@arstechnica with no skip-scenes, why not hovering over the thumbnail/preview when seaching (won't work with those suggested videos)
but some do prevent previewing their's, it can CC-caption &un/-mute too, just: mostly subtitles in only on language
saves seconds anyway in watching or not scrolling through its comments, not yet to fav. &it can rewind by the mouse at the bar, not sure how mobiles be handling that?
@arstechnica People greatly overestimate Youtube's ability to stop or get people to stop unofficially accessing the content from the platform. As long as you can access on the browser without logging in it will always be possible in some form, and let's face it logged out access is paramount for YouTube to maintain popularity.
Google actually has the means to close off their mobile APIs, because trusted computing has completely taken over the mobile world, this would just leave the web browser version of YouTube wide open...
And then they could hit us with something like requiring a high security level of widevine to view higher resolutions, embedding ads in the video stream, or heck maybe they'll bring back web integrity and bully others into adopting it so they get a "usable" YouTube experience
Microsoft has actually opened up this possibility for them in a couple years thanks to windows 11 requiring TPMs to be turned on
We're talking a 65% attack on the web here
Sure nothing is unbreakable, but nobody's gonna torrent random YouTube videos, so the capacity to make the experience unbearable is there
@arstechnica Yup. And with one browser choice (out of the box - no reconfiguring) plus one ad-blocker extension, I never see them anyway. No idea what people are so stressed about :)
@arstechnica Curious if within 5 years we'll see the news about browsers being limited to 1080p and everything above available only in proprietary client. For the sake of the user experience, of course.
Everything can happen in mobile-first world.
@arstechnica Curious if within 5 years we'll see the news about browsers being limited to 1080p and everything above available only in proprietary client. For the sake of the user experience, of course.
Everything can happen in mobile-first world.
@arstechnica This is probably a good time to point out that @libretube is an entirely free way to watch youtube videos without ads and trackers and all that crap.
@arstechnica Yeah... That is NOT going to happen. I am down to 1 or 2 use cases (channels) I check on, usually related to SpaceX. Otherwise I am avoiding YouTube (or working around their AD Block blocking).