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Why are Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel crap always showing up in "related" vids, no matter what the vid is? I don't even watch them.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Why are Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel crap always showing up in "related" vids, no matter what the vid is? I don't even watch them.
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TV networks paying YouTube to push them. Colbert is going off the air next month I think and Kimmel won't last long after that so they'll disappear in a couple of years.
 
Today for the first time it gave me the "sign in to confirm you're not a bot" and I haven't tried any workarounds yet, but my question is will it stop happening on its own after enough time passes?

It was probably my Video Download Helper extension that triggered it, but I wasn't even downloading very much.
 
The handsome tard said:
I wonder how bad it needs to get before people make the move to a new site
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Never gonna happen. if the other shit didn't scare them off, then nothing will budge them. In a decade or more YouTube had:
  • an "adpocolypse" that ruined "content creators" income for a while
  • companies cracking down on the stuff that can be posted on that site and using the "to protect the kids" excuse as a cover-up
  • removed various features that people liked in favor of useless dogshit ones that make the site worse
  • made it harder to fight a strike/takedown while the person that does the strike/takedown pretty much automatically wins because fuck you
  • Killing creativity by limiting what copyright shit is acceptable to use for content
  • Censoring/Shadowbanning specific content, especially if it's political from one side.
And probably more that I'm missing. Any one of those would have made anyone else jump ship. You would need someone huge like a Pewdiepie or Markiplier for something like that to change people's minds and even then it's a coin-toss regarding whether it'll work.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
Never gonna happen.
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Never say never. I'm old enough to remember the days when IBM was a virtually unassailable name in business computing, from the mainframe to the desktop. There was even a saying, "No one ever gets fired buying IBM."

It only took a few shifts in the marketplace for IBM's personal computer business to eventually end up being a debt-ridden sinkhole that was sold off to Lenovo.

That said, I have no idea what shifts have to take place in video streaming for a competitor to takeover from YouTube. The move to a few walled gardens online has effectively destroyed people's desire or ability to visit multiple sites for things like video.
 
I barely watch YouTube, but I've noticed Indians will make machine-generated videos with their ugly music, or just react to someone else's video. I'll click on a video out of boredom, and there's Manpreet's ugly face with no chin staring back at me from the corner of the real video while fucking Indian chanting plays.
Zyklon C said:
That said, I have no idea what shifts have to take place in video streaming for a competitor to takeover from YouTube. The move to a few walled gardens online has effectively destroyed people's desire or ability to visit multiple sites for things like video.
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What'll probably happen is big names will make the move, and their audiences will follow. YouTube mostly hosts garbage which won't be preserved, but an individual can very easily ensure his videos are viewable by his audience. This was an early application of BitTorrent, by the by. It's not hard to imagine these people teaching their audiences how to use it and having next to no issue sharing videos. The only downside for them is a lack of control—there will be no way to figure out how many people are watching, nor how they're doing so—and it won't be possible to take down or edit videos after the fact—although this is positive for everyone else.
 
Is there any actual way of getting the YouTube recommendations under control? The "not interested" button does nothing and resetting the history only brings back all the garbage I don't want. Most plugins just remove the recommendations altogether, I'm looking for a way to tame these.
 
SIMON THE PIEMAN said:
Is there any actual way of getting the YouTube recommendations under control? The "not interested" button does nothing and resetting the history only brings back all the garbage I don't want. Most plugins just remove the recommendations altogether, I'm looking for a way to tame these.
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I gave up and just uBlocked the entire shelf and endscreen. Bring back tags and return it to being related videos instead of recommended.
 
dick brain said:
Have problem, seeking solution.

I watch youtube in trannyfox with adnauseum on grapheneos and it's mostly fine, but as of recently when I search for a video -- say for instance, Eminence Front by The Who -- when I click on the video in the search results, which is a single video and not a playlist, the shithead faggot retard jeets at kikepipe have decided that it should be a playlist or """"""Mix"""""" anyway.

I have tried some trannyfox addons that hide """""""""""Mixes"""""""""""" from search results, but that isn't helpful because due to the shekel grubbing enshitification of the shitsmeared mongoloids vibe coding this garbage heap and personally making me racist, that's every result.

Does anyone know of an addon or something that will strip the stupid fucking horseshit from the URLs when I open them, like how they strip the ID string or whatever?

I'd rather not have to use a separate app.

Also worth noting that this seems to only happen when I'm not signed in. But I like not being signed in because why the fuck should I sign in.
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Update: I found this which seems to work.



Be aware that whatever fuckery it uses to accomplish this seems to impede the ability to ctrl+click to open a result in a new tab. But it seems to only do this to results that would have opened a """"""""mix"""""""", regular videos are unaffected. You can still right click -> open in new tab.
 
Youtube killed my home feed because I have watch history paused, and is just telling me to turn on watch history if I want videos tailored to me. I'm not sure if this is a bad thing. I won't scroll through community posts from channels I've never watched but can't block and I won't see all those videos recommended to me about tophia and nova online. I was thinking they were making using youtube through a browser unbearable to force everyone into using the app and breaking things like pipepipe because of that, but this works out quite well. Now I don't have a list of bullshit to scroll before I go to bed that I never watch anyways.
 
I've only just realized they've rolled out a 'new'(I don't know why but I wasn't seeing it until now) UI.
I initially didn't like it because instead of letting me right click to copy a video link I now have to press some button on the bottom left to copy the link to clipboard, and audio+settings have been moved from the bottom left to the top right like the shitty mobile UI.

I now hate it because the only times I interact with this UI is when it's an embedded video and the audio slider keeps disappearing every time you approach the mute/lower volume threshold. It's because it's a shit ass mobile inspired UI and the frame is tiny when it's an embedded video, so the entire volume bar takes up the vertical space of said frame and because it's a shit ass mobile inspired UI it has to fade elements in and out based on a 5 kilometer radius around your cursor.


I have a video for it attached but for some reason I cannot play in preview it no matter how I encode that video so instead have a screenshot of the frame of when the volume control starts fading out.
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BiggestKai said:
I've only just realized they've rolled out a 'new'(I don't know why but I wasn't seeing it until now) UI.
I initially didn't like it because instead of letting me right click to copy a video link I now have to press some button on the bottom left to copy the link to clipboard, and audio+settings have been moved from the bottom left to the top right like the shitty mobile UI.

I now hate it because the only times I interact with this UI is when it's an embedded video and the audio slider keeps disappearing every time you approach the mute/lower volume threshold. It's because it's a shit ass mobile inspired UI and the frame is tiny when it's an embedded video, so the entire volume bar takes up the vertical space of said frame and because it's a shit ass mobile inspired UI it has to fade elements in and out based on a 5 kilometer radius around your cursor.


I have a video for it attached but for some reason I cannot play in preview it no matter how I encode that video so instead have a screenshot of the frame of when the volume control starts fading out.
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I've noticed this as well. It seems really finicky, it often just disappears before you can click on the bar. An annoying change probably only made to justify someone's employment.
 
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