Just… why??
It’s fine. What I cannot stand is showing suggested content in the damn search results.
Yes search results, you search “how to install a water heater” and would get a video about how to inspect a house with small line says “people also watched this”
Fuck YouTube CEO.
Search: apples
People also watch this: The golf ball paradox
I can definitely relate
…now? Bud, they’ve done this for ages, both on mobile and desktop how the hell have you not noticed it? It used to be even more obvious on desktop because they’d put it up as the first item in the ‘related videos’, but they got rid of that so now you don’t know what it’s going to start autoplaying until it happens, which is mildly annoying when you’re listening to music and can’t see what’s up next
Yeah I have to be honest, I know they’ve been doing this for ages, but I’ve never seen them doing it in this form until now.
I moved into a new place and I’ve heard it’s a good idea to flush out you water heater at least once a year. So I looked up how to do that on YouTube. Found a good video after maybe 1 or 2 that weren’t great, but I got it done.
Then YouTube is like “OH THIS GUY LOVES WATER HEATERS??? HERES SOME MORE VIDEOS ABOUT THAT!!!”
Ryan George did a take on this
The same for any shopping ads.
“Oh hey you bought this item that you only need one of? Here’s ads for it for three months?”
Incognito helps
The classic UGH of YouTube.
I miss pre-google YouTube
Pre-google youtube only existed for a year and it wasn’t that great. What I miss is the early Google era. 2007-2010
I miss thinking to myself, “Google? That’s a silly name. I’ll stick to Alta Vista.”
Ok Grandpa it’s time for your nap
What do you have against amateur porn?
I just got up from my nap, whippersnapper
Uh oh, stay clear of this feisty mf for the next eleven minutes
Its more ridiculous when you search a thing.
- Some Relevant video
- Maybe relevant video
- Video a bit too different from the query
- “People also watch this”: Totally unrelated video which I have no history of watching it at all 5… More people also watch this-kind of videos
n. Loop from first result
This I can relate to
I hate it when YT slowly boxes you into a corner with like the same couple of channels and a bit of nonsense for good measure. And then it starts recommending videos you’ve already watched for so reason. I mean how many millions of hours are uploaded everyday? Is there nothing else you can show me?
Makes it really hard for new channels to grow too
I constantly get 5-10 year old science type vids like sci show and veritasium. The same maybe 10 get constantly put on the home screen.
Use third party cleints
The video is over though, so what does it matter? Have you checked out ReVanced?
Yeah, do they think we want the app redesigned? Do they have nothing better to do?
YouTube has had enough redesigns already imo.
Also they added background color on mobile’s fullscreen and it’s so distracting. I wish they put an option to keep it black again.
And halfway through my search on my subscribed they change back to desktop format so everything is super tiny. I’m not that old but the tiny unreadable print and Itty bitty links infuriate me. Some days the audio isn’t synced properly with any of the videos which is super weird.
I thought you were talking about the new “I’m feeling lucky” thing they’ve been putting in my feed.
The what now?
This:
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Right? Some times it’s worthwhile but last time got a fucking movie trailer -_-
Next time I’ll get a screenshot. It will appear in my feed and says something like “looking for something different?”
