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Re:Developer UX at Google by sokoloff on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:48AM (#14909734)
Core use case:

As a visitor, I want to watch a video that someone linked.

The chance that I first want to see a non-skippable video (or video skippable only after 5 seconds) is vanishingly small yet that's what the YouTube UX frequently provides.

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Re:Developer UX at Google by jaymzcampbell on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:57AM (#14909766)
I know where your coming from because this annoys me when I share videos too, but this is the choice of the video creator. So although YouTube are facilitating it, I'm not sure it's their "fault" if users choose to set a particular ad format (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2467968?hl=en-GB) - they could have it set to banners instead of skippables for instance.
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Re:Developer UX at Google by kough on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:59AM (#14909777)
Oh that sounds like a bug, you should report it – they'll probably fix it for a HN commenter!
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Re:Developer UX at Google by sokoloff on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:11AM (#14909842)
Snark noted; my claim was simply that it provides a poor user experience, not that it was unintentional.
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