vk6flab ,
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YouTube keeps making things worse.

A few months ago they required that you have a watch history to display the homepage.

This week they're showing up next popups even when you have autoplay turned off.

Using an Apple TV I probably watch more YouTube than any other platform and was given a gift of a premium subscription. It removed all ads, gave me YouTube music, but the shitty experiments continue and there's no way to tell YouTube to sod off.

I've yet to find an alternative, but I'm looking..

jeena ,
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On Android TV I'm using SmartTube with Sponsor Block.

SlakrHakr ,

What a strange title. Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change

woelkchen ,
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Immediately biases the reader before any actual information is given about the change

As someone who has the "pleasure" to be selected as beta tester for YouTube changes all the time, I fully agree with the headline because I also have immediate bias when they change something. Every single time it has been awful and more often than not I get outright broken changes which is why I have a user agent changer installed to switch to an ancient Edge user agent when affected because YT's legacy UI often doesn't get the same changes.

Also, I'm a YT Premium subscriber. I'm not paying to be a beta tester.

danc4498 ,

Maybe by setting the expectation that the user will hate the update, when it becomes available to everyone it won’t be as bad as expected and thus more easily accepted.

InRlyehDreaming ,

IDK, seems like a lot of extra work when they could just not make a dogshit UI in the first place.

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