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YouTube now suggests new content by colour (szmer.info)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] micka190 54 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Things I wish YouTube would let me do:

  • See dislikes
  • Disable Shorts (uBlock lets me filter them out, at least)
    • At the very least let me control the fucking volume on Shorts instead of muting/unmuting them only if you're going to force them down my throat (seriously, it makes the entire video format unwatchable on Desktop because every fucking Short video is so god damned loud)
  • Disable holding left-click to fast-forward a video (I do this thing where I'm about to pause a video and hold down the click until they're done talking and this change is just so fucking stupid, I don't understand who needs to hold down left click to fast-forward)
  • Actually block channels I'm not interested in
  • Block videos based on keywords
  • Recommend videos based on the one I'm currently watching if my watch history is disabled
    • Seriously, since disabling it YouTube does nothing but recommend "trending" crap that has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm watching

If they'd implement even half of that, my user experience would shoot up through the roof. But, you know, they couldn't give a rat's ass about user experience.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I know it's been said many times, but I truly miss the old internet. Fuck this homogeneous, corporatized, spyware ridden, ad infested, data harvesting, soulless, pile of fucking dogshit called the modern internet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With terrible UI on top. Like seriously YouTube let me hide videos after I've watched them.

[–] Advocado 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not only that, let me hide whole dumbass channels. Then apply a similar function at Google search so I can spare my eyes from seeing a 1000 temu ads with each result.

Just let my choose which sites I want to block from showing me search results and ads.

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