• @Plopp@lemmy.world
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    31710 months ago

    So, instead of getting the ability to search for videos properly, with negative search terms, user defined video length spans, exact dates, sort by reverse date order etc… we get ambient mode and color search? Can someone please, for the sake of humanity and my sanity, erase this company and its parent from the planet.

    • @asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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      16510 months ago

      Seriously, there was a time when Google was lauded for all kinds of awesome innovation, and joked about that you needed a PhD to even be a janitor there.

      Look at them now. They can’t even do basic search functionality anymore, and are so misguided that they put out color filters for video.

      I 100% agree they need to just stop existing at this point.

      • @vexikron@lemmy.zip
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        2310 months ago

        Arent there like Ralph from the Simpsons originating jokes about how like, this crayon tastes like yellow?

        Congrats YouTube, thank you so much.

        I can now enjoy green flavored content, fuck having a working suggestion algorithm that actually recommends interesting content, I guess I can use YouTube for what it seems to be intended for these days, as an ambient noise and color generator for my monitor and room while i actually do something else.

      • @Plopp@lemmy.world
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        810 months ago

        You made me search the internet to rid me of my confusion! I’m all vermilion now!

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      1010 months ago

      I absolutely hate the ambient mode. I mean, I get it, it’s kind of my problem if I am trying to use ancient desktop, but it’s also pretty unnecessary.

      Trying to view YouTube videos on many school computers became a pain in the ass. Some are so laggy that I can’t even get to disable the ambient mode without which it would still be somewhat usable. (But hey, piped.video works.)
      Hell, even my HP 255 G7 (a fairly average office laptop with Ryzen 3 3200U) struggles with it. It gets laggy and turns into hairdryer.

      Secondly, it’s distracting.

    • Justas🇱🇹
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      910 months ago

      Yes it’s super weird that porn sites had that functionality for over a decade and one of the world’s largest tech companies still can’t implement those.

    • @fidodo@lemmy.world
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      210 months ago

      This sounds like they made a cheap feature from data they already had, but didn’t stop to think why anyone would ever want it.