First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

  • Cromutorium@beehaw.org
    28·
    1 year ago

    Logged into youtube today and discovered that the subscription page is absolutely fucked now. It only shows three thumbnails per row on my 13" laptop screen and they’ve removed the separation by date, so now it’s way harder to tell if any of my subscriptions have uploaded today. Seems like everything is going down the shitter.

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    • benad@beehaw.org
      22·
      1 year ago

      It’s the same with YouTube Premium. They really push you hard to the “Home” page instead of your own subscriptions. You’d think that paying for the service would make a difference…

        • bouncing@partizle.com
          7·
          1 year ago

          Actually, maybe that’s a business model. B2B.

          “Are you struggling to fuck up your user experience? Let our experts guide you through the process of alienating your userbase with our list of tools, including an easy-to-use jQuery plugin that automatically inserts link bate garbage around your site.”

      • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.org
        6·
        1 year ago

        It is so hard to keep seeing content that I’m subscribed to instead of youtube just deciding I’ve watched enough of that sort of content and flooding me with 100 videos that are tangentially related to one video I clicked on by accident.

    • Andreas@feddit.dk
      12·
      1 year ago

      Youtube would really hate it if there were alternative frontends called Piped and Invidious that showed you nothing but the videos you searched for without algorithms and tracking!

        • Andreas@feddit.dk
          2·
          1 year ago

          The only way Youtube could do that is by making a Google account required to watch videos. Logged out users on Youtube’s official services like its website and mobile app use the same API these frontends use, so breaking that API would disable its actual services for users without an account as well. You’ll notice that you cannot perform any logged in actions with a Google account on these frontends, and that’s because the frontends only use endpoints that don’t require authentication like watching videos and reading comments. This is the same reason why Twitter hasn’t shut down Nitter (the privacy frontend for Twitter) yet, even though they would really want to.