• @woelkchen
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    7711 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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      811 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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        3111 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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          1711 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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          611 months ago

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

          • @systemglitch
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            211 months ago

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

            • @danc4498
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              111 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…

                  • @systemglitch
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                    010 months ago

                    I use Firefox on android with YouTube, and I made FF th default to play YouTube videos. I might not even have YouTube app installed, I forget what I did with it.

                    I just got sick of ads and took action to not see them anymore

      • @[email protected]
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        111 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.