I found myself frantically tapping on the x on your screenshot before I remembered I was on lemmy… I am still too angry at youtube (and myself) for the time I have wasted on shorts to try out anything new it suggests. Plus it tries to recommend right wing crackpot youtubers to me everybso often which is really annoying. /rant
YouTube now suggests new content *by colour*
Submitted 2 months ago by nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info to technology@lemmy.world
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wholehalf@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Quackery has gone digital, baby!
gun@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This is a data collection strategy, not a feature
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember the old days, when your aunt would send you an invite to a facebook game that would predict which celebrity you’re most like based on unrelated and harmless pieces of data, like: (1) Your favorite color, (2) Your first pet’s name, (3) The school you went to, (4) Your mother’s maiden name (5) Last four digits of your social security number (6) Birthdate
This sounds similarly sleezy.
quaternaut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you know, I shouldn’t be surprised but I didn’t even think about that
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about astronomy but with a little more penis please 🙏?
mmagod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
their good devs and engineers have left
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 2 months ago
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 2 months ago
This is the answer
Minotaur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I just used it and I thought it was kind of cute. It’s obviously “useless”, but as a small (I assume temporary) change I thought it was interesting to see how different “genres” of videos tend to color code themselves in the thumbnail.
I’m all for small, fun little things in websites. Like anytime google has an interactive daily theme
Llewellyn@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is just farts and whistles
Minotaur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Fair, but so are most of the little interactive google things. I still like them.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Holy crap, the amount of hate in here, and no actual description of what it does. It’s essentially your normal home feed, but only the videos with thumbnails of the selected color. It’s also way over at the right of the home feed filters, so it isn’t like it’s being shoved down your throats.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 2 months ago
For me it was embedded in my feed, not in some remote setting
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, it shows up there once, then is buried to the right of the filters afterwards.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doesn’t stop it from being a dumb, pointless feature.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why bother caring? Doesn’t make a difference to me.
Jknaraa@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yea, seems like a fun and quirky feature, but unfortunately I don’t think there’s anything big tech companies can do at this point to turn things around with public opinion given how utterly egregious their other sins have been.
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Most people love YouTube, I know it doesn’t feel like it when you’re inside the Lemmy bubble but the big tech companies are far more popular than anything we like
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
Fun quirky features are things you make when you have a good product.
These types of features added to things with genuine ongoing problems will always piss off users.
DingoBilly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Seems great for giving more options for people who want this. I know a few neurodiverse people who would love something like this.
Just because it doesn’t work for you doesn’t mean it’s bad.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wtf
snek@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How revolutionaly. How disruptive. How innovative. /s
Jorgelino@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Wait that’s supposed to be for suggesting videos? When I first saw it I thought it was just for customizing the look of the feed and was very disappointed that it didn’t change anything.
egeres@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gotta respect that
Mango@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can I get a feed that’s not insisting that I watch the same small selection of garbage for months? Thanks.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Disable your viewing history. I don’t go on YouTube deep dives like I used to, but at least my suggested videos aren’t all related to some previous dive I’ve done anymore.
Minotaur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The “not interested” button is your hero. Really, just hit “not interested” on a few of the offending genre and it should get right out of there.
If you also remove them from your history - even better
Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Or the videos you watched years ago and still remember. There is more youtube video than my lifetime why the hell would i watch the same shitbover and over again?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’ll work great. More SEO to pigeonhole videos that will be abused by creators.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lmao
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Never even looked at the home tab before, when I go there it just says watch history is off lol
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I like algorithms giving me suggestions in all sorts of ways, but not shady ones. None of the people around me seem to mind, but I worry about a company like Google strongly influencing what information we consume.
vihil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly, the only social media i clearly see this is instagram and their comments. They sort by controversial to get engagement and an emotional response and affects my mood negatively tremendously (can’t find a single clip with a woman that doesn’t have a misogynistic comment in top10). TikTok is heaven for me in comparison, it’s my happy place.
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Alphabet also shapes what content creators are most likely to create by demonetizing controversial or dissenting videos.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
“Dissenting” here meaning using a swear word within 1 minute of an ad break, videos under a set length, and new content not dropping every week, in addition to what you normally think the word dissenting means
cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You have the correct idea, but it’s way too late for most people. This “pre-selection” made by most services have been in place for a long while, and these days people even complains when they are not fed with it.
It is a sad state of affair; thankfully at some point enough people might move away from these automated suggestions, but I’m not holding my breath.
DaFuqs@feddit.de 2 months ago
shady Hah
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
Nice to see another intellectual Cracking the Cryptic enjoyer. A toast in your name my friend.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah but the guy in the New Rockstars video is annoying as shit, god what a punchable face…
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Isn’t there another channel that does those? A British guy I think
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
I already suspected they did this considering how every single element of videos suggested to me based on what I regularly watch covers the same content, is in the same format, has people on camera that look and sound exactly the same, the sets are similar, the intros and outros are similar, even down to what’s on someone’s shelf in the background is sometimes identical.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hello fellow Cracking the Cryptic enjoyer
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I honestly cannot envision a scenario in which I would want something like this from YouTube.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The only people I could see this feature helpful for is those with synesthesia.
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The ASMR and meditation community sometimes embrace a specific colour aesthetic for videos. They’re also all pretty similar in terms of audio level etc so I can see this working well in that niche.
E.g. youtu.be/lziFPKhsJ2A
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Let me introduce you to some classics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3pF2jkQ4vc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLtgcSG08s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJLwidSohO8
Before you ask, no, I don’t watch these. I discovered these types of videos only a few months ago and was shocked at the viewer counts.
peyotecosmico@programming.dev 2 months ago
Sometimes the internet is weird
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
this is for people who arrange their bookshelves by spine color.
you know, idiots.
wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Why not? Not you, I mean but why not have it as an option?
Frankly I wouldn’t use it either, but I can absolutely see the appeal. Sometimes you want some warm tones, sometimes you want cool tones. Maybe you’re having a Green party for 4/20 and you’re playing Green Day and watching green videos idk.
Lol dumbness aside, my immediate thought was “this seems like it could be nice for those who sleep to videos” - I know that I don’t always want a white-blue heavy video but something darker and red
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Okay, but what if your darker and redder video is super loud and obnoxious and your blue-white video is quiet and calm? Or the dark red one is strobing and the blue-white one is calm and soft? That’s the problem with just sorting them by color. Color doesn’t really tell you anything about the content of the video. I mean I supposed this very out-there idea of a ‘green party’ could be a weird usage case, but I think that’s a very unusual event and doesn’t really justify the feature.
bfg9k@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Has anyone else noticed that if a video says ‘like and subscribe’ the subscribe button does a little animation to draw your eye to it?
Really wish there was a better way to host videos that doesn’t require a multibillion dollar company’s backing
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What’s wrong with visually indicating the thing being talked about?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Really wish there was a better way to host videos that doesn’t require a multibillion dollar company’s backing
Archive.org. For now. But people keep uploading full copyrighted movies to it and there appears to be no content moderation, so at some point there will be a massive lawsuit and it will be shut down. And that will be an incredibly sad day because it is currently also a source of useful public domain footage like the Prelinger Archives. Without the Internet Archive, we will not have a non-commercial archive of public domain footage.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That was youtube, before it was sold.
There will never be another one again. Storage, Bandwidth, Server, etc etc costs would be too astronomical for anyone but another multi-billion dollar company to spin up a competitor.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Floatplane is more of a pattern competitor than YouTube.
31337@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Not much server storage and bandwidth is needed if using p2p, like peertube.
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I wonder if they are doing something worse and just overshadowing it with this weird change. Like we are using your data for training AI with no opt out BUT look at this random color picker! Don’t mind the first part, LOOK! COLORS!
Thann@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The recommendation algo is so bad they are testing it against a random bullshit generator…
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve recently started getting the most random, low-view localised content from small channels even though I never watch anything in my native language or any content like what they are producing.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My friend says the same thing. I would welcome the change honestly, Ive watched these videos already, Youtube, I will take anything new at this point.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I fucking hate the algorithm.
I can watch 20 fucking hours of content about a subject, and it wont suggest anything similar.
but I accidentally click a link someone posts to a crazy right wing video, I get nothing but right wing violence and brainwashing fear mongering videos for over a week that I can barely break the fuck out of with hyper specific searches.
Which is the same problem facebook has, in that the algorithm favors right wing extremism and shoves people heavily down that path, and only through very significant and concerted effort can you break out of it.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 2 months ago
Sometimes it keeps recommending me the same videos even if have no intention of ever watching them.
pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
They should do it on texture instead.
- Your red velvet cake is missing this one ingredient.
- Ten Seinfeld quotes about wearing velvet.
- Your mind will be blown by this analysis of “Blue Velvet”
- All the Easter eggs in Velvet Underground album covers
- The terrible origin of the phrase, ‘iron fist in velvet glove’
All with thumbnails of the narrator with a shocked face & an illustrated arrow pointing at something vague
SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Color is so stupid. Who the fuck cares what color the video is. Couldve used this to actual good like pick three minor subjects from the video and ask me if im interested in those. That would be awesome. And I know they have that data.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Even easier, pick video lengths.
<1min, 1-10min, 10-30min, 30-60min, 60min+.
I’d use that all the time.
Madrigal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They used to have that as a filter. Although for a long while you could pick short (<4 mins) or long (>20 mins) but not medium length videos.
This, too, was a sign they had no fucking idea what they were doing.
CluckN@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Black History Month
Separating videos based off of color.
Never change Google.
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 2 months ago
This reminds of how Xiaomi introduced sorting by colours of the app icon in their launcher. But that was different and I believe actually helped getting around
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I have sorted the icons on my quicklaunch bar (on my desktop PC) by color. Those typically aren’t sorted in any particular order so putting them by color was something visually interesting to do. Their titles aren’t displayed here, it’s just the icons, and there’s 12 of them, so actually it does help guide my eye, if I know I’m looking for, the Blender logo my eye tends toward orange.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
At least that would make for an aesthetically pleasing gradient for some people. Sorting videos by color makes no goddamn sense. I’m not in an orange sort of mood lmao
nl4real@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If YT wants to do aesthetic stuff, why not bring back custom channel backgrounds? Or better yet, add more site-wide themes like dark mode.