@TeamYouTube responds later that they will reconsider:
> Really appreciate your response, and can see how sorting by upload date is helpful when tracking breaking news. We're sharing this feedback live with our product team
Yes YouTube, I have my browser set to French, but I read and understand English perfectly fine, please stop badly translating English video titles (or force-enabling french auto-dub, it's even worse).
At least I found an extension for this a couple of days ago :
Ive been trying to learn a new language and this feature is awful.
It constantly either translates language-learning videos entirely into english or into the language i'm trying to learn. Despite all settings on my account being set to english, if I include any non-english text in my search query that is enough to get youtube to translate all videos out of english. When it does this, there is seemingly no built-in feature to change this back, other than through addons. And there isn't even an indication that conveys the fact the video title and description are auto-translated, other than maybe i recognize the channel and can tell that its supposed to be in another language.
And part of me thinks, "maybe once i learn enough, such a feature could maybe be helpful in learning a language" But every video ive seen so far thats auto-translated into English is done so quite badly and confusingly. I can't trust the translation.
Their AppleTV app is super buggy with same bugs for years. Most annoyingly it stars playing same video I already watched a while ago after resuming the device from sleep. It also often zooms-in 4k content after resuming, you have to kill the app to fix it.
It often resumes video at a random location after you paused it, you have to manually rewind it.
Some of these bugs are like boomerang, they come back after a year or so.
From UI perspective, they continue to hide the "recently updated" section, which should list your subscribed content only, and slowly turn it into a TikTok like app, serving you the content they think you need to watch, not the content you subscribed to.
What’s even the point of this? Is showing random videos really driving up engagement more than surfacing the video I want to watch? This was shocking to me when I first came across it
Yes. They know that most humans typically have poor impulse control, and are easily pulled off task and will fall into an addicting and lucrative loop. Makes perfect sense to show random unrelated shit.
Am I crazy or is "sort by (upload) date" or "sort by most recent" by far the most useful option on most sites that you want to use more than once? (If not the only useful option).
The `sp` URL parameter for sorting by upload date still works, so I've added an option to restore the Upload date filter to Control Panel for YouTube:
https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/releases/...
https://xcancel.com/TeamYouTube/status/2009744367834022320#m
@TeamYouTube responds later that they will reconsider:
> Really appreciate your response, and can see how sorting by upload date is helpful when tracking breaking news. We're sharing this feedback live with our product team
Kinda gross
- how important YouTube is in the real world and
- how disconnected the "Product Team" is, by inference from this reply.
- anyone got a list of youtube downgrades from the last decade?
- I got one, "removed the dislike counts"
Forced translations.
Yes YouTube, I have my browser set to French, but I read and understand English perfectly fine, please stop badly translating English video titles (or force-enabling french auto-dub, it's even worse).
At least I found an extension for this a couple of days ago :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-tr...
Ive been trying to learn a new language and this feature is awful.
It constantly either translates language-learning videos entirely into english or into the language i'm trying to learn. Despite all settings on my account being set to english, if I include any non-english text in my search query that is enough to get youtube to translate all videos out of english. When it does this, there is seemingly no built-in feature to change this back, other than through addons. And there isn't even an indication that conveys the fact the video title and description are auto-translated, other than maybe i recognize the channel and can tell that its supposed to be in another language.
And part of me thinks, "maybe once i learn enough, such a feature could maybe be helpful in learning a language" But every video ive seen so far thats auto-translated into English is done so quite badly and confusingly. I can't trust the translation.
Their AppleTV app is super buggy with same bugs for years. Most annoyingly it stars playing same video I already watched a while ago after resuming the device from sleep. It also often zooms-in 4k content after resuming, you have to kill the app to fix it.
It often resumes video at a random location after you paused it, you have to manually rewind it.
Some of these bugs are like boomerang, they come back after a year or so.
From UI perspective, they continue to hide the "recently updated" section, which should list your subscribed content only, and slowly turn it into a TikTok like app, serving you the content they think you need to watch, not the content you subscribed to.
Search results is by far the biggest one. Now after 3-4 relevant results it just shows shorts and other recommended content
What’s even the point of this? Is showing random videos really driving up engagement more than surfacing the video I want to watch? This was shocking to me when I first came across it
Yes. They know that most humans typically have poor impulse control, and are easily pulled off task and will fall into an addicting and lucrative loop. Makes perfect sense to show random unrelated shit.
Everything is worse now compared to 5-10 years ago.
Search, the ui, recommendations, shorts, all the new ai features (dubbing, translations, upscaling).
Am I crazy or is "sort by (upload) date" or "sort by most recent" by far the most useful option on most sites that you want to use more than once? (If not the only useful option).
Let me guess, they're seeing less "engagement" with AI slop since people were using this to filter them out so they removed it?
Youtube has been getting worse and worse since the new CEO
Its still there for me, HK IP.