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To save a search: "Ambient mode uses a lighting effect to make watching videos in Dark theme more immersive, by casting gentle colors from the video, into your
by asvitkine 4y ago
To save a search:
"Ambient mode uses a lighting effect to make watching videos in Dark theme more immersive, by casting gentle colors from the video, into your screen's background."
- tough 4y agoThey went for copying philips ambient lights on tv's but with software, what could go worng
- shrewduser 4y agooh i saw this happen to me the other day, i was wondering if it was a new youtube feature or something. can't say i care for it.
- LanternLight83 4y agoJust noticed it recently too, though it might have been an update to the stylus theme I use, I actually quite like it
- qotgalaxy 4y ago[dead]
- bee_rider 4y agoNeat idea, I bet the intern had fun implementing it, why was it on by default?
- tablespoon 4y ago> Neat idea, I bet the intern had fun implementing it, why was it on by default? Total speculation, but Firefox seems to be pushing out a lot of UI gimmicks. Maybe they're trying to drum up interest in the browser that way, since they seem intent on killing many of their other differentiators.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- Georgelemental 4y agoThis is a YouTube feature, not a Firefox one.
- CyanBird 4y agoBecause the target audience for the feature is not tech savvy people but common users whom won't know it exists until it is shown to them/might be intimidated to delve onto FF settings If you are tech savvy, you are then expected to be able to "bear the burden" of turning the feature off if it bothers you
- oarsinsync 4y ago> might be intimidated to delve onto FF settings It’s a YouTube setting, not a Firefox setting.
- devilbunny 4y agoHell, I'm tech savvy - not a tech worker, but you'd better believe that you want me to be your end-user contact, I know a hell of a lot more than the people I work with - and I didn't even know this was an option. I'm not afraid of fixing FF settings, done it plenty of times. It's on by default. If someone who can install OpenBSD and make it a router for DSL over PPPoE in 2001 (side job) doesn't even know it exists and eats cycles [i.e., a "prosumer", not an expert, but not too far below a new hire and well beyond the masses), it's a bad idea. I don't have time to stay up on every way that people want to eat my electricity. I do know that YouTube spins up the fan on my iMac with disturbing regularity in a way that videos from alternative sources do not. So it's not the decoding.
- warent 4y agoThis seems unnecessarily passive aggressive. Everyone makes mistakes or bugs, intern or not. It makes no sense to get this salty about basic human error. Also there's nothing wrong with implementing minor UX enhancements. If anything redirect the frustration to the leadership that doesn't prioritize fixing these kinds of errors.
- TechBro8615 4y agoIt's not unreasonable to hold YouTube devs and QA engineers to a higher standard than everyone else who doesn't work for a ~trillion dollar corporation or deploy code that runs on billions of devices.
- alluro2 4y agoI don't think there's any error to fix. It's a feature - casting light from the video onto the UI, using JS, surely takes that amount of CPU. The question of why it is on by default stands - because it's little bit of eye candy, vs people's laptop batteries, CPU that could have been used to get other stuff done faster - so also their time, device thermals etc... I don't think it's just unnecessarily salty to point out how the choice to turn this on by default should have been more nuanced and thought through.
- tempestn 4y agoHow much can websites determine about the power of the device they're running on? Obviously it'd be a security issue for them to know too much, but it would be nice to be able to progressively enhance the experience for more powerful devices that can handle it, beyond just mobile vs PC. Even just knowing whether a device was running off battery power could be useful.
- simlevesque 4y agoHere's what's available, requires permissions: - BatteryManager.charging - BatteryManager.chargingTime - BatteryManager.dischargingTime - BatteryManager.level https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BatteryManager https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BatteryMana... https://caniuse.com/?search=BatteryManager https://caniuse.com/?search=BatteryManager
- shapefrog 4y agoThey are not the intern anymore - they are senior vice president of battery draining, this feature absolutely killed it at the end of year review.
- runnerup 4y ago[flagged]
- shapefrog 4y agoFor the replier that wanted a more substantive response; my comment can be expanded on by pointing out it is ultimately a commentary on the motivations involved in the employee-manager relationship within the bureaucracy of the mega-corporation, within a society where financial success drives including but not limited to comfort, mate selection, breeding, health, longevity and day-to-day basic survival itself - factors with the importance of which has been determined by millennia of evolutionary biology. Ultimately the result can be that an employee chooses health, survival and the social status that a job title brings and ships a product or feature that they can sell to their manager as innovative / disruptive / greatness reimagined.
- rejectfinite 4y agoI really like it! Then again, I am using a real computer and not a toy.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- Dwedit 4y agoLooks like it's a Youtube feature rather than a Firefox feature?
- sicariusnoctis 4y agoThe "average color" (or whatever it is) could have been pre-computed server-side rather than tiring out the poor innocent client CPUs.
- Phiwise_ 4y agoBut then Google would be responsible for that one-time computation instead of making the clients do it billions of times.
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoThey could do it on a few clients then ship the data back to the server. If they’re resourceful those clients don’t even need to be watching the video! (they could send it and compute the output in the background of another stream)
- TeMPOraL 4y agoBut that's a distributed problem now and those use up valuable developer time, which we know is the most important resource in the world...
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoYeah, but if google solve distributed processing just imagine the cost savings elsewhere (imagine involuntarily crowdsourcing video encoding, it would save them millions)
- KeplerBoy 4y agoCouldn't this be done cheaply on the GPU?
- TingPing 4y agoThe browser isn’t the ideal place to do things “on the GPU” unless the site is designed around it.
- javajosh 4y agoTo save another search: On desktop and mobile devices: While playing a video, select the Settings button. Locate the Ambient Mode setting in the list of preferences. Toggle it to off to disable Ambient Mode for all videos on YouTube (in that browser). It's in the same popup used for video quality and playback speed.
- LegitShady 4y agoI dont have that option. firefox on windows 10.
- duttonw 4y agoonly shows up when in 'dark mode'.
- grawlinson 4y agothat is some amazingly crap UX. who the hell thought this was a good idea?
- Retric 4y agoAmbient mode is a dark mode specific feature. If you don’t use dark mode then it’s not going to do anything. Completely hiding it in normal mode isn’t the best choice, but it is somewhat understandable.
- LegitShady 4y agothis makes sense. I stopped doing per site dark mode and just use the darkreader extension to make everything dark mode, so the option never appears.
- deafpolygon 4y agoIn dark mode. Don't see it. Windows 11, Edge and Firefox.
- MikusR 4y ago
- tmtvl 4y agoAs I don't use edgelord mode I'm guessing I don't have to worry about it.
- musicale 4y ago> make watching videos in Dark theme more immersive the best way to make youtube videos more immersive is to block obnoxious advertisements, remove useless algorithm-driven recommendations, and delete the comment section
- JohnFen 4y agoThank you! I had no idea this was a thing YouTube did.