Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
by notassigned on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:15AM
(#24223472)
It really bothers me how YouTube updated the mobile UI so that ads can now change the size of the player window to take up most of the vertical space and can require more than one tap just to get back to the video/comments.
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Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
by overlordalex on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:50AM
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What really grinds my gears about the ad experience on mobile is how some ads will take over the comment section as well. Meaning that if you were reading a comment or a comment thread, the entire context is lost when an add pops up over it.
Once the ad is over you have to re-enter the comments, scroll back down to where you were, enter the chain, scroll down to where you were reading...
It's a torturous flow, but I suspect the "engagement" metrics look great on their dashboard. I can imagine a product manager somewhere is getting a raise after doubling user interaction with a single feature