Technology

59598 readers

3404 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

758

YouTube now suggests new content by colour (szmer.info)

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

259 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Things I wish YouTube would let me do:

See dislikes
Disable Shorts (uBlock lets me filter them out, at least)
- At the very least let me control the fucking volume on Shorts instead of muting/unmuting them only if you're going to force them down my throat (seriously, it makes the entire video format unwatchable on Desktop because every fucking Short video is so god damned loud)
Disable holding left-click to fast-forward a video (I do this thing where I'm about to pause a video and hold down the click until they're done talking and this change is just so fucking stupid, I don't understand who needs to hold down left click to fast-forward)
Actually block channels I'm not interested in
Block videos based on keywords
Recommend videos based on the one I'm currently watching if my watch history is disabled
- Seriously, since disabling it YouTube does nothing but recommend "trending" crap that has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm watching

If they'd implement even half of that, my user experience would shoot up through the roof. But, you know, they couldn't give a rat's ass about user experience.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

I'd also like them to fix the search. It only returns a small handful of results and then the rest is just recommended stuff not relating to the search

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know it's been said many times, but I truly miss the old internet. Fuck this homogeneous, corporatized, spyware ridden, ad infested, data harvesting, soulless, pile of fucking dogshit called the modern internet.

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

With terrible UI on top. Like seriously YouTube let me hide videos after I've watched them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not only that, let me hide whole dumbass channels. Then apply a similar function at Google search so I can spare my eyes from seeing a 1000 temu ads with each result.

Just let my choose which sites I want to block from showing me search results and ads.

[–] starman2112 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Add "autoplay the next episode of the podcast I'm watching if it's available." Yeah, youtube, I really wanna watch Well There's Your Problem #138 immediately after Well There's Your Problem #43. Idiot.

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

"Let's Play Dumbcraft! Ep. 1"

Then get every other Episode except Ep. 2 listed, so you have to go to the channel and manually find it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Disable holding left-click to fast-forward a video

Oh god yes I hate this so much. If I want to control the playback speed of video there is an option in the settings for that. If they wanted to make it an option to fast forward by doing something rather than just changing the setting globally, it would have been better if they had picked literally anything other than me having to keep my finger on the mouse button. It should have been if I hold down the right arrow key.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

One thing that brought back the joy of earlier times youtube for me was

Disable thumbnails (e.g. "Clickbait Remover for Youtube" on ff)

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

Currently the set up that makes youtube somewhat tolerable for me is, Ublock Origin (obviously), sponsor block, Return youtube dislike, Youtube-shorts block , and UnHook. Another option would be to use invidous, Freetube, or NewPipe, but all of them are not perfect and have their own limitations.

[–] Meowoem 1 points 9 months ago

Holding left click to fast forward is the best feature they've d added in a long time