YouTube now suggests new content by colour

So, instead of getting the ability to search for videos properly, with negative search terms, user defined video length spans, exact dates, sort by reverse date order etc... we get ambient mode and color search? Can someone please, for the sake of humanity and my sanity, erase this company and its parent from the planet.

With all the absurd turns YouTube and Google have taken, I've been looking at this for five minutes trying to figure out if this is a shitpost

Sounds like a new and inventive way for them to push sponsored content on you but make it seem like you had some choice in the matter

There are millions of youtube videos uploaded every single day. Why do I always get the exact same stuff in my recommendations? And why does YouTube shorts keep playing the same clips over and over again? Even the ones I disliked.

I honestly cannot envision a scenario in which I would want something like this from YouTube.

If you ever needed proof they dont know what they are doing this is it...

Color is so stupid. Who the fuck cares what color the video is. Couldve used this to actual good like pick three minor subjects from the video and ask me if im interested in more of those. That would be awesome. And I know they have that data.

That is stupid. I wish it would just let me block channels for real in search. Also, I wonder how that works if you’re colorblind?

If I want something news related, that doesn’t mean I want to see Fox News or other random right wing nutjobs who scream into the camera about “wokeism” every day for 4 hours.

The recommendation algo is so bad they are testing it against a random bullshit generator....

Holy crap, the amount of hate in here, and no actual description of what it does. It's essentially your normal home feed, but only the videos with thumbnails of the selected color. It's also way over at the right of the home feed filters, so it isn't like it's being shoved down your throats.

Has anyone else noticed that if a video says 'like and subscribe' the subscribe button does a little animation to draw your eye to it?

Really wish there was a better way to host videos that doesn't require a multibillion dollar company's backing

Probably another method of gathering user data for their AI training models.

I no longer think that big media corporations are doing stupid things for no reason because they're dumb

I think they do stupid things because they want another way to train their dumb AI and we're all too dumb, mindless and powerless to say or do anything about it all.

It's crazy when you think about it ... humanity is degrading itself from all corners just to raise an idiot AI child that will be just as messed up as we are.

I just used it and I thought it was kind of cute. It’s obviously “useless”, but as a small (I assume temporary) change I thought it was interesting to see how different “genres” of videos tend to color code themselves in the thumbnail.

I’m all for small, fun little things in websites. Like anytime google has an interactive daily theme

This is a data collection strategy, not a feature

I like algorithms giving me suggestions in all sorts of ways, but not shady ones. None of the people around me seem to mind, but I worry about a company like Google strongly influencing what information we consume. Even if they didn't use this influence, it's dangerous to have them in the position where they could.

I wonder if they are doing something worse and just overshadowing it with this weird change. Like we are using your data for training AI with no opt out BUT look at this random color picker! Don't mind the first part, LOOK! COLORS!

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That’ll work great. More SEO to pigeonhole videos that will be abused by creators.

...okay.

Use Freetube, people.

Wait that's supposed to be for suggesting videos? When I first saw it I thought it was just for customizing the look of the feed and was very disappointed that it changed basically nothing.

this is beyond jumping the shark, this is a whole new category of stupid

it's worse than musk-esque stupidity, because clearly there's thought and research behind this, it's all just incredibly cynical and demeaning to the human race

Never even looked at the home tab before, when I go there it just says watch history is off lol

Seems like an interesting spin on what is basically ’random’. Probably a decent way to get content in front of users that might be outside their normal recommendations.

Is it some essential new feature, no, it’s just a bit of fun to find some new content.

Youtube seems to base my suggestions on shoots wall of videos with a shotgun style of recommendations.

I do everything in my power to stop Google from tracking me, but when I'm watching youtube videos on youtube, it should be able to gifure itself out.

And "don't recommend this video to me, I don't like it" does nothing. Just to see how long it will keep this up, I keep telling it I don't want to see let's play videos of star trek online. But it sure wants me to see them, dozens of them, daily, sometimes recommending the same video I already told it not to.

And its really been pushing me to watch right-wing conspiracy videos and flat earth videos after whatever I just purposefully clicked on, despite most of my content views being future Sci fi with either apocalyptic levels of devastation on galactic scales, or "post-scarcity utopia where energy is virtually limitless and energy/matter manipulation is easy peasy, usually liberally peppered with anti-capitalist and progressive themes"

And of course "female leads bad because feeeemale".

their good devs and engineers have left

Is this yet another "make something new bs feature to get a promotion" at google?

But why tho? To know your favorite color now?

Seems great for giving more options for people who want this. I know a few neurodiverse people who would love something like this.

Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it's bad.

So this is the pattern of the typical youtube consumer, mindless browsing?

Who asked for this?

This would've been a great idea as a comedy sketch

I just want the videos i've subscribed for to actually show up in my sub feed. That's really it, man.

People are Google are being paid upwards of 200-300k a year to do this. It's a prime example of doing something just to fulfill your quota on the kanban board

I have questions

lmao

I see a lot of people complaini gbhere, and, admitting that most of you might have Androi based phones, I'd urge you to install Youtube Revanced, they have a Github : https://github.com/NoName-exe/revanced-extended

Would someone please tell YouTube that gradients are not colors.

Wtf

Ah, a fellow "Cracking the Cryptic" lover, I see.

Lol I’ve always wanted to be able to find videos that contain red, green or blue

Fortunately the other colors don’t interest me

Sees CTC video

Ah, a fellow man of culture I see...

I picked charmander.

Hello fellow Cracking the Cryptic enjoyer

A coordinated effort to stop visiting them until certain features are included, or certain changes made would be glorious, however I just don't see it happening

There's a lot of basic config/features YT needs. I'm a paying customer also. (YT premium family)

Like as a simple example. I don't want to watch shorts. I can X the shorts bar away for 30 days at a time but it just comes back. Why can't I disable shorts in settings permanently? (I mean I know why)

I want to sort channel videos by date, oldest to newest because the content I watch is longer form and generally follows a timeline of events that I want to watch in order.

1. that is all but impossible without manually creating playlists and adding videos in the order you want (a real pita)

2. I cannot easily get back to watch the next video in that series. Doing the above helps, but there's no pick up where you left off. There's some BS continue the video you were in the middle of featuring paywalled in premium that I find mildly helpful but most times if I bail on a video I'm done with it I don't want a reminder/easy continue tile for it.

There's lots more around detailed searching...

Gotta respect that

Quackery has gone digital, baby!

I found myself frantically tapping on the x on your screenshot before I remembered I was on lemmy... I am still too angry at youtube (and myself) for the time I have wasted on shorts to try out anything new it suggests. Plus it tries to recommend right wing crackpot youtubers to me everybso often which is really annoying. /rant

Ah yes, blue video mood

I don't mind them providing it as a feature because maybe someone has a use case here but I have a problem with them promoting it. Such a niche idea.

Promotion-packet driven development

Ok, you know what, maybe those YouTube layoffs were actually warranted...

I already suspected they did this considering how every single element of videos suggested to me based on what I regularly watch covers the same content, is in the same format, has people on camera that look and sound exactly the same, the sets are similar, the intros and outros are similar, even down to what's on someone's shelf in the background is sometimes identical. The overall color tone is just another thing the AI can reference with other videos.

How about astronomy but with a little more penis please 🙏?

If YT wants to do aesthetic stuff, why not bring back custom channel backgrounds? Or better yet, add more site-wide themes like dark mode.

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