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New youtube layout? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hey, I was browsing youtube in private mode, and out of nowhere it started looking like this, I really hope this doesn't go through lolol...

(the black square bottom right is probably an ad being blocked.

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[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've been getting very close to ditching YouTube. This change showed up a few weeks ago for me and pushed me a bit further.

If they succeed in inserting ads into the video stream I'll bail alltogether. I can fit a subscription to Brilliant, Dropout, and several creator Patreons into the cost of a YouTube Red subscription, and I won't have to deal with these attention-optimizing UI changes.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm also very close in ditching all Google products. Including search.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i haven't used their search in ages. ddg is good enough and doesn't flood you with ads instead of actual results. still not as good as Google used to be once upon a time, but I'll take 80-90% quality over the garbage that is Google search.

but I'm also considering switching to kagi

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo is a meta-search engine and is mainly depended on results from Bing and Yahoo! actually.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

i know. what i said stands.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 months ago

In fact, not that long ago Bing was down, causing ddg also being unavailable, so that says enough.

[–] Orfeluh@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can use some of the alternatives like Piped in web browser or desktop app called FreeTube

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 months ago

That is true, but not solving the problem with other searches like the normal web search.