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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 ttctciyf »

stephen_g wrote: post #590
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.

Yes, and I also want to permanently disable hover to autoplay on desktop / 'video previews' on mobile browser. It's stored locally in the browser and is forgotten about every four days for me. I hate that 'feature' so much.

Does this not work for you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854588

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by stephen_g »

ttctciyf wrote: post #621
stephen_g wrote: post #590

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and I also want to permanently disable hover to autoplay on desktop / 'video previews' on mobile browser. It's stored locally in the browser and is forgotten about every four days for me. I hate that 'feature' so much.

Does this not work for you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854588

It switches itself back on about every four to five days.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by stephen_g »

ttctciyf wrote: post #618
rozab wrote: post #46

For a long time the grid of videos on the homepage has been slightly misaligned. I imagine the different rows belong to different teams. This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over. I find the autoplay so annoying because it hides the thumbnail which was carefully designed to communicate why I should click on the video and replaces…

> I find the autoplay so annoying Me too! So I turned them all off: Youtube Settings -> Playback and performance -> Browsing -> video previews (off) Kind of forgot how horrible they were until I saw your comment.

In the browsers I use it switches itself back on about every four to five days on each of the four or so devices I use YouTube on. Not sure if this is a limitation of the browser local storage policies or if YouTube are 'helpfully' trying to convince me to like this 'feature' that I absolutely hate.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by stephen_g »

graynk wrote: post #348
rozab wrote: post #46

For a long time the grid of videos on the homepage has been slightly misaligned. I imagine the different rows belong to different teams. This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over. I find the autoplay so annoying because it hides the thumbnail which was carefully designed to communicate why I should click on the video and replaces…

You can disable autoplay. Both on desktop and on mobile (not sure about TVs) It's buried in the settings but it's there.

It's stored in a cookie or the browser local storage and "conveniently" forgotten every few days for me.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by [deleted] »

stephen_g wrote: post #590
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.

Yes, and I also want to permanently disable hover to autoplay on desktop / 'video previews' on mobile browser. It's stored locally in the browser and is forgotten about every four days for me. I hate that 'feature' so much.

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Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by Mr_Minderbinder »

ryandrake wrote: post #415
silisili wrote: post #331

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That tracks. It feels like as soon as you fall out of that 18-25, or 18-30 demo, the world leaves you behind. Now I understand why we always thought old people were so cranky!

I'm still using an 8 year old phone. Nobody has made a phone yet where the feature set would motivate me to but a new one. Stickers? Emojis? Camera filters and effects? Social media integration? None of this is even remotely interesting to elderly-me. The only reason I'm likely to get a new one any time soon is that the companies stopped supporting the old one with software updates, effectively forcing me to throw aw…

My phone is 11 years old, from 2014, and I will probably have to buy a new one when they shutdown 3G since VoLTE is not “officially supported” with my device.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by ttctciyf »

stephen_g wrote: post #622
ttctciyf wrote: post #621

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this not work for you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854588

It switches itself back on about every four to five days.

It's been permanent for me the last couple of years or so.

Is it because I'm signed in to youtube, maybe?

The setting propagates to other browsers signed in to the same account, I think.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by chii »

chewbacha wrote: post #570
kevincox wrote: post #463

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I call these features "dead birds" because they remind me of gifts that an outdoor cat will leave on your doorstep. They took quite the effort to do and were made with good intention, but ultimately I don't want them.

were made with good intention Not always true.

The intention was that some product manager wanted their name/team to have made impact at the quarterly review.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by chii »

darepublic wrote: post #337
a123b456c wrote: post #89

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

well if you are still gonna browse on chrome don't settle for the ublock originless experience. * download a release zip: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/releases (expand Assets). * go to chrome://extensions, toggle developer mode on * click load unpacked and select the file you unzipped the release then you also have to watch out because chrome will, still time later, disable ublock origin. You have to go to your…

It's annoying to have to constantly check for updates manually this way tho.

Switching over to firefox is the ultimate best option, regardless of any faults that firefox has.

Re: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

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Post by chii »

drewbeck wrote: post #321
InMice wrote: post #49

Thank you for writing this post! I opened youtube a few days ago to this as well. On a 24" 1440p monitor its ridiculous. It's incomprehensible there's a UI/UX team that gets paid millions of dollars per year and the result is changes like this. Thank you again for writing this post. After searching it seems like they've been "testing" this in segments for a while now. As a result I installed the "Control Panel for Yo…

"It's incomprehensible there's a UI/UX team that gets paid millions of dollars per year and the result is changes like this." Unfortunately UX teams aren't actually paid to make great UX, especially at large corps and any place ad-driven. They're paid to move the metrics and move the revenue line.

the question then becomes why do these bad UX/UI design makes higher revenue (and what makes them game the metrics too)?
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