• Another Person @lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    TL;DR YouTube is testing out a new feature for YouTube Premium members. The feature is designed to help users avoid accidental taps. The feature is only available for Android and iOS.

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    1 year ago

    There are open source, free YouTube clients such as LibreTube that already had this feature. Still don’t understand why people still buy premium when alternatives exist, that are much better.

  • NightOwl@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    What feature I’d like to see added to YouTube premium is having built in sponsorblock of their own so that categories like sponsored segment or interaction requests can be automatically skipped over. Or even dislike visibility.

    Until then lack of ads is not enough of a selling point for me when third party apps have what I now consider an essential feature.

    Edit: I would also like the ability to create groups back. Once that disappeared I ended unsubscribing from a lot of channels that put out too much content that it flooded my feed and hurt visibility of smaller channels I wanted to see videos from.

    NewPipe and Freetube on the other hand lets me create groups, so I can have a category to just see my cooking channels I follow and a separate one for hobby channels.

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      1 year ago

      Integrating sponsorblock officially would piss off both sponsors and the creators who would now get less money because sponsors aren’t willing to pay as much for ad spots that don’t reach everyone

    • Zaphodquixote@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Being real? Sponsor ads in video are fine by me. It’s no different than tv and radio did for ages. The individual vidiots hawking whoever sponsers them just isn’t an issue. It’s as easy the tune out as radio spots used to be.

      If YouTube’s direct ads weren’t fucking obnoxious, I wouldn’t even object to those, but they crossed into obnoxious a decade ago with those.

      It’s the freaking combined wall of ads that happens when it’s all together that is infuriating. You’ve got ads before a video, during, it, after it, splashed new below and beside it. It’s just crap, and gods forbid you misclick and go back, it starts all over again.

  • Erich@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What I really want is a way to delete all saved videos from watch later. Instead of having to delete them one by one.