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YouTube now suggests new content by colour (szmer.info)
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[–] 331 points 2 years ago (8 children)

So, instead of getting the ability to search for videos properly, with negative search terms, user defined video length spans, exact dates, sort by reverse date order etc... we get ambient mode and color search? Can someone please, for the sake of humanity and my sanity, erase this company and its parent from the planet.

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  • [–] 171 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Seriously, there was a time when Google was lauded for all kinds of awesome innovation, and joked about that you needed a PhD to even be a janitor there.

    Look at them now. They can't even do basic search functionality anymore, and are so misguided that they put out color filters for video.

    I 100% agree they need to just stop existing at this point.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Arent there like Ralph from the Simpsons originating jokes about how like, this crayon tastes like yellow?

    Congrats YouTube, thank you so much.

    I can now enjoy green flavored content, fuck having a working suggestion algorithm that actually recommends interesting content, I guess I can use YouTube for what it seems to be intended for these days, as an ambient noise and color generator for my monitor and room while i actually do something else.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.

    In YouTube Music, when you're building a tuner to create a station, you can't search at all. Instead, you get an endless scroll off bands and have to find the one you want that way. The order is random.

    Like .. Pandora let you do the same thing with search back in the 00's

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.

    It's not boggling; it's very simple: they discovered that having shitty search apparently makes them more money than having good search.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like maybe the term "search" when applied to digital services should be regulated. What Google et al do isn't search, it's recommendations. Recommendations can be useful, but they sure as hell don't replace search. Someone call the EU.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    if they won't regulate what 'news' or 'organic' or 'private' means then good luck with 'search'. waiting for the government to get wise and save us, still?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I absolutely hate the ambient mode. I mean, I get it, it's kind of my problem if I am trying to use ancient desktop, but it's also pretty unnecessary.

    Trying to view YouTube videos on many school computers became a pain in the ass. Some are so laggy that I can't even get to disable the ambient mode without which it would still be somewhat usable. (But hey, piped.video works.)
    Hell, even my HP 255 G7 (a fairly average office laptop with Ryzen 3 3200U) struggles with it. It gets laggy and turns into hairdryer.

    Secondly, it's distracting.

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