Has anyone else noticed that YouTube has hidden the "skip to next video" button in a bunch of contexts? (in the mini player on desktop, in the big player for the first 30 seconds of the video?)
I'm so sick of updates to UI that clearly aren't about the user and instead are trying to get the user to consume content the way that the company wants.
Adversarial design.
@futurebird I don't think I've ever pressed the "next video" button intentionally, but that is so blatantly anti-user
I curate my videos by choosing them all and putting them on a playlist. Then I let it play. But I will OFTEN hit that button if a video isn't what I expected, or if it has a long out-tro etc.
I didn't realize I used it so often and now I'm grumpy.
@futurebird @Cheeseness Since I just yt-dlp all the videos and drop them in a folder, click "watch later", then use a program to play them from smallest to largest, my equivalent to the next video button is to just close the mpv window. If a video isn't what I wanted, I have to go to my watch later list and delete the video. In order for the views to count, I launch a VM and have it consume my entire watch later list at 240p using the youtube web player...
Needless to say, the way that I watch youtube is very counter to what they designed because I'm trying to avoid this adversarial design. I actually just combine many video sites into one folder of videos.
Needless to say, the way that I watch youtube is very counter to what they designed because I'm trying to avoid this adversarial design. I actually just combine many video sites into one folder of videos.
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