i miss when people who made websites genuinely wanted what’s best for their users
Yeah, geocities was great!
YTMNDs are still the pinnacle of web design, change my mind
The charm of the early WWW.
Still exists. It’s what I do for a living.
My wife turned off her adblocker so she could watch some videos.
Within 20 minutes I heard tobacco ads, gambling ads, alcohol ads, and some ads that sounded like outright scams.
It’s a moral imperative to use an adblocker at this point.
Are tobacco ads legal where you live? Not sure I’ve ever even seen one in my life.
They don’t have to be legal. In Finland we are getting YouTube ads for a sports betting website. That’s illegal. (Only the nationally regulated gambling monopoly can do that, and even they have massive restrictions on what kind of advertising they can run.)
In the off chance that you can report the ad to YouTube (can’t do that on TV or Android), YouTube has nuked the ad. Doesn’t matter. The ad has been submitted via bazillion different advertiser accounts.
A semi global campagn on youtube was literally the “hot singles in your area” ad. Across multiple profiles and days. one was literally pedophile bait.
Gee youtube, Thanks for the dead mouse present. /s
lol, hilarious, reader mode it is then
Fuck that Admiral antiadblock.
The skip button was already too small, so of course they had to make it even smaller. YouTube’s usability on Android is already terrible enough, which is pretty spectacular considering YouTube and Android are made by the same company. The seek bar barely works. The video end screen hides the de-maximise button. Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at. Just to scratch the surface!
Pixel 7 and up got rid of the back button and made it so you can just pull from either side. I swipe “back” way too often when I miss tiny sliders. The option to use a regular set of bottom buttons makes them as ugly as possible, too, permanently taking up space in a solid white bar. Such ui shit
Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at.
Interestingly, that’s the exact opposite of how it works on non-touch interfaces. The edges are prime control areas for pointer-driven interfaces.
Slight challenge to optimise a UX for both.
Their while goal is to make the experience so terrible that you pay for YouTube Premium.
I’m all about malicious compliance.
I let the ads run, after I’ve switched countries with my VPN. Best of luck trying to sell me something in Estonian, Finnish, Portuguese, Thai, etc.
YouTube ReVanced, smarttube next, and I think peer tube though I haven’t used that one, all working wonderfully on android tablets, phones, and chromecast with google TV. Also, I am having 0 issue using Firefox and ublock/sponsor block on the computer.
Honestly, it doesn’t look that smaller. They probably just wanted to give it that rounded-edge treatment.
I just changed my dns server and I haven’t seen ads yet. So…
I think YouTube third party clients should get federation and there own content
I’ve noticed that some videos randomly won’t start with Firefox on Android. I have to fast forward and then it will load. I’m guessing it’s trying to play an ad, gets blocked, and just retries instead of starting the video. Eventually theres gonna be an add on that automatically starts videos 5 seconds ahead to avoid the opening ad all together.
Have you tried ReVanced or ReVanced Extended?
I’ve heard of it, but havent tried it yet. It hasn’t been enough of a problem for me to start looking, but, looking at it now, this just might be what I need. Thanks
Vouch for Revanced, it’s incredible
I just got it and now figuring out all the settings. The internal ad skips or whatever it’s called are gold.
On a related note, anybody else having problems with uBlock on Firefox today?
Nope, just checked and not seeing any ads on channels that I assume have them.
I’ve been getting YouTube blocking the videos. I can watch on Freetube, just wondering.
No issues for me on Firefox + UO on both desktop and a samsung phone.
Only have a couple of other extensions on desktop, just the one on mobile, and I think other people that have run into issues over the last few months either have a lot of those or don’t clear their caches.
Ublock is different than ublock origin. They are not the same thing.
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has anyone here actually looked at the images in this article
the buttons are practically the same size, its just one is roundedIt Is literally just rounded edges, you’re right. People gotta have pitchforks for anything I guess.
Guys, if you’re so upset over a tiny change on the skip ad button graphic then you should probably look into using an ad blocker. Just throwing that out there lol
Youtube has lost me as a user. I’m totally fed up with being force fed garbage ads all the time when I’m just trying to click on something informative. Forget it. I can get my info elsewhere and i do not need Youtube at all. One of the biggest joys of death is going to be never ever having to see another god damned “Liberty Mutual” or “Verizon” ad again in all eternity. That’s one thing I’m truly looking forward to!!!
Go out and make your own video storage and streaming service then.
With blackjack and hookers
Hmmm that sounds great to me! When can I get the hookers? I’m all for it!
