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The handsome tard dijo:
The problems are sheer normie compliance, alternatives lacking behind one way or the others and google investing more in boycotting competition than unfucking their own stuff.
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Most of present day Twitter is consisted of Tumblr refugees and barely anyone takes Google as a search engine even before the Jeets and AI, so YT can technically outfish the normies.

I would say the lack of any viable alternatives is a worse problem. If there are viable alternatives compared to YT or Windows people will move to them on first sight.

Breadbassket dijo:
A large Youtuber made a video going over the effects of AI videos on Youtube. It's especially noticeable in Shorts.
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20% is an understatement. The true value is like 60% and likely at 99% each day after mid-2024.
 
Danann dijo:
Based on my own research, it seems that Youtube is coded to play videos roughly 5-10 seconds of "ad space" is played, which is most noticeable if you press F5 and immediately kill the refresh progress.
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I assume this is the reason why whenever I watch a video using an adblocker or via Grayjay, there's a black screen for 5-10 seconds (sometimes with the "Experiencing interruptions?" prompt when viewing via Firefox with uBlock Origin).

tbh I'd prefer 10 seconds of a black screen than 10 seconds of advertising, so I just suck it up. It's really no big deal to me, and it's better than being forced into using the official YT app.
CEO of Autism dijo:
Every 1080p video on YT looks like fucking shit. I have literal 480p rips of movies I've downloaded a decade ago that look better at full screen than this.
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YT has been gradually reducing bitrates. There was a technical explanation quite a few pages back, but iirc it's something to do with variable bitrates and it's ostensibly to save bandwidth. If it makes the user experience worse, I guess that's just a happy little accident as far as Mohan is concerned.
 
Miller dijo:
Sifu was right. Neal Moan is bitraping us.
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Speaking of bitrate, I wonder how Youtube calculates compression when you upload a video. I just downloaded this movie trailer to grab some screenshots and the bitrate is a whopping 480 kbps. So not only is the movie extremely dark (an awful trend in modern cinema), but on top of that it's blurry because of high compression.
 
the freetube giveth and the freetube taketh away, they fixed it so you can see videos on peoples channels again but now you can't see playlists anymore. jeets really need to stop fucking with youtube
 
LazyLizard dijo:
the freetube giveth and the freetube taketh away, they fixed it so you can see videos on peoples channels again but now you can't see playlists anymore. jeets really need to stop fucking with youtube
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They need to add a dedicated refresh window button. Im so sick of having to go back and forward breaking the window trying to get it to load
 
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I called it!! I always knew they'd do this. Shorts, games, dms, gotta match the competitors in every way possible
 
I suspect this is fuckery on YouTube's end trying to get me to view ads and this is getting worst, but almost every YouTube video I start up in desktop hangs with a black screen and the "experiencing interruptions?" window come up, even after upgrading Brave again. Is this a common thing for others too that aren't using some sort of YouTube alternative?
 
Xarpho's Return dijo:
I suspect this is fuckery on YouTube's end trying to get me to view ads and this is getting worst, but almost every YouTube video I start up in desktop hangs with a black screen and the "experiencing interruptions?" window come up, even after upgrading Brave again. Is this a common thing for others too that aren't using some sort of YouTube alternative?
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They are causing the interruptions to annoy you and get you to pay. Fuck them. I stopped using Brave for youtube and use Edge with a bunch of extensions, instead. I don't see that shit anymore.
 
Destacado el 14 de Jun, 2026 por Null: YouTube has decided to dox all its users as part of its push to become a social media platform like TikTok. You should be careful to strip tracking information from share URLs.
:null: Stop freaking out and reporting your own posts! I'm running an automated cleanup already! Don't worry, I'm here to wipe your own ass for you!!!
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YouTube has unveiled a new feature: if you have a tracker link when you share a YouTube video, the recipient can now get your channel name & username.
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You can turn this off by changing the channel visibility for shared links in the Privacy settings:
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I either use PipPipe on mobile or Invidious on desktop. The problem with the latter is that links on videos are often unstable as YouTube is constantly fucking around with things to make it break so in many cases you have to juggle servers or instances to find one that does not give you the "this video cannot be played" error.

Apparently Chrome does not work with many Invidious instances. I am not surprised as Google probably has it blacklisted in their browser somewhere so that normies do not get any funny ideas about avoiding ads, but I found this out by accident when I was trying to send people links on Invidious.

I have been using forks of Firefox with Adnauseam for years so I have no idea what works and what doesn't on Chromeslop at this point. I have tested my setup with vanilla YouTube recently to see what happens, and so far, Adnauseum gobbles up ads and spews out fake clicks like it should.

I know that many people like to use Brave, but since Brave is Chrome-based, whatever slop Google and YouTube push out might also affect Brave's code.
 
notorietus dijo:
YouTube has unveiled a new feature: if you have a tracker link when you share a YouTube video, the recipient can now get your channel name & username.
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(link / archive)

You can turn this off by changing the channel visibility for shared links in the Privacy settings:
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No one asked for this

And if someone did ask for it, they should have been properly called a faggot and ignored
 
notorietus dijo:
YouTube has unveiled a new feature: if you have a tracker link when you share a YouTube video, the recipient can now get your channel name & username.
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Usually a more sensible person would suggest you arrive at new features for your product by looking at user feedback or asking yourself questions. "What can we implement to make our product more pleasant, more addictive?" etc etc.
I have no idea what the fuck these mongrels asked themselves to arrive at "shared links dox the person sharing". Did you ever wonder to yourself who sent you a specific video? If you're looking at the link, you're looking at...the chat with said person. If you're watching said video years later because you added it to your favorites or whatever...that's long been abstracted away.
That there's a radio button to turn it off proves it's not a bug, they wanted this. That's scary. I think chimpanzees would ask better questions and arrive at more interesting answers.
 
notorietus dijo:
YouTube has unveiled a new feature: if you have a tracker link when you share a YouTube video, the recipient can now get your channel name & username.
Ver archivo adjunto 9138758
Ver archivo adjunto 9138759Ver archivo adjunto 9138761
(link / archive)

You can turn this off by changing the channel visibility for shared links in the Privacy settings:
Ver archivo adjunto 9138766
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This is exactly why I never share YouTube links with their source identifier. First it was just checking who sent it and who interacted with the link, which was already bad enough but now we have this shit.

I see people still sharing links with the tracker, so here's a good image for reference:
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notorietus dijo:
YouTube has unveiled a new feature: if you have a tracker link when you share a YouTube video, the recipient can now get your channel name & username.
Ver archivo adjunto 9138758
Ver archivo adjunto 9138759Ver archivo adjunto 9138761
(link / archive)

You can turn this off by changing the channel visibility for shared links in the Privacy settings:
Ver archivo adjunto 9138766
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@Null, you might want to feature this. I guarantee that people around here will start accidentally doxxing themselves over this. People share YouTube links every day here.
 
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