Same font, same colors, same placement

Is there some new AI tool or service that is redoing thumbnails for creators?

Seems even years old videos have this new thumbnail style

So youtube started ignoring “request desktop site” requests from mobile browsers again, even from tablets.

This is frustrating for a few reasons, namely because extensions tend to work best in the desktop view, and also because youtube disables certain features (transcripts, notification list) in the mobile view.

I like to avoid useragent spoofing whenever possible as it’s helping chrome’s dominance over the web

If anyone else is looking for a workaround, add &app=desktop to the URL

Anyway, hope this helps someone!

I’m looking for channel recommendations on youtube and if anybody has any good ways to discover good content that is of interest without having to go back to the youtube recommendation feed?

I no longer use the youtube recommendation feed. There was a time not too long ago when I realised the mind shatteringly destructive nature of it. I found this community as part of my search to escape big tech. However, I do still choose to use some big tech when it can be of benefit to me. I feel much more in control now. Using a VPN, linux and freetube allows me to use youtube instead of them using me.

The youtube recommendation feed used to allow me to find new content, every one in a million videos anyway. But now I refuse to use it. So, any channels you would like to share? Any ideas on how to find new content without having to go back to youtubes recommendation feed?

Apologies for the Reddit link - I've got to dig up the direct link. I'll update!

Eat shit, Ethan hahaha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur

https://www.telesurenglish.net/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27986359

Dave's been my fav 💻 Youtuber but this hasn't sat well with me. Many have relied on him for unbiased 💻 opinions then he made a 💻 ad. His ads shouldn't be re or related to a 💻, tablet or a 📱.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27215326

If 1 asks me re a great way to know re the Chernobyl disaster, I'll suggest this. 1 of my top series.

I asked myself "How about the Fukushima Daiichi disaster?" I had 3 ideas –

1. I found an eli5 explainer using Google.

2. Plainly difficult's vid (the best for me)

3. The days

Plainly difficult's vid is more detailed than the eli5 explainer so if you're in no rush, please watch.

I was at the 20:00 mark of The days episode 4 when I stopped due to its slowness. It'd be better if it had 4 or 5 episodes instead of 8.

even using FreeTube, i have to change audio track and subtitle settings almost non-stop...

it's slightly less annoying to see wrong/unnecessary subtitles. but it's pretty confusing/tiring when the algorithm interprets sound effects or music (instrumental even) as Hindi or Uzbek or something and i have to turn off subs even if there is no talking.

audio on the other hand 🤬👿👹

even if I watch a video not in either of my 2 fluent languages, i don't ever want to hear any dubbed/ai-gen audio track.

any idea if this is in YouTube's issue tracker?

regardless, in the absence of fix from YouTube side, any clue if this can be improved on the client side?

PS - any responses telling me to just watch peertube instead will be downvoted and user will be blocked. fyi i don't reject watching peertube but my chosen antidote for the corporate streaming disease is 🏴‍☠️

edit: forgot to mention the video title auto translation presenting any and all languages' videos as if they're in my language 👿👿👿

With how big online betting has been in advertising, I'm :o that Youtube will do it. But why exclude online sports betting and in-person betting? Ban everything.

I used to be able to do it fine on my computer without really needing to do anything, I don't know why that was, maybe something to do with ublock origin? I didn't really look in to it because it worked. Then I started having to actually deal with the problem because eventually the browser couldn't just load the video no issue anymore. I had to either use Newpipe on my phone or yt-dlp to watch locally. Recently neither of those options worked. I also tried invidious or other various proxies hosting youtube videos, they are met with the same age restriction issues.

My final last recourse had been using Shutter Encoder which somehow managed to download age restricted videos that yt-dlp couldn't which is odd because I was fairly sure it was actually using yt-dlp but now even THAT doesn't work.

For a long time, Brave was the best way to do it, but then Orion started supporting Firefox plugins. Safari had some extensions that also worked for a while. Ad blocking worked perfectly, I had many options, and YT was great again.

Recently, all of that changed when YT or Apple implemented something that makes video playback stop after 1 minute. At the moment, I just have to use a proper computer for watching YT, since mobile devices don’t have functioning ad blocking any more.

Has anyone else noticed something similar? Is is just my devices, or do other people have the same issues?

Even with premium I got a banner for YouTube premium. Due to my ad blocker the banner is empty, apart from the Premium logo, but I still got a banner.

It's garbage Honestly, there are so many bugs and inconsistencies, the channel circle button has a way big hitbox whenever I try to move the video forward by few seconds I get redirected to the channel of the video you can't minimize the video window when it's in full mode and the videos don't work after you pause seriously why is this happening

Is anyone else getting this? I've heard it a few times but the 2 recent examples I bothered to remember were this one:

https://youtu.be/oSG7HpdQ34w?si=sqra8x0x1igNFzRs&t=876

Where at around 14:37 the entire video actually, not just dialogue in this instance, went mute mid sentence and remained that way until 14:49

And then this one again today:

https://youtu.be/hS2emKDlGmE?si=XFpt_MsY2Nrff_MV&t=1788

At around 29:48 where only the dialogue cuts out. The first few times I ran in to this I assumed the video had just had an editing error but it's happening too often for that to be it. I noticed recently that my laptop will do some kind of automatic downmixing of 5.1 audio so I can hear it in stereo, but only if playing through my laptops speakers and not through the dock it's connected to with attached speakers, in which case it only monitors some channels in a 6 channel audio source but I checked that by switching to the internal speakers for the sections of mute video in question and it made no difference.

So update on my last post it seems like my suspicion was correct those bots weren't to boost the algorithm, and I found this interesting video talking about it.

I noticed on so many videos comments like these lately