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    5210 months ago

    Things I wish YouTube would let me do:

    • See dislikes
    • Disable Shorts (uBlock lets me filter them out, at least)
      • At the very least let me control the fucking volume on Shorts instead of muting/unmuting them only if you’re going to force them down my throat (seriously, it makes the entire video format unwatchable on Desktop because every fucking Short video is so god damned loud)
    • Disable holding left-click to fast-forward a video (I do this thing where I’m about to pause a video and hold down the click until they’re done talking and this change is just so fucking stupid, I don’t understand who needs to hold down left click to fast-forward)
    • Actually block channels I’m not interested in
    • Block videos based on keywords
    • Recommend videos based on the one I’m currently watching if my watch history is disabled
      • Seriously, since disabling it YouTube does nothing but recommend “trending” crap that has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m watching

    If they’d implement even half of that, my user experience would shoot up through the roof. But, you know, they couldn’t give a rat’s ass about user experience.

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      2210 months ago

      I’d also like them to fix the search. It only returns a small handful of results and then the rest is just recommended stuff not relating to the search

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      1710 months ago

      I know it’s been said many times, but I truly miss the old internet. Fuck this homogeneous, corporatized, spyware ridden, ad infested, data harvesting, soulless, pile of fucking dogshit called the modern internet.

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      910 months ago

      Add “autoplay the next episode of the podcast I’m watching if it’s available.” Yeah, youtube, I really wanna watch Well There’s Your Problem #138 immediately after Well There’s Your Problem #43. Idiot.

      • Ann Archy
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        210 months ago

        “Let’s Play Dumbcraft! Ep. 1”

        Then get every other Episode except Ep. 2 listed, so you have to go to the channel and manually find it…

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      110 months ago

      Holding left click to fast forward is the best feature they’ve d added in a long time

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      110 months ago

      Currently the set up that makes youtube somewhat tolerable for me is, Ublock Origin (obviously), sponsor block, Return youtube dislike, Youtube-shorts block , and UnHook. Another option would be to use invidous, Freetube, or NewPipe, but all of them are not perfect and have their own limitations.