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Post by haukilup » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 1:41 PM UTC

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #46

roansh wrote: post #44

Why does it need permission to Read and Change the data on _all_ of the websites that a user visits? There are so many cool extensions but most of them need access to every single domain - even if its functionality doesn't need it. Which is what keeps me (and probably a lot many other people) away from installing them.

I don't think you have the option to say "this app needs Read and Change for just this one domain," it's pretty much an all or nothing sort of deal. This one uses it to edit the page on YouTube, so it has to require it for all.

Post by soneil » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 1:45 PM UTC

witty_username wrote: post #45

virtualized wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my personal experience as a YouTube user: - There are these weirdly looking fixed (Googleish) bars for no other reason than to steal my screen space. - Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched. - The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept. I usually care only about specific series of videos, not the whole channel. Example: New movie reviews,…

> I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works. Why? The ads aren't that bad. > There are wrong defaults like showing annotations or autoplay. From a business perspective, autoplay is good as it leads to more videos being watched.

Post by xyclos » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 1:49 PM UTC

BinaryResult wrote: post #53

tnorthcutt wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do have that option. WikiTube, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, only requires read & change permissions for "all wikipedia.org sites".

Indeed, that one was an insta-add for me, this one however I will pass on until it is similarly restricted to youtube domains.

Post by kmiroslav » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 1:51 PM UTC

virtualized wrote: post #41

andy_ppp wrote: post #7

I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).

This is my personal experience as a YouTube user: - There are these weirdly looking fixed (Googleish) bars for no other reason than to steal my screen space. - Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched. - The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept. I usually care only about specific series of videos, not the whole channel. Example: New movie reviews,…

Post by rantanplan » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 1:55 PM UTC

soneil wrote: post #64

witty_username wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works. Why? The ads aren't that bad. > There are wrong defaults like showing annotations or autoplay. From a business perspective, autoplay is good as it leads to more videos being watched.

> Why? The ads aren't that bad. Honestly, the ads are easily the worst part of youtube for me. I'm logged into my google account, everywhere, all the time. And yet they still appear to go out of their way to find the least relevant ads they can find. Adsense doesn't seem to suffer the same, so this disconnect has always puzzled me.