Just… why??

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    At least (in this case) it’s making reasonable suggestions. Watch Tom Scott -> Here’s another Tom Scott video you haven’t seen. Even so, the GUI in the app has just become a complete mess. I don’t use it too often, but it feels like they redesign it in between every time I do.

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen some other cases where it’s not so reasonable. For example, after watching what is basically the Sega jingle for a 2009 video game, it suggests me a Cinemassacre video about why Blu-ray sucks (a video that I’ve already watched before that point). And sometimes I wanna go back 10 seconds and accidentally click on the suggested video that I don’t wanna watch, which is pretty annoying.

  • Squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    …now? Bud, they’ve done this for ages, both on mobile and desktop how the hell have you not noticed it? It used to be even more obvious on desktop because they’d put it up as the first item in the ‘related videos’, but they got rid of that so now you don’t know what it’s going to start autoplaying until it happens, which is mildly annoying when you’re listening to music and can’t see what’s up next

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I have to be honest, I know they’ve been doing this for ages, but I’ve never seen them doing it in this form until now.

  • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    1 year ago

    It’s fine. What I cannot stand is showing suggested content in the damn search results.

    Yes search results, you search “how to install a water heater” and would get a video about how to inspect a house with small line says “people also watched this”

    Fuck YouTube CEO.

  • FiniteLooper@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I moved into a new place and I’ve heard it’s a good idea to flush out you water heater at least once a year. So I looked up how to do that on YouTube. Found a good video after maybe 1 or 2 that weren’t great, but I got it done.

    Then YouTube is like “OH THIS GUY LOVES WATER HEATERS??? HERES SOME MORE VIDEOS ABOUT THAT!!!”

  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Its more ridiculous when you search a thing.

    1. Some Relevant video
    2. Maybe relevant video
    3. Video a bit too different from the query
    4. “People also watch this”: Totally unrelated video which I have no history of watching it at all 5… More people also watch this-kind of videos

    n. Loop from first result

  • Quentinp@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I hate it when YT slowly boxes you into a corner with like the same couple of channels and a bit of nonsense for good measure. And then it starts recommending videos you’ve already watched for so reason. I mean how many millions of hours are uploaded everyday? Is there nothing else you can show me?

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I constantly get 5-10 year old science type vids like sci show and veritasium. The same maybe 10 get constantly put on the home screen.

  • naalo@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    The video is over though, so what does it matter? Have you checked out ReVanced?

  • kemsat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, do they think we want the app redesigned? Do they have nothing better to do?

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Google promotes people based on launched products more than anything. Add a new feature, or build a new redesign, and you’ve got a chance at a promotion and an even more insane amount of money deposited to your bank account every month.

      They don’t promote for maintaining old products. You’d be a fool to work at Google and accept a project where you just maintain existing software, with nothing to launch you have no chance of moving up in the corporate ladder.

  • Linnce@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Also they added background color on mobile’s fullscreen and it’s so distracting. I wish they put an option to keep it black again.

    • UnicornKitty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      And halfway through my search on my subscribed they change back to desktop format so everything is super tiny. I’m not that old but the tiny unreadable print and Itty bitty links infuriate me. Some days the audio isn’t synced properly with any of the videos which is super weird.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I thought you were talking about the new “I’m feeling lucky” thing they’ve been putting in my feed.