A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there's a little something different with the look of the website.
  • SlakrHakr@lemm.eeEnglish
    644·
    7 months ago

    What a strange title. Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      532·
      7 months ago

      Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change

      As someone who has the “pleasure” to be selected as beta tester for YouTube changes all the time, I fully agree with the headline because I also have immediate bias when they change something. Every single time it has been awful and more often than not I get outright broken changes which is why I have a user agent changer installed to switch to an ancient Edge user agent when affected because YT’s legacy UI often doesn’t get the same changes.

      Also, I’m a YT Premium subscriber. I’m not paying to be a beta tester.

    • systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      No trust me, it is an accurate title. I thought I was using some shit site hosting YouTube videos at first. It’s atrocious.

    • Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Yeah well. So far enshittification hasn’t stopped yet. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume a change is for the worse.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    38·
    7 months ago

    YouTube keeps making things worse.

    A few months ago they required that you have a watch history to display the homepage.

    This week they’re showing up next popups even when you have autoplay turned off.

    Using an Apple TV I probably watch more YouTube than any other platform and was given a gift of a premium subscription. It removed all ads, gave me YouTube music, but the shitty experiments continue and there’s no way to tell YouTube to sod off.

    I’ve yet to find an alternative, but I’m looking…

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      I just use NewPipe. It gets rid of all the garbage.

      Though, you say you use an Apple TV, so I’m guessing you have an iPhone. In that case, you’re kind SOL until Apple allows side-loading.

      • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        You’re out of luck for Apple TV, but not for iOS. I uninstalled YouTube from my phone and use Orion browser as my default now. It lets you install extensions from the Firefox or Chrome store, so I have ublock origin installed on my phone now and YouTube ads are gone.

  • parpol@programming.devEnglish
    173·
    7 months ago

    Invidious on pc, Grayjay on android.

    EBay on iPhone (to sell your phone and buy an android)

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    7 months ago

    In some ways it’s not terrible. Putting chat to the side makes sense. What I can’t stand is polluting the viewing area with the top edge of the recommended videos, and not even the whole frame of the preview. It feels like the page isn’t scrolled completely up or down and it’s super distracting. Thankfully it’s easy blocked with ublock.

  • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    It’s pointless to be on any platform in control of someone like this. Enshitification will come one day no matter what happens.

    It’s open source and self hosted, or barbarism.

  • manucode@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    It’s okay, as long as you don’t want to read the comments or the video description

        • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          7 months ago

          Great way to communicate directly with the person who posted the video. Also a good way to answer questions when viewing educational content (like cooking shows).

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          Driving engagement. They don’t care if it’s full of trolls or spambots. As long as it entices users to engage on their platform, it’s a plus in their books

  • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    Judging by the seemingly overwhelmingly negative response, we don’t see YouTube moving forward with this design. But tell us what you think. Let us know in the comments below.

    This is a misunderstanding of how google works I think.

  • pimento64@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8·
    7 months ago

    Look like the old UI. Anyone who think it’s too busy would probably be better off with a vsmile.

    • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      They didn’t oversize the recommended video thumbnails in the old UI. Either they couldn’t figure out what to do with the whitespace resulting from stacking recommended videos horizontally so they just made em bigger. Or they just want persistent ads in your peripheral vision (the first recommended video will always be an ad for users not blocking them)