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Dear YouTube; About that Chapter Skipping Feature (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, allow us to disable this chapter skipping feature (the one where tapping left or right to bring up the scrubber, then double tapping the other direction because 100% of people want to skip that direction some unit time - 10 seconds by default). This ends up feeling random and is just vexing.

It is the worst feature added to any software, maybe ever in the history of computing. How many hours are wasted trying to figure out where one was in this video? How much power and network bandwidth is consumed fighting this feature that I’ve not seen a single comment online of anybody benefitting from ever.

This feature is adding to human suffering by wasting energy and damaging people psychologically. Go please, look online, and consider castigating the creator of this feature in the public square. And then take a good hard look at yourself for not stopping this evil from ever being added in the first place.

Yours aye, Sane People

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I'm more pissed off about accidentally pressing a number in my numpad on desktop and it jumping to that % of the video. Who the hell ever uses such a feature it doesn't accomplish anything but making me accidentally lose where I was in that 4h long podcast I was listening to

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only number skip I use is 0 to rewind. Kinda helpful NGL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why do you rewind to the start of the video so often?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sometimes I'm watching something to analyze or I just really liked a song.

I also use j/l, left/right, and ./, for those three different types of scrubbing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I use that feature. Extremely often.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Not so long ago, I read a blog post about how some guy hates YT ads because he heavily uses the number skipping feature, and he gets the ads every time he jumps. Or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have actually used that feature, two whole times. It was great.