- YouTube is testing a new video button on its app, allowing users to easily access random Shorts content based on their suggestions.
- Additional features of this play button are currently unknown, but it is likely to pull content based on watch history, subscribed creators, and video likes.
- The feature is being tested with a limited number of people and does not appear to be part of an official YouTube experiment.
I’m at the stage now where I view everything Google does with great cynicism and suspicion.
And it’s fairly obvious how that would work here. The videos won’t be “random”, they’ll specifically be videos that are known to keep people on the platform longer.
A “gimme a discount facebook feed” if you will.
Random video (that has the highest relative monitization values for YouTube)
“random” videos
Good timing.
I just started using Invidious.
I really wish YouTube would quit trying to make shorts happen.
I like them. I watch a lot of long videos (30 - 90 minutes) so it’s nice to just watch really short stuff from time to time.
I don’t mind videos that are exactly as long as they need to be, they can be 1 minute or 1 hour or whatever. But personally I don’t need skinny portrait mode and no seeking.
Everyone’s different. I’ve watched videos on shorts that I would never click to watch and I really enjoyed them.
Seeking is avaliable on the mobile app. You can also do this trick on desktop Firefox where you click the picture-in-picture button and press back or forward to jump 5 seconds.
As someone with my watch history off, it’ll be interesting if this button even shows.
I have no subscriptions, no history, and no tracking of any kind enabled. If this shows a recommendation related to my watch history, that’d shine a light on what those privacy controls really do.
If you see it you’ll have to report back!
Is there any to get notified about comments like this without commenting?
Not to my knowledge. Reddit had bots for that but lemmy is still getting its sea legs. I might get a notification because I posted the article but I might not too.
It will probably be something from trending that has great ad value
Fail #1, you downloaded the YouTube App.
Choose a different front end or use a desktop.People don’t usually download the YouTube apps, the most common way to get it is by forgetting to degoogle a phone.
Just started using invidious. Is it common for subscriptions to be out of date for a couple of days?
There’s a video posted nov 2 and just showed up today in subscription menu. It did show up when I clicked on the channel.
Not sure about that. I use NewPipe on Android and the regular YouTube site on Desktop with Firefox/uBlock Origin.
