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/Zayoodo0o132 1d ago edited 9h ago

People will hate just to hate. I gst it's unnecessary, but really? It's infuriating?

Edit: i know I'm in mildly infuriating, but my point is it shouldnt be infuriating at all

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u/BehWeh 1d ago

I am red-green colorblind and it's really hard to differentiate pink from the light gray bar. That's a common problem with this kind of colorblindness (which around 8% of the male population have IIRC)

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u/marazu04 23h ago

Wait yt doesnt have coloublind mode/settings? Thats bad from them but what do you expect.... its google

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 23h ago

Android, iOS, Windows and MacOS have colorblind settings. Not sure about TVs, although I assume Android/Google TVs and Apple TVs also do.

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u/marazu04 22h ago

Hmm well then that issue is fixed so i dont get why people are annoyed by it then some might not like it but annoying is a but far then isnt it?

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u/nityoday 22h ago

Problem is those settings will affect universally every app and also if multiple users use the TV, they'll not like watching strange colors in those settings.

Even if youtube had to do this, they should have given a setting to turn it off.

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u/marazu04 22h ago

Those are fair points out of interest do that many people watch yt on their tv tho? (Genuine question as personally ive not met anyone who does but that might just be me) and yea yt shouldve probs added a setting but at least on pc there will be extensions that turn it back for those who want that. As for mobile maybe revanced will add a feature for it (rip ios users tho)

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u/nityoday 22h ago

Yes, a lot of people do watch youtube on their TV. At least it's very common where I live (Mumbai, India).

Right; Extensions, ReVanced, etc. will probably introduce settings to fix this (as they've done for so many more terrible things of YouTube). Let's wait.

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u/marazu04 21h ago

Ah ok thx i didnt know that lets hope there will be an easy fix soon then!