cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13485819
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14192146
A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there’s a little something different with the look of the website.
Invidious on pc, Grayjay on android.
EBay on iPhone (to sell your phone and buy an android)
“To test new ways to improve the experience.”
Read:
“To test new ways to juice engagement and watch time. We are seeing if this leads to further addiction.”
YouTube keeps making things worse.
A few months ago they required that you have a watch history to display the homepage.
This week they’re showing up next popups even when you have autoplay turned off.
Using an Apple TV I probably watch more YouTube than any other platform and was given a gift of a premium subscription. It removed all ads, gave me YouTube music, but the shitty experiments continue and there’s no way to tell YouTube to sod off.
I’ve yet to find an alternative, but I’m looking…
Judging by the seemingly overwhelmingly negative response, we don’t see YouTube moving forward with this design. But tell us what you think. Let us know in the comments below.
This is a misunderstanding of how google works I think.
It’s pointless to be on any platform in control of someone like this. Enshitification will come one day no matter what happens.
It’s open source and self hosted, or barbarism.
What a strange title. Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change
No trust me, it is an accurate title. I thought I was using some shit site hosting YouTube videos at first. It’s atrocious.
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.
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.
IDK, seems like a lot of extra work when they could just not make a dogshit UI in the first place.
It’s Google – somehow they wrote the book on late 90s UI excellence and then proceeded to eat the book.
Whatever take the attention away from the unskippable 30 second ads!
Do you really get those? I don’t on PC or Android.
Yeah well. So far enshittification hasn’t stopped yet. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume a change is for the worse.
Just give me a grid of videos. No shorts, no games, no BS. Just videos.
It’s okay, as long as you don’t want to read the comments or the video description
So, how long until they delete the comment section outright?
What even is the point of the comments section?
Driving engagement. They don’t care if it’s full of trolls or spambots. As long as it entices users to engage on their platform, it’s a plus in their books
