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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Logged into youtube today and discovered that the subscription page is absolutely fucked now. It only shows three thumbnails per row on my 13" laptop screen and they've removed the separation by date, so now it's way harder to tell if any of my subscriptions have uploaded today. Seems like everything is going down the shitter.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's the same with YouTube Premium. They really push you hard to the "Home" page instead of your own subscriptions. You'd think that paying for the service would make a difference...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ESaaS - EnShittification-as-a-Service

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually, maybe that's a business model. B2B.

"Are you struggling to fuck up your user experience? Let our experts guide you through the process of alienating your userbase with our list of tools, including an easy-to-use jQuery plugin that automatically inserts link bate garbage around your site."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The perfect clickhole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Well aaS models themselves are usually signs of enshittification. Or should I say aSS models

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It is so hard to keep seeing content that I'm subscribed to instead of youtube just deciding I've watched enough of that sort of content and flooding me with 100 videos that are tangentially related to one video I clicked on by accident.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Youtube would really hate it if there were alternative frontends called Piped and Invidious that showed you nothing but the videos you searched for without algorithms and tracking!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Niiice! I give it 3 weeks before youtube shuts down its API tho 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The only way Youtube could do that is by making a Google account required to watch videos. Logged out users on Youtube's official services like its website and mobile app use the same API these frontends use, so breaking that API would disable its actual services for users without an account as well. You'll notice that you cannot perform any logged in actions with a Google account on these frontends, and that's because the frontends only use endpoints that don't require authentication like watching videos and reading comments. This is the same reason why Twitter hasn't shut down Nitter (the privacy frontend for Twitter) yet, even though they would really want to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Invidious doesn't use the YouTube API, but they're coming after them now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Heh, they would, wouldn’t they? 😅

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's almost as if you can create an RSS feed for any channel by using https://youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[ID_HERE] and finding a website online to find a channel's ID from their @ handle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

or you can just copy paste the channel url directly into your feed reader. most feed readers will autodetect the feed