hey guys its riley from the video just going through the haul of sub-$20 trinkets i bought from sketchy online retailers that are going to break about 5 minutes after i open them. it's kinda fun but i wish i just went to jawa.link/TLNov24 and checked out the amazing deals available at Jawa. "They are THE marketplace for buying and selling PC components and full assembled rigs. It’s a great time to upgrade, so why not save some money too!" that was in quotes because someone else just said that but i agree with them
Yes! I hate it! I use Android. When I try to slide down to watch my notifications on the drop-down menu, it instead swipes to previous video. When I swipe back, the video I was watching starts ALL OVER and I gotta drag search where I left off. Now I gotta be super careful in lowering the drop-down menu.
When you accidently swipe the video you're watching away, and then swipe back, it goes back to the beginning of the video, losing your place where you were watching. I think the idea is to instill frustration to the point where you throw your phone at the wall and you have to buy a new Google pixel or something. I hate you RUclips, go work on other Google products that you abandoned instead of this bs.
It's to shove more ads in your face. Swiping to a new video has a good chance to play an ad and then swiping back to your original vid does as well meaning this simple mistake has the chance of playing 2 rounds of ads. It is to make the ad experience on RUclips even more insufferable to get you to buy RUclips Premium.
The RUclips mobile app sucks. I have to pay a premium to use features that are built into the operating system, I have no way of hiding features I don’t want to use (like shorts), and every once in a while they screw the functionality for no reason at all… and I have no say in the matter.
People don't realise just how insanely difficult and expensive it is to run a video streaming service for billions of people, especially one that allows anyone to freely upload videos. Only another huge company could potentially compete with RUclips and no one wants to take that risk right now
Just cancelled my RUclips Premium. A lot of recent changes that have made it clear RUclips wants to alienate its existing user base, so guess what? Consider me alienated.
I finally went to Revanced (Android only) because of all the frustrating broken feature nonsense. I still kept Premium status however because I'm nice I guess? LOL
I really don't get how you people are seeing so many ads. I only ever get 1 ad per 30m video and it's like a a 20% chance when I click onto the video. Except in rare cases where it is 1 every 15m. I also have the player in player feature. Even though I've never paid for premium in my life. The only issues I personally have are the stupid interface changes they made recently.
@@LycanFerret Here I get about 3 ads before each video, then two unskippable ads every 5 minutes. If you're speaking truth then conratulations, you're a special child.
@@shapelessed you do realise that those 'two unskippable ads every 5 minutes' you get are placed by the youtubers you are watching. Maybe try watching some less money hungry youtubers
@@jellytwins1018 You do realise RUclips took that away and started doing it on their own? It's not some channels. It's *all* channels, including LTT's.
youtube (and google) are directly enabling scammers. A good portion of ads are scams, youtube gets money from them, and does little to nothing to curb it. when youtube stops supporting scammers, I might stop blocking ads.
@dftfire It's not an errors since they sent an email to an user asking about this, and they said that ads that YT seems "important" or ads about their own products, will be shown. :))
@@CrashBashL at that point you are better off paying for adblockers than youtube premium. like tbh if adblock is the only premium feature you use then its not worth the price there are other youtube premium features but if you don't use them then adblock is fine (This is coming from a person whos youtube subscription cancelled last month because youtube devicded to increase its price and my autopay shut off)
Ok I'm a heavy android RUclips user and I've been wondering WTF is up with videos pausing unless my phone is rotated now. Is it because of this stupid experiment???
Probably a side effect bug because i got different play and pause behavior. Sometimes i need to be in landscape to play a paused video. Sometimes i need to get back to the previous page so the pip player appears to start the video again. The update is super buggy
@@Jonlyjooh thank goodness I wasn't the only one having these problems. I was having both peoples problems although it seemed to fix itself. I can pause and resume normally. At least most of the time.
The swipe is so idiotic. I just want to check the time and boom I started a totally unrelevant video. I quickly swipe back, but my 4 hour long documentary restarted and I have no idea where I was
I might just start using the mobile browser version because, at this point, having fewer features and an ad blocker would be better than whatever RUclips thinks is a feature.
I'm using youtube in mobile Firefox for years now. Would highly recommend, especially than I can open few videos in different tabs from my subs feed and check them later. And - no ads. Obviously.
Agreed, an ad-blocker (such as the free AdGuard app for Android...), & the RUclips web interface, are the superior way to access RUclips without undue risk & annoyances
@@igorthelight Developer here - They have plenty of work fixing platform and hardware specific bugs, especially considering there are about a thousand android phones released each year and everything seems to work rather well on them all. You know who gets to decide on "the features"? - Executives.
@@shapelessedI was just going to say the same. Developers, especially in a FANG, have very little say in the enshitification of the products they work on.
@@Q-nr2dgQuite simply, people don't know what they want. And to an extent that's true, but it's hard to tell if the guy who said it actually cares, or if they were just trying to piss people off. Even trends aren't helpful for predicting what people want. I never heard a single person hate on vine, but everybody hates TikTok, even though it's literally just vine.
I remember when we’d make fun of boomers who didn’t know how to record video and would hold their phones vertically Now I see most people doing that. Soon we’ll evolve our eyeballs to be stack on top of each other.
A few videos that I've uploaded have gotten automatically converted into shorts for whatever reason despite being in 4:3. I know it will convert vertical and even square but why a horizontal one???
@@codycast Do you mean vertical? Because horizontal is kind of the default/traditional video/screen format. One may argue about the use(s) of either and whether the proliferation of devices with dynamic vertical/horizontal viewing options means videos will be more like static visual art(s) where the format you use is part of what you consider when figuring out your composition... but most people making various videos probably are not the "consider composition and its impact on your viewers when combined with different screen aspect ratios and rotations" type. (Not none but in terms of percentage.)
What they want is for you to accidentally swipe to the next video, so they play adds on that and also when you swipe back to the video you were watching
when i put my TV on standy while youtube is open and later turn my TV on the first thing i see is ads even if the video was already done playing. They really are trying to squeeze out ad space no matter how annoying they are.
Have you ever tried watching CBS Sunday Morning, via its official streaming UI? It will cut to commercials (which plays flawlessly even if no _new_ ads have loaded), then tries to load the next segment, fails (despite no outages on your end), plays another set of ads, & loads _the opening segment again..._ So, you fast-forward to the segment you were about to watch, & ... it plays another set of ads. If you're really lucky, it _might_ load that next segment afterward. My Dad has fiber service. We tried to stream CBS Sunday Morning starting at about 11am, & despite our skipping ahead again whenever it would start over, the show didn't finish until after 4pm. That's more than twice as much ad time, as show!? Atrocious. Total waste of time, & I get the distinct impression that's the idea.
Shorts should have been a separate app from the beginning, it cluttters up the interface even more than before and there’s no way to avoid them, i like to scroll them but don’t want them in my regular home, subs or history
If you click the 3 little dots on every short and click not interested for a day or so, RUclips won’t put any in your feed for about a month. Just do it again when you start seeing the shorts in your feed again
You can patch apps on Android phones. Luckily, smart people have already paved the way to easily disable anything related to shorts. And keep your gesture control.
I literally avoid Twitch because its UI is so bad. I watch VODs of streamers who post their VODs on a RUclips channel. I don't like how the Twitch VODs section has a giant auto-play video on top, and the scroll bars are thin or invisible. (I'm talking about their web UI.)
Nice to hear they're working to make the youtube app worse, just like the desktop version which seems quite glitchy lately. Also lovely of them to add features no one asked for. Why add in chat tagging or searching within channels to the app when you can find a way to make doom scrolling easier?
The desktop one seems fine to me The app is awful thesedays... new miniplayer goes off screen... videos randomly won't start or unpause... comment replies never load... bot comments often promoted as the top comment
The desktop web interface is getting _really_ memory hungry, _even aside from videos that are being played..._ I find myself replacing "/watch?v=" with "/embed/" whenever possible, lately. Soooo much faster / smoother / less bloated!
@prophetzarquon1922 I often use unhooked an too remove the extra UI, which causes it to not load that removed UI which saved a ton of memory, and ublock origin
Isn't it mostly a web app (on Android). Meaning they don't have to update the app to change things... They can just adjust their frontend code and the app will load the updated like a browser would with a website...
@@porcorosso4330not exactly, it has server controlled GUI but it doesn't run on normal web technologies, that's why I use revanced in addition to not updating
Here in Australia. We get Premium, WITH adds! Also longer add brakes. (25mins unskipable, 5 sec to skip then upto 45mins if left) We get adds for skipping forward or backwards on a video. We get adds on the tick-tock like low res videos. (That are 4k and wrong aspect ratios for phones up n down) Since latest 'small sample size test' it's been around 1/3rd video, 2/3rd advertising. Also new 'rollover' adds, that have rounded borders, floating on-top of video, and over captions. (Lags low powdered computers/google TVs etc) There is of course a extra premium premium membership. Which costs around 55-100 packs of 2min noodles/ramen a month. Although that still gets full screen advertising on loading...
This is the reason I recommend watching RUclips on a browser instead, than use their app. Also add plug-ins to the mix and boom 10/10 not going back again.
The swiping thing makes using RUclips on Android absolutely frustrating. What makes it even worse is that whenever you accidentally swipe to a different video, returning to the original doesn't restart where you left and instead starts from the beginning
Have you ever wanted to full screen the current video, but ended up hitting the navigation bar and jumping to 3 seconds before the end of the video? Yeah, swiping gesture would have prevented that, while also feeling very satisfying to do. By the way, on Android you can just install previous versions of an app and disable updates. It will probably work fine for another year or so.
Speaking of RUclips, I've been running into a strange/annoying thing lately; it plays the 2 ads (Usually unskippable, of course), and then proceeds to load up 2 more ads and play them. The MFers sneaks in 2 times the ads sometimes. I swear, YT is getting as bad as, or worse than, oldfashioned Cable TV.
the AdGuard browser extension is free, hassle-free, & _works._ Even the FBI said to just pick one! Using the web without an ad-blocker is _"making it worse",_ *for everyone.* Stop it. Get an ad-blocker.
Just as dumb as what was happening to me on my phone. The shrink window button in the corner was purposely covered by the video playing soon tab .... Meaning that if you have it in full view and want to leave... Too bad. Watch the ad first peasant. Ive been dealing with this for most videos i click on. Not a glitch either as there are 3 devices that do the same thing. Just another case for ad block. Im tempted now more than ever
"Look boss, we've screwed this feature up this week..." Not usually the way to a bonus, but guess it must work at RUclips as they can't seem to stop ruining the app 😢
@@dftfireIt'll be more like "Look boss, 250 million users engaged with this new feature in the first week", they not get into the specifics as to whether they meant to, toxic leadership is about re-framing things to hide your mistakes and even profit off them at the cost of the greater good.
@@Trinode It's the same reason features now have "maybe later" rather than "no thanks" so they can say "40 million users said they might consider subscribing later", purely because they no longer offer a "no" option
Is that why my youtube app has gone crazy the past few days? If I swipe up I indeed get a new video. However if I try and just go to a certain point in a video it stops and I have to minimize to restart the video. Sometimes when I minimize the video disappears altogether.
I got cancer just by hearing YT is even thinking about swiping for long form videos. Who do I sue? Riley who told me the news or YT the subject of the news segment?
Get uploaders like these, to cross-post their videos to less usurious sites that could use (please FFS) more quality content. PeerTube is just one example, of a perfectly good platform with basically _no_ worthwhile content getting posted to it. If you post it, views will come.
I can answer: if they wouldn't brake something, then fix it - they would just be fired ;-) That's a very common problem for any big company: people that are just doing something too look useful.
The floating window update is horrible enough already. Using yt through the simplified browser version is actually so much more enjoyable now with all the junk cluttering the app.
Whats amazing for the youtube scrolling is if you swipe down to check the time or battery level it swipes to the next video instead. So 2-3 times a day i have to uninstall the current update just to use the app. Great update youtube
I've been using the swipe up and down for fullscreen/minimize all the time and they're testing the change with me. I hate, hate, *hate* it. I've also hated the skip forward and back buttons that are basically Auto play because it makes it way too easy to accidentally jump to a new video I didn't want to watch when what I actually was trying to do was double-tap to skip time within the video I'm watching right now. Just need to reiterate that I *do not like this at all and it's horrible*
7:25 can’t wait for a 404media article to reveal that Amazon’s using Claude’s computer control API to buy stuff from Temu and then repackage it to customer’s homes
RUclips Support on X when someone has an issue, such as a channel hack... 💀💀💀 RUclips Support when someone says they've been unable to complete a payment to get Premium: 🏃🏻♂️💨 "Hi, can you DM us immediately please"
RUclips dumb? I have a copyright strike for using a song in the shorts app, that was there to use. Or why else was the song in there.... YT wants me to take a class to learn copyright......
4:04 so it's outside US federal government, so probably not scrutinizable by existing information disclosure laws and not accountable in the same fashion as other US federal departments, but can also exercise influence and control over US government to the extent that it can direct spending something that's the job of the legislature. This sounds like an awfully convenient way to indulge in corruption and make policies personally favourable to oneself at the expense of others.
Either that or its simply an inspection department that tracks government spending and reports on it to the public so Americans know they're not getting scammed... but that would be too good to be true lmfao
@@Nabee_H ah yes, it exists conveniently outside of the chain of accountability and is being run by two guys already famous for their shady business practices and self-dealing, but no it's totally gonna be great for the American public
I may not use Spotify, but to be fair, the best way to surpass RUclips is to start out as something else first, and slowly become what RUclips was intended to be. So they're doing it right. I've seen tons of alternatives fall, because they never got noticed. Spotify is widely known.
As someone who has the new swipe controls on my android YT app, they're the worse. BUT! if you go into the Android settings for the YT app, then Storage, if you "clear app data" it will remove the feature. granted it will also clear any downloaded videos you have. but you won't be logged out and you remove the annoying new feature (until tomorrow). but it's one way to remove the horrible new change so you can watch videos normally and don't restart the video you are watching when you swipe down because you want to check the notification you just got.....
Yeah, I did that, it works well. I left a negative review with them in hopes that maybe it'll help them make this more of a togglable feature instead... Doubt it'll work, but I did try!
Perfectly timed considering they just rolled back the extremely buggy new miniplayer which had a tendency to put the minimized video off-screen just because. God, I've never used Newpipe as much as last month.
Odd... I've literally just had an update to the RUclips app yesterday and yet I still have the buggy new miniplayer going off-screen to the right and videos not unpausing except when in full-screen Are you on iPhone perhaps? 🤔
youtube is currently on some dumbass bend to add features that gets in the way for what youtube really is .. i hate all those new scroll and swipe features. they are the dumbest thing ive ever seen happen to this app, i was a master of knowing where in the video i was if i wanted to re-watch a specific part, but no longer does it matter where to point at the time line.. cause its not really there any more.. its just a swipe to scroll video feature now .. i cant beleieve they've seriously removed it .. i have to do so much more now to get any where and when ever you RELEASE the search it ofc sticks to chapters, chapters are also being forced onto your videos and every time you have to deselect it in the settings for the video when you upload videos.. its so annoying having to setup the same settings each and every single time when you upload videos. youtube is going downhill again, remember how they did that years ago? update after update messed the site up and changed everything, untill it finally came back around ..well..get ready for round two, cause someone at youtube needs to fix something that isnt broken to seem important and get payed .. like those damn politicians making new regulations and laws instead ofjust adapting the ones we already have to fit modern times ..
Don't forget the youtube search not working at all, some videos can't be found even if you type in word for word the damn video title, and after the first two results, the videos that are shown are completely unrelated.
Unfortunately no, you have not gone insane. The world *has Definitely* gone to shit. Feels like we're getting closer and closer to the Fallout timeline. Not good.
I already went insane, now I'm taking people with me. Fuck me running: oh the snap is just in a movie surely we can't fuck shit up more than we did before. Oh surely we got the braindamaged levels of stupidity out of out of our system. Wow I was so hilariously wrong.
I had that for 3 days and it was absolutely horrific. Couldn't watch RUclips bc I would always swap to a next video and when I went back to the video I was watching, the progress wasn't saved. And I always had autoplay off and still have, but bc of that "experiment " a random video would always start after the video I was watching ended.
OpenAI has blocked the actually useful GPT behind pay wall. The problem though, is that their product isn’t yet indispensable, so why should anyone pay for it. They could have so much more data, if they increased their user base. I think they rushed too quickly to monetize it. The general population isn’t going to bother paying for something they don’t know they need.
Yep. People try the free version, see it making stupid mistakes and making shit up and they'll assume the premium version will also have the same problems.
Swiping changes have manifested a bug for me, if i swipe in any direction the current video still keeps playing but is moved to right, outside of the screen and if i somehow manage to bring it back and pause it, it will not start playing again.
RUclips: You know what they say, "if it ain't broke, fuck it up". Literally everyone: Please. Please stop making your platform the worst it can possibly be...
Regarding RUclips premium, I'm only going to put up with a certain bit more of price increases, after which I will just use RUclips on my phone through Firefox with Ublock Origin and the same on my pc connected to my TV. They can *&%@ right off if the price goes much higher.
The department of government efficiency is one thing. But calling it doge is putrid. I didnt even realize the first 5 times i heard it because my brain refused to acknowledge such a thing.
I wish I could explain the stupidity of the things going on to my family but they are too old to fully understand how stupid these decisions really are
I've decided I absolutely hate hearing about politics after this past election, and while I love these videos, I stopped it the moment that segment started.
hey guys its riley from the video just going through the haul of sub-$20 trinkets i bought from sketchy online retailers that are going to break about 5 minutes after i open them. it's kinda fun but i wish i just went to jawa.link/TLNov24 and checked out the amazing deals available at Jawa. "They are THE marketplace for buying and selling PC components and full assembled rigs. It’s a great time to upgrade, so why not save some money too!" that was in quotes because someone else just said that but i agree with them
hi riley
Do more Linux stuff!
Thanks Riley very cool
hey @techlinked, normal person here. Time to quit X and use ActivityPub already
fake
dude the swiping thing can go to hell.
Revanced(EXT) will fix this in the future :D
Yes! I hate it! I use Android.
When I try to slide down to watch my notifications on the drop-down menu, it instead swipes to previous video. When I swipe back, the video I was watching starts ALL OVER and I gotta drag search where I left off. Now I gotta be super careful in lowering the drop-down menu.
Yeah whoever thought of that idea from RUclips HQ can go play in traffic.
@@ItsCarl94marketing 😂
I second the motion
When you accidently swipe the video you're watching away, and then swipe back, it goes back to the beginning of the video, losing your place where you were watching. I think the idea is to instill frustration to the point where you throw your phone at the wall and you have to buy a new Google pixel or something. I hate you RUclips, go work on other Google products that you abandoned instead of this bs.
if you start wathcing the vid it stays in your watch history
@@PhillipLemmon but the time stamp at which you swiped away isnt kept, hence the frustration
I genuinely thought it was a bug on the app... I'm ashamed now that I pay premium for this crap
Just go and watch z-pain new song. Itll calm you... Maybe 😂😵
It's to shove more ads in your face. Swiping to a new video has a good chance to play an ad and then swiping back to your original vid does as well meaning this simple mistake has the chance of playing 2 rounds of ads. It is to make the ad experience on RUclips even more insufferable to get you to buy RUclips Premium.
Product managers at Google just cannot leave things as they are. Always gotta make things worse for the user to justify their jobs
They think they are the master of rebranding same iterative improvements on existing product in brand new wrappers
Exactly. Career driven development.
YT is gonna add another messaging option any day now 😒
Like removing tap to seek
I don’t think it’s that, I think more …. How do we generate more money.
What has youtube done in the last few years that wasn't just dumb?
Thw hype feature
also google search. both it just dumb pre pandemic. now bcome dumber
It's the most frustrating fucking app on the planet.
@@jackdarrow3011 wtf did you just say
exist?
The RUclips mobile app sucks. I have to pay a premium to use features that are built into the operating system, I have no way of hiding features I don’t want to use (like shorts), and every once in a while they screw the functionality for no reason at all… and I have no say in the matter.
I never use it, I just watch RUclips in the browser.
Shorts can be hidden with Revanced, which is Android only, and it blocks ads so paying for premium isn't necessary. iOS has similar options.
@@Jon717what app for ios ?
@@XenoxRaider YTLitePlus appears to be the next big project.
If you have android you can get revanced there's a tutorial on how to install it on it's subreddit
you "can't have any nice features anymore cause we have a huge monopoly" tube
😂😂
RUclips seriously needs a competitor
I checked out Rumble again and it's improving a lot
+1 Rumble
Youku ;p
People don't realise just how insanely difficult and expensive it is to run a video streaming service for billions of people, especially one that allows anyone to freely upload videos. Only another huge company could potentially compete with RUclips and no one wants to take that risk right now
This whole platform operates as a money pit. No one wants to go into the game because it is a losing one
RUclips making another dumb decision? What next, grass is green?
breaking: grass is yellowing
It's a day ending in a 'y'
Just cancelled my RUclips Premium. A lot of recent changes that have made it clear RUclips wants to alienate its existing user base, so guess what? Consider me alienated.
I finally went to Revanced (Android only) because of all the frustrating broken feature nonsense. I still kept Premium status however because I'm nice I guess? LOL
You should donate that money to alt-frontends instead! Open Source for the win.
Firefox and Ublock. All the RUclips, none of the BS. (Minus background play 3rd party apps can pick that up)
Brave browser has background play
@@pacifico4999 Brave is to be considered too then, unsure if firefox has a background play option.
RUclips is so add-ridden that it is borderline unusable without both Premium and ad-blockers. And even then there's sponsored content in the videos.
I really don't get how you people are seeing so many ads. I only ever get 1 ad per 30m video and it's like a a 20% chance when I click onto the video.
Except in rare cases where it is 1 every 15m.
I also have the player in player feature. Even though I've never paid for premium in my life.
The only issues I personally have are the stupid interface changes they made recently.
@@LycanFerret Here I get about 3 ads before each video, then two unskippable ads every 5 minutes.
If you're speaking truth then conratulations, you're a special child.
@@shapelessed you do realise that those 'two unskippable ads every 5 minutes' you get are placed by the youtubers you are watching.
Maybe try watching some less money hungry youtubers
@@jellytwins1018 You do realise RUclips took that away and started doing it on their own? It's not some channels. It's *all* channels, including LTT's.
Use a vpn. I vpn Albania, they have literally 0 RUclips ads
YOU CAN SWIPE UP FOR FULLSCREEN??? How did I not know this. I've been swiping down but never thought to swipe up.
This has actually been a pretty recent change
Considering they for some reason added a random delay on the full screen button, I'm glad to now know of this gesture lol
@@Lord_ResetI wouldn't call May 2020 quite recent
yeah it’s been the best thing about the app for years. you COULD even do it in the small player but not anymore not for me at least
@@Lord_Reset I think I've been doing it for the last three years or so.
And RUclips wonder why we block ads 🤣🤷♂️
youtube (and google) are directly enabling scammers. A good portion of ads are scams, youtube gets money from them, and does little to nothing to curb it. when youtube stops supporting scammers, I might stop blocking ads.
They don't, they just don't care.
RUclips started to show ADs on "NO ADs" premium subscriptions also. :)
They've said on X this is apparently in error
I'm sure... 🙃
@dftfire It's not an errors since they sent an email to an user asking about this, and they said that ads that YT seems "important" or ads about their own products, will be shown. :))
@@CrashBashL at that point you are better off paying for adblockers than youtube premium. like tbh
if adblock is the only premium feature you use then its not worth the price
there are other youtube premium features but if you don't use them then adblock is fine
(This is coming from a person whos youtube subscription cancelled last month because youtube devicded to increase its price and my autopay shut off)
its ''select ads''
Ok I'm a heavy android RUclips user and I've been wondering WTF is up with videos pausing unless my phone is rotated now. Is it because of this stupid experiment???
Probably a side effect bug because i got different play and pause behavior. Sometimes i need to be in landscape to play a paused video. Sometimes i need to get back to the previous page so the pip player appears to start the video again. The update is super buggy
@@Jonlyjooh thank goodness I wasn't the only one having these problems. I was having both peoples problems although it seemed to fix itself. I can pause and resume normally. At least most of the time.
When i minimize a video it goes off screen lmao
@@Jonlyjo one trick i found is swiping up the seek/watch bar and press the play button there
@@Abrifq bro i legit thought it was my phone's problem.. lmao.. thank god i am not the only one 😭😭
The swipe is so idiotic. I just want to check the time and boom I started a totally unrelevant video. I quickly swipe back, but my 4 hour long documentary restarted and I have no idea where I was
I might just start using the mobile browser version because, at this point, having fewer features and an ad blocker would be better than whatever RUclips thinks is a feature.
I'm using youtube in mobile Firefox for years now. Would highly recommend, especially than I can open few videos in different tabs from my subs feed and check them later. And - no ads. Obviously.
I now use Brave as my mobile RUclips app.
or just revanced
Agreed, an ad-blocker (such as the free AdGuard app for Android...), & the RUclips web interface, are the superior way to access RUclips without undue risk & annoyances
Yt revanced
Honestly, I have RUclips on my tv and it feels like i see more ads than videos
RUclips developers need to change things to justify their jobs. Can't leave a good thing alone.
100% agree!
@@igorthelight Developer here - They have plenty of work fixing platform and hardware specific bugs, especially considering there are about a thousand android phones released each year and everything seems to work rather well on them all.
You know who gets to decide on "the features"? - Executives.
@@shapelessed Fair point tho!
@@shapelessedI was just going to say the same. Developers, especially in a FANG, have very little say in the enshitification of the products they work on.
RUclips hasn't been "good" for a very long time.
0:21 omg thats why it kept messing up the little YT window I have when looking for the next vid to watch!!!!!
Recently my window gets hidden...do you have a solution? Please I'm getting frustrated
RUclips adding features nobody asked nor wanted instead of actually adding the ones ppl want
nobody asked for youtube when youtube first came out yet here we are
@@beetrootlife I'm not sure I underdstand what point you're making. Please elaborate
@@Q-nr2dgQuite simply, people don't know what they want. And to an extent that's true, but it's hard to tell if the guy who said it actually cares, or if they were just trying to piss people off.
Even trends aren't helpful for predicting what people want. I never heard a single person hate on vine, but everybody hates TikTok, even though it's literally just vine.
@@MrGamelover23
"you think that you want it, but you don't"
- diablo devs
Yt has been showing me 30min horizontal vids in vertical "Shorts"...
I remember when we’d make fun of boomers who didn’t know how to record video and would hold their phones vertically
Now I see most people doing that. Soon we’ll evolve our eyeballs to be stack on top of each other.
A few videos that I've uploaded have gotten automatically converted into shorts for whatever reason despite being in 4:3. I know it will convert vertical and even square but why a horizontal one???
@@codycast Do you mean vertical?
Because horizontal is kind of the default/traditional video/screen format.
One may argue about the use(s) of either and whether the proliferation of devices with dynamic vertical/horizontal viewing options means videos will be more like static visual art(s) where the format you use is part of what you consider when figuring out your composition... but most people making various videos probably are not the "consider composition and its impact on your viewers when combined with different screen aspect ratios and rotations" type.
(Not none but in terms of percentage.)
@ sorry, I meant to rag on vertical video
@@fenn_fren i’m curious why you are recording video meant for the TV not made since the early 90s
RUclips keeps making the worst decisions, while not taking care of the bots on their site whatsoever.
It's run by the bots
genuinely. on some channels it's as bad as twitter's bot problem.
Bots? What bots?
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🍑 THEXGAMER8240 FANS WHERE YOU AT?
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me on revanced not noticing anything...
@@mtarek2005 i'm also on revanced. some channels i think are better at cleaning up their comments than others.
@7:00 "Rival online retailers who specialize in cheap garbage" cracked me up
What they want is for you to accidentally swipe to the next video, so they play adds on that and also when you swipe back to the video you were watching
Truth 🙏🏻
when i put my TV on standy while youtube is open and later turn my TV on the first thing i see is ads even if the video was already done playing. They really are trying to squeeze out ad space no matter how annoying they are.
Have you ever tried watching CBS Sunday Morning, via its official streaming UI?
It will cut to commercials (which plays flawlessly even if no _new_ ads have loaded), then tries to load the next segment, fails (despite no outages on your end), plays another set of ads, & loads _the opening segment again..._ So, you fast-forward to the segment you were about to watch, & ... it plays another set of ads. If you're really lucky, it _might_ load that next segment afterward.
My Dad has fiber service. We tried to stream CBS Sunday Morning starting at about 11am, & despite our skipping ahead again whenever it would start over, the show didn't finish until after 4pm. That's more than twice as much ad time, as show!? Atrocious. Total waste of time, & I get the distinct impression that's the idea.
Shorts should have been a separate app from the beginning, it cluttters up the interface even more than before and there’s no way to avoid them, i like to scroll them but don’t want them in my regular home, subs or history
You can remove those on vancd
If you click the 3 little dots on every short and click not interested for a day or so, RUclips won’t put any in your feed for about a month. Just do it again when you start seeing the shorts in your feed again
just block them all
You can patch apps on Android phones. Luckily, smart people have already paved the way to easily disable anything related to shorts. And keep your gesture control.
Oh there is a way... Starts with "re"...
1:04 I find it very funny I got an advertisement break midway through this sentence.
RUclips ReVanced just got even necessarier
using it right now!
Twitch has done this in mobile and it's the most infuriating thing and they somehow didn't walk it back
I literally avoid Twitch because its UI is so bad. I watch VODs of streamers who post their VODs on a RUclips channel.
I don't like how the Twitch VODs section has a giant auto-play video on top, and the scroll bars are thin or invisible. (I'm talking about their web UI.)
Every vaguely similar service trying to copy the UI of a service that was popular mostly for not being their service
I kid you not at 1:12 when Riley said "... the mistaken idea that RUclips is designed for you, the users .." the video cut to TWO sponsored ads.
Nice to hear they're working to make the youtube app worse, just like the desktop version which seems quite glitchy lately. Also lovely of them to add features no one asked for. Why add in chat tagging or searching within channels to the app when you can find a way to make doom scrolling easier?
The desktop one seems fine to me
The app is awful thesedays... new miniplayer goes off screen... videos randomly won't start or unpause... comment replies never load... bot comments often promoted as the top comment
that's why I use revanced
The desktop web interface is getting _really_ memory hungry, _even aside from videos that are being played..._
I find myself replacing "/watch?v=" with "/embed/" whenever possible, lately.
Soooo much faster / smoother / less bloated!
@prophetzarquon1922 I often use unhooked an too remove the extra UI, which causes it to not load that removed UI which saved a ton of memory, and ublock origin
I used to want a time machine so I could go back and win the lottery. Now I want to go back in time just to use RUclips when it was good.
Better yet, why not both? Go back, win the lottery, then buy RUclips before Google did to prevent it from becoming the atrocity that it is today.
I currently have one, I call it the slightly outdated version, modified with revanced and sideloaded
So, before Google bought it, then...
@@joesmith6972 Why not both? Go back in time, win the lottery, and then buy RUclips before Google does.
That's why I not updating RUclips app. ADS and WRONG decisions everywhere.
Isn't it mostly a web app (on Android).
Meaning they don't have to update the app to change things...
They can just adjust their frontend code and the app will load the updated like a browser would with a website...
that's why I love revanced
@@porcorosso4330not exactly, it has server controlled GUI but it doesn't run on normal web technologies, that's why I use revanced in addition to not updating
Here in Australia. We get Premium, WITH adds!
Also longer add brakes. (25mins unskipable, 5 sec to skip then upto 45mins if left)
We get adds for skipping forward or backwards on a video.
We get adds on the tick-tock like low res videos. (That are 4k and wrong aspect ratios for phones up n down)
Since latest 'small sample size test' it's been around 1/3rd video, 2/3rd advertising.
Also new 'rollover' adds, that have rounded borders, floating on-top of video, and over captions. (Lags low powdered computers/google TVs etc)
There is of course a extra premium premium membership. Which costs around 55-100 packs of 2min noodles/ramen a month. Although that still gets full screen advertising on loading...
As long as you dont get subtractions.
@@Carewolf That pun was definitively a negative.
Is that real? Geniunely sounds like those 2000s adware viruses.
*ad, short for advert or advertisement
add, short for addition
Switch to grayjay my guy
This is the reason I recommend watching RUclips on a browser instead, than use their app. Also add plug-ins to the mix and boom 10/10 not going back again.
Paid users / YT premium users actually want less "curated" autoplay recommenations. Yt has no clue what it's high end users needs are
“High end RUclips users” 😂 yea we want 100% pure Colombian videos
High end? Dude you're getting the same amount of videos we plebians got.
>"high end users"
>not using RVX
kek
@@versy187 what's RVX?
The swiping thing makes using RUclips on Android absolutely frustrating.
What makes it even worse is that whenever you accidentally swipe to a different video, returning to the original doesn't restart where you left and instead starts from the beginning
I had no idea what swiping up and down on videos did before this and now I know what I will miss 😭
Have you ever wanted to full screen the current video, but ended up hitting the navigation bar and jumping to 3 seconds before the end of the video?
Yeah, swiping gesture would have prevented that, while also feeling very satisfying to do. By the way, on Android you can just install previous versions of an app and disable updates. It will probably work fine for another year or so.
4:38 Bluesky's selling point is the lack of an algorithm through the use of custom feeds, either made by yourself or by others
RUclips Swipe features are the dumbest thing ever!!🤨🤨
Wow, I got use to swiping up or down on the video to minimize it just in time for RUclips to turn it into something stupid
Speaking of RUclips, I've been running into a strange/annoying thing lately;
it plays the 2 ads (Usually unskippable, of course), and then proceeds to load up 2 more ads and play them.
The MFers sneaks in 2 times the ads sometimes.
I swear, YT is getting as bad as, or worse than, oldfashioned Cable TV.
This only happens to me if I left the video for a while
I find using ublock origin on Firefox is the only way to watch RUclips. The ads on this site are horrible in more ways than one.
the AdGuard browser extension is free, hassle-free, & _works._
Even the FBI said to just pick one!
Using the web without an ad-blocker is _"making it worse",_ *for everyone.*
Stop it. Get an ad-blocker.
Just as dumb as what was happening to me on my phone. The shrink window button in the corner was purposely covered by the video playing soon tab .... Meaning that if you have it in full view and want to leave... Too bad. Watch the ad first peasant. Ive been dealing with this for most videos i click on. Not a glitch either as there are 3 devices that do the same thing. Just another case for ad block. Im tempted now more than ever
RUclips management desperately trying to justify their bonuses...
"Look boss, we've screwed this feature up this week..."
Not usually the way to a bonus, but guess it must work at RUclips as they can't seem to stop ruining the app 😢
@@dftfireIt'll be more like "Look boss, 250 million users engaged with this new feature in the first week", they not get into the specifics as to whether they meant to, toxic leadership is about re-framing things to hide your mistakes and even profit off them at the cost of the greater good.
@@Trinode It's the same reason features now have "maybe later" rather than "no thanks" so they can say "40 million users said they might consider subscribing later", purely because they no longer offer a "no" option
I was today years old when I found out that RUclips has a swipe up for full screen gesture. How was I supposed to figure that out?
To be fair, it's pretty-standard in a lot of video apps to do that.
Just like how double-clicking a video on a PC enters full-screen
Is that why my youtube app has gone crazy the past few days? If I swipe up I indeed get a new video. However if I try and just go to a certain point in a video it stops and I have to minimize to restart the video. Sometimes when I minimize the video disappears altogether.
I got cancer just by hearing YT is even thinking about swiping for long form videos. Who do I sue? Riley who told me the news or YT the subject of the news segment?
Get uploaders like these, to cross-post their videos to less usurious sites that could use (please FFS) more quality content.
PeerTube is just one example, of a perfectly good platform with basically _no_ worthwhile content getting posted to it.
If you post it, views will come.
When your publicly traded company reaches peak growth you have no choice but to abuse your customers.
Hi RUclips.
Every other department only has one head, but the Department of Government *Efficiency* has two?
You can't make this up.
what happened to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"?!
they're not fixing it tho, they fucking broke it
First they break it. Then they fix it.
I can answer: if they wouldn't brake something, then fix it - they would just be fired ;-)
That's a very common problem for any big company: people that are just doing something too look useful.
The floating window update is horrible enough already. Using yt through the simplified browser version is actually so much more enjoyable now with all the junk cluttering the app.
Thank you ReVanced patch devs in advance if this ever gets added
There is another NEW app people can try that was also once just a PIPE dream 😏
Whats amazing for the youtube scrolling is if you swipe down to check the time or battery level it swipes to the next video instead. So 2-3 times a day i have to uninstall the current update just to use the app. Great update youtube
I've been using the swipe up and down for fullscreen/minimize all the time and they're testing the change with me. I hate, hate, *hate* it. I've also hated the skip forward and back buttons that are basically Auto play because it makes it way too easy to accidentally jump to a new video I didn't want to watch when what I actually was trying to do was double-tap to skip time within the video I'm watching right now.
Just need to reiterate that I *do not like this at all and it's horrible*
2:22 ah, so NVIDIA pulled a Microsoft
No, they are copying the AMD Radeon panel.
That swiping experiment was so dumb.. I accidentally swiped through so many videos in the middle of watching them...
I am so down to restart the whole internet over again. Could we just make a totally separate network called internet 2?
I just want full screen scrubbing back I hate that they made it hold for 2x
Thanks Riley. I had no idea you could swipe for full screen 1:20
BRAVE .
No ads.
Any browser with uBlock Origin or AdblockPlus
Also no ads!
7:25 can’t wait for a 404media article to reveal that Amazon’s using Claude’s computer control API to buy stuff from Temu and then repackage it to customer’s homes
1:50 thx for reminding me to update my gfx drivers lol
This RUclips video swiping gets on my nerves and i can't even turn it off. It's just stupid!
And knowing RUclips, OF COURSE they will listen to our feedback
RUclips Support on X when someone has an issue, such as a channel hack...
💀💀💀
RUclips Support when someone says they've been unable to complete a payment to get Premium:
🏃🏻♂️💨
"Hi, can you DM us immediately please"
YT ads are seriously killing me.
Is it just me that didn't know you could swipe up to make the video fullsreen?
Yes, it's just you. Everyone else in the world knew, even Kevin.
Can't wait for RUclips to open the door for a competitor
Switch to Brave for no ads. 👌🏻
The ui changed too, and it's bs. I just can't see what to do anymore.
RUclips dumb? I have a copyright strike for using a song in the shorts app, that was there to use. Or why else was the song in there.... YT wants me to take a class to learn copyright......
Ahh i remember habing the same problem on tiktok i while a go, like why the f**k you show me copyrighted music when i choose background kusic ?
Lol, you think Content ID can actually tell? It has flagged _white_ _noise_ multiple times.
I propose giving youtube shorts its own app so that I wont have to look at it ever
again
4:04 so it's outside US federal government, so probably not scrutinizable by existing information disclosure laws and not accountable in the same fashion as other US federal departments, but can also exercise influence and control over US government to the extent that it can direct spending something that's the job of the legislature. This sounds like an awfully convenient way to indulge in corruption and make policies personally favourable to oneself at the expense of others.
Like they said;
Oligarchism.
Either that or its simply an inspection department that tracks government spending and reports on it to the public so Americans know they're not getting scammed... but that would be too good to be true lmfao
@@Nabee_H ah yes, it exists conveniently outside of the chain of accountability and is being run by two guys already famous for their shady business practices and self-dealing, but no it's totally gonna be great for the American public
@@cartilageheadSo shady that they have not ilegallity investigation whatsoever.
@@The_KeeperOh yeah, reducing government state size, such oligarchy... you looneys.
I may not use Spotify, but to be fair, the best way to surpass RUclips is to start out as something else first, and slowly become what RUclips was intended to be. So they're doing it right. I've seen tons of alternatives fall, because they never got noticed. Spotify is widely known.
As someone who has the new swipe controls on my android YT app, they're the worse. BUT! if you go into the Android settings for the YT app, then Storage, if you "clear app data" it will remove the feature. granted it will also clear any downloaded videos you have. but you won't be logged out and you remove the annoying new feature (until tomorrow). but it's one way to remove the horrible new change so you can watch videos normally and don't restart the video you are watching when you swipe down because you want to check the notification you just got.....
Yeah, I did that, it works well. I left a negative review with them in hopes that maybe it'll help them make this more of a togglable feature instead... Doubt it'll work, but I did try!
Just use the youtube mobile website (yeah sure it's clunky but far less annoying), revanced or newpipe if you wanna use youtube that badly.
Oh those people using un m0ddеd уt cliеnts, my heart bleeds for you
Ads on the RUclips tv app have become so bad and frequent that I don't watch it any more.
That's great! ;-)
2:47 waiting for the rtx 50-50
RTX gamba
I heard it's only so-so
Might happen, might not. Could go either way
I've had it with you RUclips. Im going full adblock now
I have uninstalled the yt updates multiple times and every time i open it again after some time its the latest shit 💩. Why google why ?
What they should know is never mess with the user's muscle memory.
Perfectly timed considering they just rolled back the extremely buggy new miniplayer which had a tendency to put the minimized video off-screen just because.
God, I've never used Newpipe as much as last month.
Odd... I've literally just had an update to the RUclips app yesterday and yet I still have the buggy new miniplayer going off-screen to the right and videos not unpausing except when in full-screen
Are you on iPhone perhaps? 🤔
@@dftfire
No, Android. The rollback came yesterday. A surprise for sure, but a welcome one.
@@Alias_Anybody Me too. But I'm not seeing the rollback on my Android phone yet 🤔🤷🏻♂️
I swear to god if RUclips does this, im using 3rd party youtube clients
RUclips is becoming greedy day by day
@0:20 this change frustrates me.
youtube is currently on some dumbass bend to add features that gets in the way for what youtube really is .. i hate all those new scroll and swipe features. they are the dumbest thing ive ever seen happen to this app, i was a master of knowing where in the video i was if i wanted to re-watch a specific part, but no longer does it matter where to point at the time line.. cause its not really there any more.. its just a swipe to scroll video feature now .. i cant beleieve they've seriously removed it .. i have to do so much more now to get any where and when ever you RELEASE the search it ofc sticks to chapters, chapters are also being forced onto your videos and every time you have to deselect it in the settings for the video when you upload videos.. its so annoying having to setup the same settings each and every single time when you upload videos. youtube is going downhill again, remember how they did that years ago? update after update messed the site up and changed everything, untill it finally came back around ..well..get ready for round two, cause someone at youtube needs to fix something that isnt broken to seem important and get payed .. like those damn politicians making new regulations and laws instead ofjust adapting the ones we already have to fit modern times ..
Don't forget the youtube search not working at all, some videos can't be found even if you type in word for word the damn video title, and after the first two results, the videos that are shown are completely unrelated.
Google has an innate talent at making things worse
Am I going insane/becoming schizophrenic or has the world devolved into complete and utter nonsense
Unfortunately no, you have not gone insane. The world *has Definitely* gone to shit.
Feels like we're getting closer and closer to the Fallout timeline.
Not good.
I already went insane, now I'm taking people with me. Fuck me running: oh the snap is just in a movie surely we can't fuck shit up more than we did before. Oh surely we got the braindamaged levels of stupidity out of out of our system. Wow I was so hilariously wrong.
no the majority of people are normal. are you jut referring to the women setting up their camera phones to film their meltdowns?
Welcome to the club Kaczynski
Not the world, just the US
I had that for 3 days and it was absolutely horrific. Couldn't watch RUclips bc I would always swap to a next video and when I went back to the video I was watching, the progress wasn't saved. And I always had autoplay off and still have, but bc of that "experiment " a random video would always start after the video I was watching ended.
3:47 this image will be used elsewhere in 30 years
Where?
@@hacoberthejacober3345 time will tell.
This would make me watch youtube in the browser as desktop
OpenAI has blocked the actually useful GPT behind pay wall. The problem though, is that their product isn’t yet indispensable, so why should anyone pay for it. They could have so much more data, if they increased their user base. I think they rushed too quickly to monetize it. The general population isn’t going to bother paying for something they don’t know they need.
Yep. People try the free version, see it making stupid mistakes and making shit up and they'll assume the premium version will also have the same problems.
Today I learned that swipe up makes the video Fullscreen. Just in time before RUclips will replace it
5:50 It's called the Dumbledore class of weird confusing sentences.
Swiping changes have manifested a bug for me, if i swipe in any direction the current video still keeps playing but is moved to right, outside of the screen and if i somehow manage to bring it back and pause it, it will not start playing again.
Yeah, the new floating miniplayer broke the video unpausing. Hopefully they'll revert the change soon 🙏🏻
Third party youtube client actually allowed swipe up for volume and brightness adjustment
NewPipe?
RUclips: You know what they say, "if it ain't broke, fuck it up".
Literally everyone: Please. Please stop making your platform the worst it can possibly be...
Regarding RUclips premium, I'm only going to put up with a certain bit more of price increases, after which I will just use RUclips on my phone through Firefox with Ublock Origin and the same on my pc connected to my TV. They can *&%@ right off if the price goes much higher.
It's horrible, I can swipe down my notifications bar without changing the video...
The department of government efficiency is one thing. But calling it doge is putrid.
I didnt even realize the first 5 times i heard it because my brain refused to acknowledge such a thing.
I wish I could explain the stupidity of the things going on to my family but they are too old to fully understand how stupid these decisions really are
@Finalizor or your just too dense to understand
Doge is the acronym. Deal with it.
@@sonicthehedgehog1606 rude
Please RUclips nooooo. Someone needs to bring back an OG RUclips.
I've decided I absolutely hate hearing about politics after this past election, and while I love these videos, I stopped it the moment that segment started.
You are so cool
politics in general is just tiring.
@@gaeborg thanks, you too