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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by Arainach on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @11:04PM (#46054081)
This is nonsense. Among other things, the YouTube app on Apple TV is superior to the one on Android TV. No loud startup sound, the back button exits the app rather than popping up a menu asking "if I'm sure" or if I want to go to a screensaver mode - clean straightforward UI.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by gessha on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @11:54PM (#46054316)
I guess they just hate their users lmao
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by atty on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:46AM (#46054518)
Never ascribe to malice what can be sufficiently explained by incompetence. And i think it’s fair to say the best and brightest at Google aren’t turning their attention to YouTube lately. Except maybe to make training datasets for Gemini N+1 :)
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by jacquesm on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:08AM (#46054628)
In the case of industry giants malice should be assumed.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by hulitu on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @03:08AM (#46055232)
> Never ascribe to malice what can be sufficiently explained by incompetence.

We were talking about Google here. (you know, former search engine, don't be evil)

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by immibis on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:50AM (#46055849)
Can malice be emergent behaviour?
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by a96 on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @06:20AM (#46056309)
Well, psychopathy is an inherent feature of corporations. I wouldn't be surprised it malice will quickly develop where that appears profitable.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by hylaride on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:25AM (#46057669)
Their customers are advertisers, not users. By the looks of things they love them.
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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F... by ashdksnndck on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:15AM (#46055663)
> the back button exits the app rather than popping up a menu asking "if I'm sure”

YouTube did push a version of the Apple TV app that tried this, but it would cause the app to crash/black screen, no joke. They reverted it.

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