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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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

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Post by amarant »

dathinab wrote: post #13
crazygringo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think so? The "I Skied Down Mount Everest" is from the Red Bull channel. It may be a commercial channel, but it's not an ad, i.e. they didn't pay for placement (doesn't say "Sponsored" like the other one).

and they are often good videos (if you like watching extreme sports related things), given the partial second video this seems likely for the account who made the screenshot but given that half a video is not a full video this still means we are at one single full video and an AD which is deceptively pretending to be a video I still think regulators should ban deceptive ads and require ads to to clearly different fro…

I dont particularly enjoy red bulls drinks, but their ads are often cool enough to be considered content.

It's probably the only company with ads that are more enjoyable than their product.

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Post by Hnaomyiph »

adrianpike wrote: post #34
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.

Which adblocker are you currently using? The arms race is getting pretty tiring...

Like another poster mentioned, I use Orion on my iPad with ublock origin installed as an extension. It’s a really great browser, only a few bugs here and there.

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Post by thaumasiotes »

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…

> Now if you didn’t know, that is not the whole title. But there’s absolutely no indication of that. The only way you actually know that is either by checking or if the stuff on the screen is clearly not the end of a sentence.

> So what is the full title? Well if you click and hold on the video, you get a pop-up letting you choose a couple of things such as play or safe to watch later or indicate you’re not interested. And at the top of the pop-up you see more words in the title. In this case you also see “(Part”.

> Yep. You get ONE extra word. Sometimes not even that.

> The ONLY way to see the full title is to start watching the video.

I'm looking at youtube right now. There's a video displayed with the title "Word Differences Between 11 Countries! | Europe, Africa, Asia , ..."

That "..." is the indicator that the title has been truncated. If you hover the title with your mouse, you can see the entire thing: "Word Differences Between 11 Countries! | Europe, Africa, Asia , America | Why Are They Similar?"

Not far away, there's "Alex Honnold Answers Rock Climbing Questions | Tech Support...", which expands to "Alex Honnold Answers Rock Climbing Questions | Tech Support | WIRED".

Am I using Apple TV? No. Is it really true that they removed the truncation indicator?

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Post by darth_avocado »

7373737373 wrote: post #8

Whoever made automatic AI dubs a default and impossible to disable also needs to be fired

While we’re at it can we also fire the guy who made it that we now have to click the channel’s mini thumbnail to open it, EXCEPT, when the channel is live and clicking the thumbnail takes you to the live video where you have to click the thumbnail again.

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Post by komali2 »

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.

I've loved Grayjay as an alternative YouTube client. It can pull in videos from other platforms as well, and it can Cast videos! AdBlock and sponsorblock built in too.

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Post by danpalmer »

jaydenmilne wrote: post #56
danpalmer wrote: post #52

What's the point being made in this article? That TVs have lower information density than desktop browsers? Like, yeah, obviously. That if you don't sign in to YouTube and don't pay to remove the ads, that you'll get prompted to sign in and you'll see ads? That doesn't seem particularly problematic. Sure it's mildly funny that a funny projection is true in a very contrived way, but it doesn't really stand up to any c…

Unfortunately I don't have pictures from before this change, but you used to get 5-6 videos I believe. Now you get two (and maybe one is an ad). The point is that I made a joke projection in my last post in April that by next May there would be only one video on the homepage, because obviously that would be ridiculous, right? Then I turned on my TV and it happened. See the previous blog post: https://jayd.ml/2025/04/…

On my Apple TV I get 2.5 thumbnails per row and 2 rows. I honestly think that's appropriate for a TV interface and I basically like the UI. I find YouTube's Apple TV app to be the least clunky of all the carousel-of-videos apps that I use.

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Post by tonyhart7 »

7373737373 wrote: post #8

Whoever made automatic AI dubs a default and impossible to disable also needs to be fired

"Whoever made automatic AI dubs a default"

well thats the thing, people is so lazy and dumb that whetever new feature is available, they didnt bother to find or turn on that shit

this is the power of "default", you cant test something is working on hyperscale if you didnt make it default like youtube does

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Post by Nextgrid »

notanormalnerd wrote: post #37

You know who has great information density? Pornhub. If you open Pornhub on a 4K screen, you will absolutely see none of the thumbnails. I think YouTube is overdoing it, but it is really a thing of: people are either using really small screens or 1080p. 4K is still not around much.

Because unlike YouTube, porn is an actually competitive industry with plenty of “tube” sites to choose from. So they have to compete on UX.
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