• @[email protected]
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    8110 months ago

    What a strange title. Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change

    • @woelkchen
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      7710 months ago

      Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change

      As someone who has the “pleasure” to be selected as beta tester for YouTube changes all the time, I fully agree with the headline because I also have immediate bias when they change something. Every single time it has been awful and more often than not I get outright broken changes which is why I have a user agent changer installed to switch to an ancient Edge user agent when affected because YT’s legacy UI often doesn’t get the same changes.

      Also, I’m a YT Premium subscriber. I’m not paying to be a beta tester.

      • @danc4498
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        810 months ago

        Maybe by setting the expectation that the user will hate the update, when it becomes available to everyone it won’t be as bad as expected and thus more easily accepted.

        • @[email protected]
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          3110 months ago

          IDK, seems like a lot of extra work when they could just not make a dogshit UI in the first place.

          • Aniki 🌱🌿
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            1710 months ago

            It’s Google – somehow they wrote the book on late 90s UI excellence and then proceeded to eat the book.

          • @danc4498
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            610 months ago

            Whatever take the attention away from the unskippable 30 second ads!

            • @systemglitch
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              210 months ago

              Do you really get those? I don’t on PC or Android.

              • @danc4498
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                110 months ago

                On my iPhone I do. I sometimes like those alternative websites, but they rarely work consistently. And I’m too lazy to copy and paste the link too.

                  • @DontTreadOnBigfoot
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                    210 months ago

                    It’s available, but you can’t use extensions, so ads are rampant

                  • @danc4498
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                    110 months ago

                    Does Firefox block YouTube ads in the app? If so, maybe I just need to delete the app…

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          Nah they’ll still hate the update and then call the journalist a shill for trying to put a positive spin on the change.

    • @[email protected]
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      810 months ago

      I thought it was making fun of people for always initially hating on UI redesigns.

      Same thing with logo changes

    • @systemglitch
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      410 months ago

      No trust me, it is an accurate title. I thought I was using some shit site hosting YouTube videos at first. It’s atrocious.

    • @BradleyUffner
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      310 months ago

      Just give me a grid of videos. No shorts, no games, no BS. Just videos.

    • Rolivers
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      210 months ago

      Yeah well. So far enshittification hasn’t stopped yet. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume a change is for the worse.