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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by westacular »

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 latest version of YouTube for Apple TV has broken swiping on the remote's trackpad to select videos. (For the older style black Siri Remote, at least.)

The direction of your swipe no longer matters. All the app does is interpret wherever your finger _lifts up_ as a _directional tap_ on that side of the trackpad. So you can't do nice smooth accelerated swiping like it works _everywhere else in tvOS_; you can only use the remote as a bad D-pad.

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Post by ericmcer »

binarymax wrote: post #130

Why. Why are they doing this. It’s the same with Netflix. I don’t understand. What is the metric that goes up when they show a couple giant videos.

I think it has to do with their CDN and edge caching? If you can get everyone to watch the same 10 videos it’s easy to serve content.

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Post by daliusd »

bentt wrote: post #546

I really don't understand why there are not sites that curate Youtube videos? Like, present basically the same recommendation UI, but just hand pick cool videos around different topics? Hell, it could even be like Reddit with voting... but the algorithmic recommendation engine that Youtube uses is NOT aligned with my interests. It's aligned ONLY with my behavior. I want to learn! I want to explore! I do NOT want to g…

Maybe there are subreddits for that?

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Post by mafuy »

sunaookami wrote: post #449
immibis wrote: post #440

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's almost like ad monopoly company Google pays them millions of dollars.

Not everything is a conspiracy theory. Mozilla's reviewers were already infamous in the XUL era. Mozilla's dumbness is not due to Google it's due to them themselves.

One would think properly reviewing one of the most important addons in Firefox would warrant spending sufficient resources, which Mozilla seems to have for less impactful stuff.

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Post by mnbpdx »

array_key_first wrote: post #555
crote wrote: post #495

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now we just need someone to build AR glasses with real-world adblocking...

Ahh, but once you get neurolink and the ads are injected directly into your subconscious mind what happens then? I propose a new natural law: every medium that can carry advertisements, will. Exhibit A: gasoline pumps. Why do those have ads? I'm already paying for gas. And I can't even run away.

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Post by cm2012 »

mrguyorama wrote: post #618
cm2012 wrote: post #119

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Also, Youtube pays out more to creators than anyone else on the web, they dwarf Patreon 10x. People who make youtube videos rely on ads to get paid.

This is frankly wrong. All the creators I watch make their money from Patreon and use Youtube basically as a way to advertise Patreon to people. This was such a problem for Youtube that they flirted with banning linking to Patreon or suggesting viewers go to it. Not because it was taking money from google, but because it was money being paid not to google. Then Google competed by adding their own form of Patreon buil…

Youtube pays out $25b per year to creators.

Patreon pays out $300m total across everything people use it for per year.

Not even close in scale.

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Post by jason_oster »

ZekeSulastin wrote: post #317
jason_oster wrote: post #306

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Neither of these are available on Apple TV. Otherwise, you make a good suggestion; install them where available.

At least for SponsorBlock you can run iSponsorBlockTV[1] on another computer on the same network - in addition to skipping sponsored segments, it also mutes YouTube’s own ads and auto-skips them as soon as it can. [1] https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

Thanks, it looks like a helpful workaround for now. Hoping someday SponsorBlock can be ported to tvOS.

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JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12

I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use it through the browser with adblockers. (Yes, on my phone and iPad.) It works so well I’ve gotten at least half a dozen neighbours to do the same. If you haven’t tried it, it’s a definitive step up in UX.

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Post by nojs »

danpalmer wrote: post #36
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12

I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use it through the browser with adblockers. (Yes, on my phone and iPad.) It works so well I’ve gotten at least half a dozen neighbours to do the same. If you haven’t tried it, it’s a definitive step up in UX.

I do pay for YouTube Premium, I see no ads, and everything works pretty conveniently. What's your point, that with a bit of extra effort you can pirate content?

I also like that there’s no ads in premium. Speaking of premium things, I also really like Brilliant for learning things quickly and Surfshark VPN because it protects my privacy when I’m on the go.
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