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YouTube copied a lot of features from pornhub like the heatmap of the most watched parts of a video.

• thaufeki 4y ago
  Also, these sites had a play on hovering over a video thumbnail feature that youtube copied
  • hackernewds 4y ago
    To be fair these seem like naturally intuitive and simple ideas
    • hammock 4y ago
      It's actually patented by a porn site and YouTube pays them for the licensed use of it
      • groffee 4y ago
        Source? I don't see any possible way a thumbnail playing on hover is patentable.
        • hammock 4y ago
          Can’t find a source for my actual claim but here is a similar patent that Google claimed themselves: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9363579B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US9363579B2/en
    • mrguyorama 4y ago
      It was so natural and intuitive that Youtube's version STILL doesn't compare to how good, fast, seemless, and unintrusive it is done on the porn sites, years later.
    • rudasn 4y ago
      ...once someone else had thought about it and executed them in an intuive manner
      • alenrozac 4y ago
        ...like Google Earth?
        • RF_Savage 4y ago
          Which was Googles version of NASA WorldWind?
          • SllX 4y ago
            Keyhole EarthViewer predates WorldWind and is what became Google Earth after Google acquired Keyhole.
            • RF_Savage 4y ago
              Cool, did not know that. Apparently the idea was less novel than I thought.
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        • mtmail 4y ago
          Terravision existed prior (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infringement/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infr...)
          • SllX 4y ago
            They probably got it from Snow Crash. The oldest surviving globes of the known world date back to 1492 according to Wikipedia and the Greeks probably created their own variations a few millennia ago. Turtles, turtles, turtles! All the way down.
    • flappyeagle 4y ago
      you just described the definition of good design
    • deleted 4y ago
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    • tomger 4y ago
      ... like searching for text on the internet
• collegeburner 4y ago
  Dang I saw that was a new feature but didn't know they'd actually started borrowing features from porn sites. What the heck is the youtube team doing that they're creating useful features slower than that sort of site?
  • bsder 4y ago
    Porn has generally been a frontrunner of tech. If anything, that has slowed down recently. Porn was the first to adopt portable cameras. VHS. DVDs. Credit card payments for online. Chat. Webcams. VR. 4K (not the best idea). etc. For many years, the Adult Entertainment Expo and CES were held simultaneously in Vegas. And the AES tech talks were often better as CES tended to blur the line between marketing and tech while at AES the marketing/sales and tech were ... more strongly delineated. Oh, hey, look at that. For 2023, they're back to being on the same date. Presumably attendance at both is sufficiently off that they needed to consolidate again.
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  • l33t233372 4y ago
    I take issue with that assessment. Porn sites exist in a fiercely competitive environment AND they are profitable. These are two features that Youtube lacks and their presence on porn sites reflects (at least partially) favorably on their engineering quality/innovation.
    • smabie 4y ago
      Yep, totally agree. porn sites exist in an highly adverse environment.
    • collegeburner 4y ago
      interesting i had the impression most sites were controlled by a very few companies. but tbh i can't say i know much about the space.
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• pestatije 4y ago
  oh is that it?...i always wondered...thx for mentioning