YouTube starts making everyone’s Skip button for ads smaller
  • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    841·
    1 year ago

    i miss when people who made websites genuinely wanted what’s best for their users

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
    571·
    1 year ago

    My wife turned off her adblocker so she could watch some videos.

    Within 20 minutes I heard tobacco ads, gambling ads, alcohol ads, and some ads that sounded like outright scams.

    It’s a moral imperative to use an adblocker at this point.

      • umbraroze@kbin.social
        9·
        1 year ago

        They don’t have to be legal. In Finland we are getting YouTube ads for a sports betting website. That’s illegal. (Only the nationally regulated gambling monopoly can do that, and even they have massive restrictions on what kind of advertising they can run.)

        In the off chance that you can report the ad to YouTube (can’t do that on TV or Android), YouTube has nuked the ad. Doesn’t matter. The ad has been submitted via bazillion different advertiser accounts.

        • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          A semi global campagn on youtube was literally the “hot singles in your area” ad. Across multiple profiles and days. one was literally pedophile bait.

          Gee youtube, Thanks for the dead mouse present. /s

  • umbraroze@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    The skip button was already too small, so of course they had to make it even smaller. YouTube’s usability on Android is already terrible enough, which is pretty spectacular considering YouTube and Android are made by the same company. The seek bar barely works. The video end screen hides the de-maximise button. Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at. Just to scratch the surface!

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Pixel 7 and up got rid of the back button and made it so you can just pull from either side. I swipe “back” way too often when I miss tiny sliders. The option to use a regular set of bottom buttons makes them as ugly as possible, too, permanently taking up space in a solid white bar. Such ui shit

    • darq@kbin.social
      41·
      1 year ago

      Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at.

      Interestingly, that’s the exact opposite of how it works on non-touch interfaces. The edges are prime control areas for pointer-driven interfaces.

      Slight challenge to optimise a UX for both.

    • helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The horrible app experience is what made me switch to Invidious two years ago, and its not even an app!

      funny enough when I switched to Invidious and when videos would sometimes not load, I found that YouTube’s website on mobile was miles better than their native app.

    • sygnius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Their while goal is to make the experience so terrible that you pay for YouTube Premium.

  • lacabraenlamachina@lemmy.caEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    I’m all about malicious compliance.

    I let the ads run, after I’ve switched countries with my VPN. Best of luck trying to sell me something in Estonian, Finnish, Portuguese, Thai, etc.

  • tacofox@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    YouTube ReVanced, smarttube next, and I think peer tube though I haven’t used that one, all working wonderfully on android tablets, phones, and chromecast with google TV. Also, I am having 0 issue using Firefox and ublock/sponsor block on the computer.

  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, it doesn’t look that smaller. They probably just wanted to give it that rounded-edge treatment.

  • baldingpudenda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’ve noticed that some videos randomly won’t start with Firefox on Android. I have to fast forward and then it will load. I’m guessing it’s trying to play an ad, gets blocked, and just retries instead of starting the video. Eventually theres gonna be an add on that automatically starts videos 5 seconds ahead to avoid the opening ad all together.

        • snooggums@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          No issues for me on Firefox + UO on both desktop and a samsung phone.

          Only have a couple of other extensions on desktop, just the one on mobile, and I think other people that have run into issues over the last few months either have a lot of those or don’t clear their caches.

  • GigaFlop@kbin.social
    75·
    1 year ago

    …
    has anyone here actually looked at the images in this article
    the buttons are practically the same size, its just one is rounded

    • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      It Is literally just rounded edges, you’re right. People gotta have pitchforks for anything I guess.

      Guys, if you’re so upset over a tiny change on the skip ad button graphic then you should probably look into using an ad blocker. Just throwing that out there lol

  • tygerprints@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Youtube has lost me as a user. I’m totally fed up with being force fed garbage ads all the time when I’m just trying to click on something informative. Forget it. I can get my info elsewhere and i do not need Youtube at all. One of the biggest joys of death is going to be never ever having to see another god damned “Liberty Mutual” or “Verizon” ad again in all eternity. That’s one thing I’m truly looking forward to!!!