A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there’s a little something different with the look of the website.
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You can, you just have to click on that “expand” button instead of able to do it right away.
Like, why, goog, why
They’re putting the information on the side? What’s next, 1-to-5-star rating system? Fugly yellow background color? Buffering?
Very recently I started noticing that if you search anything on YouTube you don’t find what you need at all unless you add many keywords and even then, the site only gives you one coherent answer and tons of garbage you don’t need.
Mostly because, instead of giving you videos on the full set of keywords you use, it gives the first video which is based on all of them, and all subsequent videos based on just a single of such keywords, so mainly you get a lot of crap from influencers or such.
Has anyone else experienced this and knows if there is a way around it?
Nope, been happening way before that and ProZD already made a video documenting it about a month ago. You can improve the results somewhat by playing around with the “tags” at the top of the screen.
Yesterday I noticed something. I was searching for a few different things, but only got completely random garbage. That was the only time so far I noticed that. Before yesterday the search was fine. I hoped that was just a hiccup, but we will see…
I would expect nothing less from Google, TBH. I already use like 3 plugins to fix their shitty design decisions.
Which ones?
BlockTube, Return YouTube Dislike, and SponsorBlock
Aha. For the desktop, I just use FreeTube that has those built in. Downside is not having the same interaction with the YouTube account to keep track of what you’ve seen.
For the mobile device I used a modded version of the official app that also does them.
For the TV I have a custom android app that I share a YouTube URI to, and it sends it to the home server, downloads the video with yt-dlp and makes it available on jellyfin.
For some reason, having extensions on the browser just creeps me out. They have permissions to do so much, and know so much.
Y not use smarttube next on tv?
My TV OS isn’t based on android.
Gotcha. Cheap firetv stick would be an option for people not as tech savvy as you.
I’m use newpipe so I don’t give a flying fuck anyway…
I didn’t know there was newpipe for desktops…
Too many changes and Newpipe functionality may break
They switched it for me, and can confirm, absolutely hate it.
I don’t really comment much on youtube and i hate it. This design really feels like whoever make the decision spend too much time on porn site.
It’s really annoying. And the funny part is, it flip flops each time I visit. Comments on the right, comments below, right, below. Google is famous for mucking things up. Maybe someone should get User input for once.
On desktop…
Looks like crap, but the fact they’re testing it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to deploy it for everyone. Sometimes they do test with a small subset of users to see how people respond to specific things.
I’m super ambivalent.
I don’t care for related videos or the description and least of all the comment, so which is bigger or smaller below makes 0 difference to me. I click on a video to watch that video, not all the other shit around it.
It’s really annoying. And the funny part is, it flip flops each time I visit. Comments on the right, comments below, right, below.
Google is famous for mucking things up.
Maybe someone should get User input for once.My grandma would say “the devil fiddled so much with the son’s eye that he pierced it”. That’s the case here - user interface designers keep messing with shit that works fine, until it doesn’t.
Freetube still looks good to me 👍
I noticed the other day when I accidentally logged in with a different account. Confused the shit out of me. Obviously this is all about presenting ‘related content’ more prominently and driving that engagement.
