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Mildly Infuriating

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[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago (2 children)

i miss when people who made websites genuinely wanted what's best for their users

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, geocities was great!

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

YTMNDs are still the pinnacle of web design, change my mind

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] N0ll@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Wait, that site is still online? I thought I read they shut down some years ago. Time to check out some old memes I guess

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 11 months ago

You're the man now dog!

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

The charm of the early WWW.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Still exists. It's what I do for a living.

[–] yum 3 points 11 months ago

Tell us more

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 56 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My wife turned off her adblocker so she could watch some videos.

Within 20 minutes I heard tobacco ads, gambling ads, alcohol ads, and some ads that sounded like outright scams.

It's a moral imperative to use an adblocker at this point.

[–] Pietson@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are tobacco ads legal where you live? Not sure I've ever even seen one in my life.

[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They don't have to be legal. In Finland we are getting YouTube ads for a sports betting website. That's illegal. (Only the nationally regulated gambling monopoly can do that, and even they have massive restrictions on what kind of advertising they can run.)

In the off chance that you can report the ad to YouTube (can't do that on TV or Android), YouTube has nuked the ad. Doesn't matter. The ad has been submitted via bazillion different advertiser accounts.

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A semi global campagn on youtube was literally the "hot singles in your area" ad. Across multiple profiles and days. one was literally pedophile bait.

Gee youtube, Thanks for the dead mouse present. /s

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

lol, hilarious, reader mode it is then

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 21 points 11 months ago

Reader mode is a necessity at this point. I don't even try to read articles without it anymore.

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Fuck that Admiral antiadblock.

[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The skip button was already too small, so of course they had to make it even smaller. YouTube's usability on Android is already terrible enough, which is pretty spectacular considering YouTube and Android are made by the same company. The seek bar barely works. The video end screen hides the de-maximise button. Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at. Just to scratch the surface!

[–] darq@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at.

Interestingly, that's the exact opposite of how it works on non-touch interfaces. The edges are prime control areas for pointer-driven interfaces.

Slight challenge to optimise a UX for both.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Pixel 7 and up got rid of the back button and made it so you can just pull from either side. I swipe "back" way too often when I miss tiny sliders. The option to use a regular set of bottom buttons makes them as ugly as possible, too, permanently taking up space in a solid white bar. Such ui shit

[–] sygnius@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Their while goal is to make the experience so terrible that you pay for YouTube Premium.

[–] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 1 points 11 months ago

The horrible app experience is what made me switch to Invidious two years ago, and its not even an app!

funny enough when I switched to Invidious and when videos would sometimes not load, I found that YouTube's website on mobile was miles better than their native app.

[–] lacabraenlamachina@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

I'm all about malicious compliance.

I let the ads run, after I've switched countries with my VPN. Best of luck trying to sell me something in Estonian, Finnish, Portuguese, Thai, etc.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

YouTube ReVanced, smarttube next, and I think peer tube though I haven’t used that one, all working wonderfully on android tablets, phones, and chromecast with google TV. Also, I am having 0 issue using Firefox and ublock/sponsor block on the computer.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Honestly, it doesn't look that smaller. They probably just wanted to give it that rounded-edge treatment.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I just changed my dns server and I haven't seen ads yet. So...

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've noticed that some videos randomly won't start with Firefox on Android. I have to fast forward and then it will load. I'm guessing it's trying to play an ad, gets blocked, and just retries instead of starting the video. Eventually theres gonna be an add on that automatically starts videos 5 seconds ahead to avoid the opening ad all together.

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried ReVanced or ReVanced Extended?

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've heard of it, but havent tried it yet. It hasn't been enough of a problem for me to start looking, but, looking at it now, this just might be what I need. Thanks

[–] neutral@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Vouch for Revanced, it's incredible

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I just got it and now figuring out all the settings. The internal ad skips or whatever it's called are gold.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

I think YouTube third party clients should get federation and there own content

[–] GigaFlop@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

...
has anyone here actually looked at the images in this article
the buttons are practically the same size, its just one is rounded

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

It Is literally just rounded edges, you're right. People gotta have pitchforks for anything I guess.

Guys, if you're so upset over a tiny change on the skip ad button graphic then you should probably look into using an ad blocker. Just throwing that out there lol

[–] maquise@ttrpg.network 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

On a related note, anybody else having problems with uBlock on Firefox today?

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope, just checked and not seeing any ads on channels that I assume have them.

[–] maquise@ttrpg.network 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been getting YouTube blocking the videos. I can watch on Freetube, just wondering.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

No issues for me on Firefox + UO on both desktop and a samsung phone.

Only have a couple of other extensions on desktop, just the one on mobile, and I think other people that have run into issues over the last few months either have a lot of those or don't clear their caches.

[–] SparkyTemper@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Ublock is different than ublock origin. They are not the same thing.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago
[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Youtube has lost me as a user. I'm totally fed up with being force fed garbage ads all the time when I'm just trying to click on something informative. Forget it. I can get my info elsewhere and i do not need Youtube at all. One of the biggest joys of death is going to be never ever having to see another god damned "Liberty Mutual" or "Verizon" ad again in all eternity. That's one thing I'm truly looking forward to!!!

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Go out and make your own video storage and streaming service then.

With blackjack and hookers

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Hmmm that sounds great to me! When can I get the hookers? I'm all for it!