similar to why I don’t buy Oreos. I like Oreos, everyone likes Oreos - they’re engineered to be liked, but they’re bad for you. The best way to not eat them is to not have them in the house. Short form videos are the heroin of media consumption - meta having to pivot instagram to it is because they’re facing competitive pressure. Same with You…

IDK a lot of how-to and the like videos I watch can probably be distilled into 30seconds or less.

Long form content (i.e. Veritasium) are nice for sure, but some of it suffers from fluff too.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by dzhiurgis »

ars wrote: post #588
pier25 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. I HATE youtube shorts. Not their content (I've never watched one) but how they've infected the whole youtube experience. You search for something and half the results are irrelevant... which includes a ton of shorts.

>I HATE youtube shorts. This guys posts only shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@hydronyc and he's got the best/funniest plumbing video you YouTube. The bad shorts are when you scroll to the next short after watching one - never do that, only watch shorts from subscriptions.

Did I really just see him charge someone $1800 for shower mixer install?

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by curtis3389 »

temac wrote: post #553
curtis3389 wrote: post #544

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! Don't blame us programmers for new features! We don't usually write the user stories!

Is this an admission that you accept to implement complete garbage?

Oh dear God in heaven and Ada Lovelace forgive me for the horrors I have wrought.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by dredmorbius »

Razengan wrote: post #420

Someone at HN needs glasses too, until then we're stuck with this borderline hostile text/UI size and colors trying to be as unreadable as possible.

For your (and any other readers') benefit:

Dred's HN CSS Madhackery: https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd

Dred's HN CSS Madhackery -- Dark Mode: https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH

(Both in my HN profile page.)

I'm reading via the first now.

I've recently re-skinned Algolia's search to match this. What the heck, posted:

https://pastebin.com/HMp8Er30>

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by dredmorbius »

anigbrowl wrote: post #371

It's the same with Google news on Mobile. I found an old Nexus one in a drawer the other day and tried charging it up, it still worked fine. When I opened Google News (from~12 years ago!) it was just a list of categories and 8-10 headlines within each category, a small picture for the top story in each category. On my modern phone it's all pictures and you can see at most 2 headlines at once. It takes a bunch of scro…

What I'm using currently for news: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/114356066459105122>

(Own tool, local-only, inquire if you're interested, email in profile.)

Source currently is CNN, which really isn't a particularly good news source or article selection. I'm working on a version based on The Guardian's RSS feeds.

I find the result far more readable and calming than any current online news presentation.

Starting point was CNN's "lite" page, which turns out to be unordered headlines. First cut organised those heads by section, the link above adds lede lines to those stories, with more prominence and significance to earlier stories and selected sections, less to the fluff bits (sport, entertainment, food, style, etc.).

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by dredmorbius »

a123b456c wrote: post #89
herpdyderp wrote: post #4

You can insert (and tweak) this into uBlock Origin filters: ! YouTube Fix & Customization by Arch v1.8.4 ! (1/11) YouTube 4 Videos Per Row Fix (Home and Channel Pages) / YouTube Fix & Customization youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row, #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;) youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 5 !important;) youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-rende…

Didn't the new Chrome update break uBlock, or is that just for my test cell? I've been in mourning...

Chrome should still support CSS style managers such as Stylus.

You can put the relevant CSS into a custom YouTube stylesheet if you like.

(I re-skin many sites, including HN, see my profile page for links to recent-ish CSS.)

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by creatonez »

The reason I use old.reddit.com with RES instead of sh.reddit.com is very simple. The more posts that are displayed on the screen at once, the more I can subvert the algorithm by cherry picking just the high quality posts. If the UI is inflated, the more time I'll waste on crap posts.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by dzhiurgis »

ryandrake wrote: post #409
GuB-42 wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For most developing and recently developed countries, the gateway to modern technology is the smartphone. The first world had a lot of computers, video cameras and horizontal screens in general before they had smartphones. I think it plays a part.

Nothing about using a phone requires users to hold it vertically to take video.

Except it's a natural position, quicker and gives you better position. And since most of content will be consumed on mobile makes no sense to shoot horizontally.

I gave up this fight a decade ago, can't believe people still struggle with this concept.

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