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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by its_ethan »

aspaviento wrote: post #325
its_ethan wrote: post #300

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I'd say generally accepted by the majority of English speaking/western society? If someone said they were going to "pirate a movie" there's next to zero chance they are referring to the distribution side of that endeavor. I feel like OP isn't asserting anything even remotely controversial in that definition lol

Um... no? Maybe that's true for English speakers (I'm not a native speaker, so I won't make assumptions), but thinking that Western society views it that way is a big stretch, especially with streaming sites. While some might admit to watching something on a pirate site, many people don't refer to it as piracy when they're using a streaming service.

Who is claiming that using a streaming site is piracy? No one is saying that lol

What the guy was saying is that circumventing payment to watch a movie = pirating, and it seems like you're saying that's not the case. It seems you're saying that people saying "pirating" are referring circumventing payment and distributing, which is not at all what the majority of people mean by pirating.

Pirating != distribution for the vast majority of how people use that word - it means consuming the media without paying for it.

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Post by joquarky »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #328
justinclift wrote: post #309

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> Youtube gonna fail if everyone and I mean everyone suddenly stopped watching ads Maybe that would be better? :)

cant expect much from tech bros that want people livelihood disappear

Out of context, but since you brought up AI, have you considered using AI to generate well-formed sentences on social media?

Or do you prefer to burden the reader with the obligation to decipher your vague meaning?

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

ryandrake wrote: post #614
itopaloglu83 wrote: post #541

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This was one of the most relaxing things I’ve done. Recommendations are so bad so useless, despite paying for premium for peace, it’s just hassle to interact with the platform. And shorts, just let us turn them off in the subscription page exactly like the posts. It’s utterly baffling that a multi-billion dollar video empire doesn’t provide much of an option to their users in terms of settings.

> It’s utterly baffling that a multi-billion dollar video empire doesn’t provide much of an option to their users in terms of settings. In a better world with an actual open web, we would not have to rely on the graces of the hosting company to offer us a better UI. Our browsers would act as true "User Agents" and render the web page in a way that is best for the user. Browsers should be able to by default pick and c…

I agree that browsers should be doing a lot more, starting with the cookie popups for example. If the user selected to be not tracked, there's no need for the browser to even allow things like third party cookies or javascript profiling etc. But instead the browsers are working for the websites and helping track the users.

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Post by joquarky »

left-struck wrote: post #434
com2kid wrote: post #112

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Shorts are up to 3 minutes long now. At this point they are just vertical videos. I fully expect the supported length to keep increasing!

Nah shorts have a different culture and style. I don’t mean anything technical. For me I can’t stand the style and I avoid it completely.

Most of them seem to be sped up so it's impossible to understand any speech unless you're all wired up on stimulants.

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Post by joquarky »

1over137 wrote: post #179
insin wrote: post #175

Low _usable_ information density is one of the main things I made Control Panel for YouTube [^0] to tackle, especially in Subscriptions. On a 1080p monitor, my unmodified Subscriptions page currently has 6 fully-visible thumbnails, consisting of 3 livestreams from people I only subscribe to for videos, 1 watched video, 1 stream VOD (which I'll never watch), and 1 unwatched video, so that's a score of 1/6. Scroll down…

> On a 1080p monitor… There’s your problem. You have normal hardware. The rich SV folks at google are probably all using 6k monitors. (only half joking)

It's so immensely frustrating to be frequently insulted by how little companies are obviously spending on QA these days while being out of a (UX dev) job for two years.

Many of these violations of my sanity could be fixed with less than 50 tokens worth of code.

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Post by drdeca »

joquarky wrote: post #675
drdeca wrote: post #358

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I think saying that it is morally piracy is a little bit of an overstatement. I think one does have the right to block ads on one’s machine if one chooses. However, personally, because of the “if ad blocking was universalized, the services I appreciate would likely not exist” reasoning, I choose not to block ads. As for other things like “muting/covering ads on screen”, yeah, that does seem a bit fuzzy. Sometimes I’l…

Kants Categorical Imperative is a terrible way to model reality. People are too stocastic. It's the same mistake libertarians make when they assume a fully informed and rational society.

I didn’t say others are obligated to do the same. I said the opposite , actually. Rather, for the services to remain viable, some people have to not block ads, and for this reason, I have chosen to be one of those some.

How how-well-things-work depends on the number of people doing a thing, varies from thing to thing. For some things, as long as one or more people behave in a particular way, a thing goes well. For other things, if even one person does a particular thing, things go badly. And there are plenty of situations in between.

These different situations call for different responses, I think.

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Post by opello »

polotics wrote: post #417
opello wrote: post #155

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And they can be hidden, so it's not exactly entirely up to them, nor should it be. If they wanted them in the video content they could put them there.

how can they be hidden?

Most easily using an add-on like Enhancer for YouTube[1], which has been hidden in addons.mozilla.org[2] but is still available on the author's site. But the player is HTML so writing element hiding rules (like `youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element`) is the easiest, which I figure out the relevant element using the Developer Tools Inspector tool, but the uBlock Origin Element Picker tries to make that easier. In this case the .ytp-ce-element-shadow is chosen first in the uBlock picker and then you can pick the element class I mentioned first, but it's nicer to have fewer rules to effect the desired outcome.

[1] https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube

[2] https://www.mrfdev.com/contact

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Post by wholinator2 »

rsynnott wrote: post #574
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #461

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Apple TV apps, in general, are terrible. Every single one [that I routinely use] (including Apple’s apps) regularly crash or lock up, often leaving it to me, to force-quit. Amazon has started getting into a state, lately, where it ignores the remote, unless I go back, then go forward again. This kind of “quality” is considered “acceptable,” in today’s world. AppleTV has a JavaScript-based development system. It also…

The odd thing is, they seem to be getting progressively _worse_. The Netflix one was way better when the first ‘modern’ (app-y) appletv came out, say. Even the YouTube one used to be basically _fine_.

This is one of the most painful things about the modern corporate web. Why does everything _have_ to get worse? Just why? Fucking up the basic functionality of your central app just cannot be a profit driven decision but it seems like literally every single giant corporation is constantly moving towards destroying their own systems. I just don't understand. Even windows is destroying itself. I simply cannot remember the last time i got an "update" for any single thing and it got better. Why is this happening?

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Post by thatguy0900 »

wholinator2 wrote: post #688
rsynnott wrote: post #574

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The odd thing is, they seem to be getting progressively _worse_. The Netflix one was way better when the first ‘modern’ (app-y) appletv came out, say. Even the YouTube one used to be basically _fine_.

This is one of the most painful things about the modern corporate web. Why does everything _have_ to get worse? Just why? Fucking up the basic functionality of your central app just cannot be a profit driven decision but it seems like literally every single giant corporation is constantly moving towards destroying their own systems. I just don't understand. Even windows is destroying itself. I simply cannot remember…

Noone wants to accept being feature complete even if they actually were feature complete years ago

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Post by jiggawatts »

wholinator2 wrote: post #688
rsynnott wrote: post #574

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The odd thing is, they seem to be getting progressively _worse_. The Netflix one was way better when the first ‘modern’ (app-y) appletv came out, say. Even the YouTube one used to be basically _fine_.

This is one of the most painful things about the modern corporate web. Why does everything _have_ to get worse? Just why? Fucking up the basic functionality of your central app just cannot be a profit driven decision but it seems like literally every single giant corporation is constantly moving towards destroying their own systems. I just don't understand. Even windows is destroying itself. I simply cannot remember…

Large corporations have the reigns of power seized by the political class: MBAs, sales executives, and CEOs that have never stepped foot in a workshop or factory in their entire lives… or even a shopping center, for that matter.

These people care only about each other: power, influence, money, etc.

Actually using or - gasp - improving the product is beneath them.

Or do you seriously think the billionaire CEO of some white goods company knows or cares about the quality of the wash the cheap Chinese-made washing machine does? He’s got staff laundering his clothes!

Similarly it’s very clear nobody with real power at Microsoft uses their own tools. I see their seniour product managers turn up to Microsoft Ignite with Apple Macs, for crying out loud!

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