YouTube is testing a new design that you'll probably hate instantly (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 5 months ago by anonymouse@lemmings.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13485819

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14192146

A selection of YouTube viewers have recently noticed there's a little something different with the look of the website.

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[-] SlakrHakr@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

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

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 5 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.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Maybe by setting the expectation that the user will hate the update, when it becomes available to everyone it won’t be as bad as expected and thus more easily accepted.

[-] InRlyehDreaming@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

IDK, seems like a lot of extra work when they could just not make a dogshit UI in the first place.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Whatever take the attention away from the unskippable 30 second ads!

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Do you really get those? I don't on PC or Android.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

On my iPhone I do. I sometimes like those alternative websites, but they rarely work consistently. And I’m too lazy to copy and paste the link too.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

No Firefox for iPhone?

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Does Firefox block YouTube ads in the app? If so, maybe I just need to delete the app…

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

I use Firefox on android with YouTube, and I made FF th default to play YouTube videos. I might not even have YouTube app installed, I forget what I did with it.

I just got sick of ads and took action to not see them anymore

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