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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?
I get paid a lot of money for it, so yes.
Someone at YouTube needs glasses
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If I don’t, there are 100 other people who would do it
I'm sorry, but this cop-out really pisses me off. It is far too common and frankly, unacceptable. It really is insulting that you'd expect others to accept this as a justification. It's a lazy dismissal and not even a proper excuse. You're excuse for doing something shitty is... that someone else will? What does another person even have to do with it?! Seriously, let them have the blood on their hands. You can't even…
Unsure why downvoted. To many tech folks just shrug an go with the flow even if it's a bad flow _and they know it_.
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#665Displaying more videos gives more choice to the users. It may also be slightly better for collecting data about the user. But that's reducing the impact of the algorithmic feed and is opposite to what tiktok does. I unironically agree with the prediction that the endgame is just one video.
> I unironically agree with the prediction that the endgame is just one video.
Tthe youtube shorts are already there, so yeah that is what they want you to do, just watch the first thing.
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#666The worst thing about YouTube in 2025 is auto-translation. Whoever is behind this doesn’t seem to understand that many people outside the US actually understand two languages rather well.
In my case: German and English. I don’t want either to be translated to the other, but no chance. If you switch languages in the UI, you will get the garbage translated titles.
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The video grid is mind boggling now, they keep making the thumbnails bigger, and now they don't even show two rows of 3, it's a row of 3 then a row of 3 but with only 2 links! There's a giant blank box for no reason! They added fuchsia to the timeline bar so that it now clashes in an ugly way with everything else on the page. Don't like Shorts? TOO BAD!
Do you have an ad blocker? I've always seen blank boxes in the spots where ads would have gone.
It's worse, I pay for Premium so there should be no place set aside for ads.
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This response captures it perfectly. I started at Google in 2006 and the "mini kitchens" (essentially a convenience mart) were just getting "re-organized" The new CFO was out to "cut unnecessary costs."[1] While Google was banking billions of dollars in "Free Cash Flow" every QUARTER than were cutting the 'unnecessary' costs that were something like $12,000 per employee per YEAR. So with 20,000 employees, that is abo…
This might be too deep for this thread, but... does it ever get better? Of course when I was a child my parents told me how much better my childhood was than theirs...cue uphill both ways stories. But I find myself telling my child the opposite. I'll tell her how Walmart used to answer the phone, JC Penney used to have associates that helped you in each department, Home Depot used to employ skilled workers to answer…
> And without saying as much to her, I feel like my child's life is markedly worse than mine growing up.
Growing up as a kid, we didn't even have the internet. Gaming consoles were well off into the future (NES wasn't until my teens), so we did crazy things like play outside. Being able to survive without internet/devices wasn't crazy, it's just how things were. I can't imagine going through life with anxiety level panic at the mere thought of not having a device within arm's reach at all times. The thought of wasting my childhood/teens doomscrolling and trying to think I was so important to call myself an influencer or even caring about what some rando on the internet does that I think I have to follow them is insane. I definitely feel like this is a markedly worse situation than my childhood.
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#670The worst thing about YouTube in 2025 is auto-translation. Whoever is behind this doesn’t seem to understand that many people outside the US actually understand two languages rather well. In my case: German and English. I don’t want either to be translated to the other, but no chance. If you switch languages in the UI, you will get the garbage translated titles.
Google is institutionally incapable of accepting that people can speak more than one idiom.
I need to open a private window to have proper Portuguese search results. No matter what language preferences I set, I cannot get what seems to be most reasonable: show results matching the language of your query.