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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 theshackleford »

eastbound wrote: post #445
krisoft wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can’t scroll with my cursor on the page without crap happening that I don’t want to happen. Same stuff with the mobile youtube app. If you so much as graze the screen anywhere while watching a video the replay speed doubles. This is so sensitive that even a tiny unintentional finger touch, or a water droplet landing on the screen triggers it. Whoever thought that is a good idea as a feature, i can’t comprehend. P…

Couple this with the no-bezel iPhones, and there is no way to hold your phone without touching the screen and accelerating the video (or clicking on ads).

> and there is no way to hold your phone without touching the screen

Sure there is. iPhone or otherwise, I don’t touch the screen when holding my phone.

Might be an issue for people with small hands perhaps. I’m trying to figure out in what circumstances I would be forced to touch my display whilst merely holding my phone but can’t of one, so it must be a size/grip thing, or I’m just holding my phone like a weirdo.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by bukka »

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the volume slider being moved from the left to the right side on the player... They also removed the ability the use mouse wheel to control the slider too.

How does something as big as a player redesign go through so little QA on one of the largest websites in the world?

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Post by Too »

vinnymac wrote: post #44

I can't speak for the desktop experience lately, but just last weekend I opened the YouTube app on iOS to this peak user experience: https://files.catbox.moe/vzo65c.JPG

Wow, that's just a blatant scam. Wakes up bad memories of the old Windows XP days, when this type of trick was used everywhere. And people wonder why we use adblock. Google (the most wealthy company on earth) will of course claim they don't have the resources to review them, when the truth is they are happy to reap their profits from scamming old people. Same with Facebook, happy to serve ads that lure old people into logging in to fake banks and get all their savings stolen.

There's probably a rule against apps impersonating the OS on the App Store, one could only wish for Apple using a more heavy hand against this type of "experience".

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Post by qweiopqweiop »

bethekidyouwant wrote: post #212
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.

I cancelled YouTube premium and stopped using YouTube entirely because of this

Me too, and honestly my life is better for it. I'm reading more, living a more active lifestyle, and using my phone less.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by magicalhippo »

carlosjobim wrote: post #474
silisili wrote: post #437

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't doubt good videos exist - I'm blaming YouTube for boosting the awful ones so it's all I see in my first page of search results, and the 'creators' who make them.

As for search results, I cannot help you. As for recommendation, the algorithm works perfectly if you make the effort to "Like and subscribe™" to quality channels and videos. It's amazing how good YouTube can be if you curate the algorithm with this – and with dislikes if you have to.

Yeah I find generally YouTube to recommend me interesting stuff.

I've gotten recommended videos by creators with many with I've gotten recommended videos with topics I hadn't really thought about but which I ended up enjoying.

Sure there's about 10% or so that I'm not interested in, but I just mark those as "don't recommend channel" and move on. And the times I just need to check out some stupid clickbait, I make sure to remove it from my history afterwards.

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Post by pakitan »

bukka wrote: post #603

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the volume slider being moved from the left to the right side on the player... They also removed the ability the use mouse wheel to control the slider too. How does something as big as a player redesign go through so little QA on one of the largest websites in the world?

It's also sometimes buggy and I can't adjust the volume at all. I can't comprehend what in the world would prompt such a "redesign"

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by Too »

jaydenmilne wrote: post #159
II2II wrote: post #64

On the extrapolation to zero videos by September 2026: it is already here. Seriously. Clear your cookies or open a private window. All of the videos are replaced by the message "Try searching to get started". Granted, as someone who clears cookies regularly, I like the change.

Its oddly relaxing. As an aside, this is something I've noticed recently switching to KDE from Windows/OSX No one is trying to get me to do anything with my computer to pump their metrics. You log in the first time, there's a little welcome popup, and that's it. You are now free to use your computer as you wish. It's oddly stressful being a rat in a bunch of PM's maze.

I had the same revelation when doing the opposite, using Windows for two days after using Linux for years. It's a constant stream of attention grabbing distractions, questions and notifications. I don't even know what they are all doing. Like why does the graphics driver has it's own update mechanism and its own tray icon, why am i being asked to put the application as a desktop shortcut, why is the start menu rotating ads and news next to my applications. Some of them are not even metric pumping, it's just bad design. And that's just the start, the things getting in the way of you actually doing your job just don't end.

Never again.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by Too »

Everybody needs glasses, not just YouTube. Excessive padding and large flat UI widgets, where only 4 points of actual content are shown at a time, is a bad trend that's taken over the whole web in recent years.
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