- 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.
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Name a better duo than tech compaines and repackaging old features to sell them as “new”
Google and killing products
Microsoft and a bizarre amount of backwards compatibility
Aren’t shorts random already? What a useless feature
Random video (that has the highest relative monitization values for YouTube)
It’s just a Skinner’s Box for rats but for teens
Skinner Box For Teens is a good band name.
That also describes Tiktok now, I think?
Graphic design is my passionINTO IT
Too drunk right now or I’d shop in a small hand holding a cellphone with a tiktok logo on the sceen bumping into a big red button that says “DOPAMINE” above it. Maybe tomorrow.
The day I have so little will to get off my ass that I need to hit a button made by youtube to force feed me random entertainment is the day someone needs to forcibly take my internet connection away from me.
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.
dont click its a virus
The article link?
I"m remarking on the “culture” of the internet users that if you introduce a new button they may not click it out of ignorance.
Gotcha
So only shorts are delivered? Who not “normal” videos as well/instead?
Maybe because shorts are short and un-seekable, so more “engagement”.
What’s un-seekable
I find myself watching a lot of shorts these days but I’d prefer if it was a separate app or function. Sometimes I want long format and not to be inundated with smaller thumbnails or in some cases stretched out oversized portrait thumbnails taking up the whole screen
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!
It will probably be something from trending that has great ad value
Random? Yeah, I don’t think so. I’ve seen the absolute garbage YT’s algorithm tries to smear in front of my eyes - I enter YT through a bookmark so I can avoid having to see that crap.
The Pirate Bay did this with the “I’m feeling lucky” button, how many years ago?
I thought Google started the I’m feeling lucky button 8n 2001. Does the pirate Bay one predate that?
Wouldn’t surprise me!
