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YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design
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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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I'm indifferent to it. The jarring years were 2006 up to about 2015. It would shift between better and worse until it reached the point where the front page was all clickbait/ragebait/advertisements and you had to rely on your own subscriptions page. Every social media site should default to subscribed/followed stuff for logged in users but got to selll paid to promote content
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as always with corporate shit
the new design looks like it came from ten years ago
It looks like the status bars window manager users tend to customize
Youtube: ......
Everyone else: .......
Youtube: LETS FUCK SHIT UP!!!
Looks like they just adopted material you design. It's a 'whatever' change for me.
The old and the new UI still auto hides controls and the seekbar and timestamp. I hate that it hides those! Besides remember when the seekbar showed where the Ads were in marking those sections in yellow? Good times.
Revanced or Firefox with ublock, no more ads
Add Sponsorblock (included in Revanced) to skip in-video sponsor segments as well as self-marketing, recaps, etc if you want.
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This ain't a problem with PipePipe
Judging from screenshots in this article, it doesn't seem to loose or gain any functionality: all of the same controls are present.
With this in mind.
Who cares!? It's neither good nor bad. It's like the thing with playback line color. Yes, it's different, no, I didn't notice until some pointed it out, no, I couldn't care less.
I don't use the youtube app but I've hated every new redesign. Bring back the old ui