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Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#91

Post by vidanay » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 12:22 PM UTC

I'm getting tired of the proliferation of "tooltip" style popups recently. It seems as if every other pixel triggers a popup and every time I want to read actual content, it becomes obscured because my mouse touched a hot zone or was parked on a trigger

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#92

Post by spoonsearch » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 12:32 PM UTC

37 wrote: post #46

todorov84 wrote: post #16

I've blocked these popups and the suggestions overlay at the end of videos by using these rules: www.youtube.com##.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-loading-preview-renderer www.youtube.com##.ytd-video-preview www.youtube.com##.ytp-ce-covering-overlay www.youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element www.youtube.com##.ytp-cards www.youtube.com##.ytp-cards-teaser www.youtube.com##.ytp-cards-button-icon

Thanks! Where are you applying these rules? uBlock Origin? or will this just work with any adblocker type thing?

It should work with pretty much all the ad blockers.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#93

Post by vagrantJin » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

WHA8m wrote: post #89

CSMastermind wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're also experimenting with rolling out 'most watched' graphs on the timebar when you're seeking in a video so you can see which parts are the most popular. Personally I'm all for it. It's kind of embarrassing for Youtube to be lacking good usability features that adult entertainment sites have.

Once again, following applies: Criminals and the porn industry are the two common early adopters.

It's not surprising that those industries are more than willing to pay a premium for innovation and execute. They can't survive on branding and marketing so must innovate to stay ten steps ahead of the competition just to stay afloat.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#94

Post by dijonman2 » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

krono wrote: post #48

You can disable it with the "inline playback" toggle here: https://www.youtube.com/account_playback If you don't happen to be in some or other test group, that is. No guarantees :) Absolutely maddening that feature.

It seems to revert to on again if you clear cookies, same as autoplay. Hostile UX.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#95

Post by Tarq0n » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 2:32 PM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #22

If I remember correctly, this has been there for a while. You can disable it at [YourProfile] > Settings > Playback and performance > Turn OFF the "Inline Playback" Button. The weird thing is, this settings do not seem to stick when logging off and then in again. I remember setting this off few times.

It’s pretty crazy how few options YouTube has for such a large website.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#96

Post by 37 » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 4:11 PM UTC

todorov84 wrote: post #16

I've blocked these popups and the suggestions overlay at the end of videos by using these rules: www.youtube.com##.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-loading-preview-renderer www.youtube.com##.ytd-video-preview www.youtube.com##.ytp-ce-covering-overlay www.youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element www.youtube.com##.ytp-cards www.youtube.com##.ytp-cards-teaser www.youtube.com##.ytp-cards-button-icon

This completely worked for me (for now) with uBlock Origin in Firefox on Linux.

Thanks again! Much appreciated!

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#97

Post by mort96 » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 4:58 PM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #22

If I remember correctly, this has been there for a while. You can disable it at [YourProfile] > Settings > Playback and performance > Turn OFF the "Inline Playback" Button. The weird thing is, this settings do not seem to stick when logging off and then in again. I remember setting this off few times.

I don't seem to have that option? https://p.mort.coffee/fLT.png

I'm in Firefox, where the feature exists but looks a bit different. Maybe the setting only exists for Chrome.

Fuck Google and their consistent clearly intentional anti-Firefox behavior. Google's websites are in general the worst when it comes to cross-browser compatibility.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#98

Post by 37 » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

mort96 wrote: post #97

Brajeshwar wrote: post #22

If I remember correctly, this has been there for a while. You can disable it at [YourProfile] > Settings > Playback and performance > Turn OFF the "Inline Playback" Button. The weird thing is, this settings do not seem to stick when logging off and then in again. I remember setting this off few times.

I don't seem to have that option? https://p.mort.coffee/fLT.png I'm in Firefox, where the feature exists but looks a bit different. Maybe the setting only exists for Chrome. Fuck Google and their consistent clearly intentional anti-Firefox behavior. Google's websites are in general the worst when it comes to cross-browser compatibility.

>Fuck Google and their consistent clearly intentional anti-Firefox behavior. Google's websites are in general the worst when it comes to cross-browser compatibility.

You'd think this might be grounds for some antitrust litigation, oh... wait a second.... I found a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_litigation

ps: I've never come across the coffeepaste before, but I love it. Especially love the man page at https://p.mort.coffee/ for example

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#99

Post by mort96 » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC

37 wrote: post #98

mort96 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't seem to have that option? https://p.mort.coffee/fLT.png I'm in Firefox, where the feature exists but looks a bit different. Maybe the setting only exists for Chrome. Fuck Google and their consistent clearly intentional anti-Firefox behavior. Google's websites are in general the worst when it comes to cross-browser compatibility.

>Fuck Google and their consistent clearly intentional anti-Firefox behavior. Google's websites are in general the worst when it comes to cross-browser compatibility. You'd think this might be grounds for some antitrust litigation, oh... wait a second.... I found a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_litigation ps: I've never come across the coffeepaste before, but I love it. Especially love the man page at htt…

Interesting how none of those lawsuits are antitrust related to their anti-competitive behavior in the browser or search engine markets, you 'd have thought that would be fertile ground for litigation.

Glad you like coffeepaste :) I made it a while ago since I had issues with all the other alternatives I found. Feel free to use my instance or set up your own if you want.

Re: Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

#100

Post by 37 » Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

s-lted wrote: post #74

shmde wrote: post #68

I have switched to Piped as a frontend alternative to Youtube, and Libreddit for Reddit. I don't understand why are they so adamant on making the UI worse every passing day. I absolutely loathe the reddit redesign.

It is forever amazing how artificially heavy everything is.

Wow. That is poetic and true.