Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

Post by wooger » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 10:26 AM UTC

atombender wrote: post #131

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…

The YouTube app is easily the worst app on Apple TV. For example, if you pause the video by clicking the main action button brings up an overlay that takes up almost the whole screen, so you can no longer see the content in case you paused to freeze the frame. How do you start it again? By clicking the same button, right? No! By clicking up. For some reason up means back and down means to open some additional UI with…

Post by throwaway290 » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 11:42 AM UTC

joquarky wrote: post #669

throwaway290 wrote: post #597

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It's not your responsibility. That's why Google makes you do it (pay or watch ads). Otherwise they can't pay creators and if they don't get paid then you don't get content you like to watch. Lose lose. So I'd say they kinda figured it out.

> if they don't get paid then you don't get content [citation needed] You're saying no content would be created if there were no payments? Have you never met a real artist?

Post by dontlaugh » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 12:34 PM UTC

MBCook wrote: post #566

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…

That is not my experience. It’s extremely rare for me to ever need to kill an app.

Post by tcfhgj » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 12:46 PM UTC

throwaway290 wrote: post #704

tcfhgj wrote: post #695

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I did by showing that Google has plenty which they can use for payment.

By that logic Apple should give away iphones for free. This is not how things work in capitalism

Post by Sammi » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

aembleton wrote: post #584

Sammi wrote: post #513

I use the Stylus[0] extension with this style in order to fix it: ytd-rich-item-renderer { max-width: 265px; } /* Show full length title instead of ellipsis cutoff at two lines. */ a.yt-lockup-metadata-view-model__title { display: inline !important; } [0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpee...

If you've already got uBlockOrigin then you can add this to it instead of another extension. Add these filters: youtube.com##.ytd-rich-item-renderer:style(max-width:265px; !important;) youtube.com##.yt-lockup-metadata-view-model__title:style(display:inline; !important;)

  youtube.com##ytd-rich-item-renderer{max-width:265px; !important;}
  youtube.com##yt-lockup-metadata-view-model__title{display:inline; !important;}