Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F...
by paperpunk on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @03:49AM
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Your comment is past tense - does that mean they’ve stopped doing this? Please, Lord. I had to set my ATV to go to screensaver in a ridiculously short amount of time to preempt the YouTube one.
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F...
by zimpenfish on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:24AM
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From what I've seen recently, they have stopped - I get Snoopy (current screensaver of choice) every time, no matter what app is running.
(Although it's on a 5 minute timer which might be short enough to pre-empt everything else.)
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F...
by electroly on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:56PM
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It was in place for a couple of days, tops, before they reverted it. The backlash was immense and immediate. And with good reason: in addition to the obvious reasons why it sucked, the YouTube screensavers just looked terrible. I couldn't believe how bad they were.
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been F...
by MBCook on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:26AM
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YES. That was HORRIBLE. Thankfully that only lasted like a day or two.
The fact that they would ever think that was possibly an OK thing to do though shows you how brain dead they are.
Any other app, you leave a video paused, the OS screensaver will come on. Those beautiful, aerial screensavers that are better than any screensaver I've ever seen in all my decades of working with computers. So of course the Youtube app had to block them with their own shitty variant. They have no taste and no respect.