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YouTube now suggests new content by colour (szmer.info)
submitted 10 months ago by nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 127 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 89 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It is not, there are actual colour categories at the top of the page which allow you to filter by thumbnails. This is what the Red page looks like for me:

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't have the official app, so I choose to pretend this is a shitpost.

Haha A++ shitpost

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In my defence I use Revanced and not Newpipe only because I like to have my subscriptions and watchlist synced up between devices

[–] OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I'm really disappointed, was expecting all red videos to be those cringey red arrows pointing at irrelevant things.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Does that come with app update? I still have normal categories up there:

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Google AB tests every tiny detail so you might not see it.

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have 19.03.35 Revanced; may be a regional trial?

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have the official unmodded YouTube app v. 18.46.41.

Anyway, it would probably show up since it's not a client-side thing. Could be a regional thing. Or just random testing.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago

Why do you have the official app? I can never go back to normal youtube with all the in your face ads. Soon I'll stop using pixel phones if Google doesn't stop forcing me to buy google drive/photos subscription.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I saw it yesterday and thought I had brain damage for a minute.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

You interacted with it, which means some ux designer somewhere is going to see the metrics and get encouraged

[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope, I've seen it myself. Cannot imagine a more useless feature.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Cannot imagine a more useless feature.

Especially useless for us colorblind people...

[–] GameWarrior@discuss.online 5 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately it is not…