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YouTube now suggests new content by colour (szmer.info)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 54 points 2 years ago (7 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.

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

    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.

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

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Add "autoplay the next episode of the podcast I'm watching if it's available." Yeah, youtube, I really wanna watch Well There's Your Problem #138 immediately after Well There's Your Problem #43. Idiot.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Disable holding left-click to fast-forward a video

    Oh god yes I hate this so much. If I want to control the playback speed of video there is an option in the settings for that. If they wanted to make it an option to fast forward by doing something rather than just changing the setting globally, it would have been better if they had picked literally anything other than me having to keep my finger on the mouse button. It should have been if I hold down the right arrow key.

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