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

submitted 7 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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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 77 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago

It's Google -- somehow they wrote the book on late 90s UI excellence and then proceeded to eat the book.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No Firefox for iPhone?

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It's available, but you can't use extensions, so ads are rampant

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I assumed it had adds, but now that you mention it, I don’t think it does. I’m gonna delete the app and see how that life is.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Nah they'll still hate the update and then call the journalist a shill for trying to put a positive spin on the change.