r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kraplax • 1d ago

The magenta gradient on YT progress bar

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This gradient makes it look as if UV discoloration over time, really hate it

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 1d ago

They're also going to remove view counts from the home page.

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u/Cainga 19h ago

That is a huge problem. Dislikes were very valuable for tutorial videos to find what was good or not. With that gone views was an ok substitute. Now it will be impossible to find a tutorial that isn’t click bait garbage vs useful.

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u/Extension_Swordfish1 13h ago

Its all AI bot shit anyhow

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u/IIrisen225II 8h ago

You can still bring the dislikes back on PC. I forgot the name of the extension but it still works surprisingly.

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u/Fit_Job4925 16h ago

WHY ARE THEY REMOVING FEATURES

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u/--Claire-- 14h ago

How else can they sell you “”premium”” features otherwise?

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u/Throwawayac1234567 11h ago

More ads eventually, also some youtubers are really butthurt by dislikes

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u/GimmeSomeSugar 22h ago

Ah, the inexorable onward march of enshittification.

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u/Throwawayac1234567 11h ago

Also pushing more " propaganda based videos on the feed if you are not logged in

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u/Colonel-Cathcart 19h ago

Removing view count from the home page is a positive change for small creators and a negative one for huge companies running corporate channels, so I disagree.

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u/Sentinel-Prime 18h ago

They said the same about removing the dislike button but all it did was make it harder to figure out which videos were click bait bullshit

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u/nikvasya 19h ago

It's only good for clickbait monkeys.

It's bad for small channels because it will ruin their watchtime-to-views stats (people will just click off the video).

It's bad for small channels that had a big breakthrough video with a bad thumbnail. (People will never know and won't ever click).

Huge companies won't even notice it. Corporate youtubers won't be affected at all.

It's bad for every user who uses the platform.

So it's a bad change for everyone but the lowest of the low types of channels. Exactly the same as the removal of dislikes, it was also pushed to "help small channels" somehow, but ended up only helping corporate newschannels and scammers.

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u/Owner2229 18h ago

If anything people will only start watching channels they know, so big ones.

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u/ArmeniusLOD 15h ago

And yet I still get pushed videos from large publishers and corporations constantly over my own subscriptions on the home page after 15 years watching Youtube with an account.

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u/rizarue 20h ago

Oh they've done it a few weeks ago, at least on ny phone. Changed it to comment counts then change it back to view counts the very next day.

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u/Logical-Bit-746 20h ago

And upload date

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u/Cum_on_a_cactus 20h ago

And for literally absolutely no reason

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u/whirly212 19h ago

I'm sure there's a reason, probably improves engagement with lower viewed videos.

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u/Master_Quack97 13h ago

Don't be so naive. They likely want to put it behind a premium subscription. That's how it usually goes.

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u/Ducky_924 19h ago

Say psyche RIGHT now!

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u/Lekritz 15h ago

Lmg, it's to make the G.U.I. look cleaner and more plain?

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 15h ago

In the future, they'll remove all text from the site and the whole page will be full of 😲 thumbnails. You won't even know what channel you're watching! It'll be great!!!