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Venting on recent YouTube app update on Android

1 pointsby 0xfaded3 months ago
Is anyone else annoyed by the recent changes to the android YouTube app where tapping on a video now dumps you into tiktok mode, where swiping up plays the next video instead of un-hiding the back button? Or frustrated that now to get a video into full screen mode you now need to first hit the &quot;small-screen&quot; button to get to the video details page, before you can finally tap the &quot;full-screen&quot; button? Or noticed that seemingly to ease the pain of viewing landscape videos, there is now 3x more portrait content, and the option to &quot;show less shorts&quot; has magically disappeared?<p>Where are the YouTube product managers? What are your OKRs? Was the assumption that if tiktok was banned people would put up and forget long form content ever existed?<p>For one I&#x27;m now using Firefox mobile, but my guess is that the web UI is also due for a lobotomy. Guess it&#x27;s time to move on to more specialized platforms. Reminds me how google news was once good, does anyone still use that?

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