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YouTube now suggests new content by colour (szmer.info)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (17 children)

That is stupid. I wish it would just let me block channels for real in search. Also, I wonder how that works if you’re colorblind?

If I want something news related, that doesn’t mean I want to see Fox News or other random right wing nutjobs who scream into the camera about “wokeism” every day for 4 hours.

[–] micka190 54 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Things I wish YouTube would let me do:

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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.