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Did it work?
This is the Red filtering:
That seems not at all helpful in any way I can think of. Even high I cannot imagine a scenario where I would say ’ I am only watching Teal’.
Those nature videos as backgrounds in a room with a strong color scheme?
Except I wouldn’t even sort of trust them not to veer into some jackass ranting about something stupid.
Colorblind people be like: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/027/424/joke.jpg
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!
Sounds like a new and inventive way for them to push sponsored content on you but make it seem like you had some choice in the matter
You’ve searched for Red! Here are some funny, relaxing and interesting videos from Coca-Cola, Adobe and Target!
Please drink verification can.
I’m sure they’ll also share their information with “content creators” so they can all start using the most popular colors and the site can become even more generic and samey
@LinkOpensChest_wav That is actually why. I’ve heard creators talk about how YouTube is rolling this new feature now, it gives you the options to add different thumbnails with different colors to target different audience, and see which one performs the best.
Gods help us all.
I wish there were an add-on to hide all monetized channels from my feed.
@LinkOpensChest_wav I recommend to use De-Arrow is from the same creator of sponsorblock if you want to change the thumbnails and titles, it is crowdsourced.
No channel is monetized if you are using an AdBlock. Hahahaha
With all the absurd turns YouTube and Google have taken, I’ve been looking at this for five minutes trying to figure out if this is a shitpost
Unfortunately it is not…
It is not, there are actual colour categories at the top of the page which allow you to filter by thumbnails. This is what the Red page looks like for me:
I’m really disappointed, was expecting all red videos to be those cringey red arrows pointing at irrelevant things.
Does that come with app update? I still have normal categories up there:
Google AB tests every tiny detail so you might not see it.
I have 19.03.35 Revanced; may be a regional trial?
I have the official unmodded YouTube app v. 18.46.41.
Anyway, it would probably show up since it’s not a client-side thing. Could be a regional thing. Or just random testing.
Why do you have the official app? I can never go back to normal youtube with all the in your face ads. Soon I’ll stop using pixel phones if Google doesn’t stop forcing me to buy google drive/photos subscription.
I saw it yesterday and thought I had brain damage for a minute.
I don’t have the official app, so I choose to pretend this is a shitpost.
Haha A++ shitpost
In my defence I use Revanced and not Newpipe only because I like to have my subscriptions and watchlist synced up between devices
Understandable
Nope, I’ve seen it myself. Cannot imagine a more useless feature.
Cannot imagine a more useless feature.
Especially useless for us colorblind people…
Is this yet another “make something new bs feature to get a promotion” at google?
Sees CTC video
Ah, a fellow man of culture I see…
😊 i’m one of the very favourite people
Sounds like you know the secret
🎶That’s 3 in the corner 🎶
🎶That’s 3 in the spotlight losing its religion 🎶
Who asked for this?
But why tho? To know your favorite color now?
My guess is search for toddlers, whose parents handed them a phone to keep busy while they rest or do something else. They’re the only demographic that does not know how to spell, or knows too few words to search effectively. But considering the American education system this could also apply to students who are illiterate despite completing the grade every year.
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.
The search was already so abysmal that this doesn’t change much.
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.
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.
The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.
In YouTube Music, when you’re building a tuner to create a station, you can’t search at all. Instead, you get an endless scroll off bands and have to find the one you want that way. The order is random.
Like … Pandora let you do the same thing with search back in the 00’s
The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.
It’s not boggling; it’s very simple: they discovered that having shitty search apparently makes them more money than having good search.
Bingo!
Don’tBe Evil.It was obvious they would enshittify, they literally told us they would.
I feel like maybe the term “search” when applied to digital services should be regulated. What Google et al do isn’t search, it’s recommendations. Recommendations can be useful, but they sure as hell don’t replace search. Someone call the EU.
if they won’t regulate what ‘news’ or ‘organic’ or ‘private’ means then good luck with ‘search’. waiting for the government to get wise and save us, still?
“Organic” is absolutely a regulated term in the US, not sure about elsewhere. You might be thinking of “natural.”
Which “the government”?
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.
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.
Ralph from the Simpsons is the best analogy for how I see Google now. Brilliant.
Stop being so chartreuse! Would it kill you to be a little more periwinkle?
You made me search the internet to rid me of my confusion! I’m all vermilion now!
💰
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.
What the fuck was in that URL to make part of it get removed?
weird, it was just what the image says. edited.
It’s the first bit of the URL that’s removed
(https://removed/TWT49Rm/zero.jpg) is what it says
huh. it’s img bb dot com, weird that they remove it.
I don’t mind them providing it as a feature because maybe someone has a use case here but I have a problem with them promoting it. Such a niche idea.
“I hate when services actually tell people about new features they’re offering”
Pushing people to use it (no I’m not going to buy youtube TV or whatever its called, stop asking youtube) is one thing, but simply proffered the option is relatively benign.
They’re pushing it to everyone’s feed, it’s basically advertising. They could “tell people about new features” via press release they don’t need to do this.
How many non-techie people do you know that read press releases of apps?
The exact same number as need to know about color filtering YouTube videos. It’s not a meaningful feature, it’s fine if nobody hears about it except through clicking around or word of mouth.
That’s your subjective opinion
Yeah. You think your disagreement is objective or something?
Seems like an interesting spin on what is basically ’random’. Probably a decent way to get content in front of users that might be outside their normal recommendations.
Is it some essential new feature, no, it’s just a bit of fun to find some new content.
It seems like a feature that should be implemented April 1,and April 1 alone, and is tone-deaf to the actual problems on the platform.
That was my first thought when I saw this “feature” show up the other day. It actually made me laugh.
I was feeling optimistic about it because I’m always wanting some way to get more diversity into my recommendations. I was disappointed when it mostly presented the same videos I’d been seeing in my recommendations anyway, just only those with a particular color in the thumbnail.
Mate, just make sure you’re not getting into trouble with all that positive thinking, ok? Take care.
I have questions
So this is the pattern of the typical youtube consumer, mindless browsing?
Unironically, yes it is.
